Waterloo Facebook network has nearly 22,000 members
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on April 29, 2007 at 02:49 PM
I don’t know how long it has been there but I just noticed Facebook added a stats option. This is pretty cool because it gives you some idea how many people are in your network, what they are up to, what events are going on, etc. I am in the University of Waterloo (where I work), University of Liverpool (where I am doing my grad work), and Kitchener (because ‘Kitchener’ cover the Waterloo Region).
I am not totally surprised but there are 22 000 members in the Waterloo group. If you take all the staff, faculty, and students (rounded up a lot to around 25 000) that is 88%. Sure there are likely some Alumni in there now but still… That is a really high percentage. Kitchener in comparison has 61 600, the region has 500 000 people in it…
In Facebook stats you can poke around at other network summaries. WLU down the road has 11 500 people, U of Toronto has 50 000, UWO nearly 30 000, and Conestoga College doesn’t even have a space.
If you have an event or message to get out to the Waterloo community, Facebook seems to have a massive chunk of your audience. Just remember, UW Events lets you pull events you post in Facebook to UW Events… if you have one in there get it over to UW Events!