The Facebook Project, Revision 1
Consider this page out of date and potentially inaccurate!
Findings
At this point in time we're still collecting data, and as a result cannot post any definitive findings or fun information.
View the results
Interesting summary of the results will go up as I find time this summer. For now, check out the raw data.
- Friends Survey
- Groups Survey
- Pictures Survey
- Messages Survey
- Meeting People and Relationships Survey
- Trust and Privacy Survey
Interesting facts to start with
- Before the changed the search protocols to prevent people like me from feeding the web site URL query strings my count for the number of undergraduate student profiles at the University of Illinois was 26,700. We have approximately 29,000 undergraduate students at the university of Illinois. Even accounting for inflation for multiple profiles, transfer students, drop outs, etc... this is somewhere around a 90% saturation rate.
| Largest Groups on the University of Illinois Facebook (04.04.2006) | Members |
| Illini Basketball Has the Best Team In the Nation!!! | 6376 |
| Chief Illiniwek Forever. | 6167 |
| The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Want to Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too | 5204 |
| Future Procrastinators of Tomorrow | 5003 |
| I Just Tried to Ford the River and My Fuckin' Oxen Died | 4955 |
| Family Guy | 4886 |
- Consider that there are about 40,000 individuals at U of I in general. Faculty and Staff profiles make up a negligible number and graduate students numbered only a few thousand when I last checked. Undergraduate profiles account for greater than 26,000 accounts – total combined with an unknown number of Alumni one can reasonably estimate in excess of 30,000 profiles on the UIllinois Facebook site. This means these aforementioned groups have as much as a fifth of the entire campus population in membership. This is an absolutely astounding number. The potential for communication is both frightening and intriguing. Note that the two largest groups are sports/school pride oriented. Peculiar elements of our generational pop culture can be seen in the other three.