Facebook Could Be Bigger Than China By 2016

Facebook can't legally get into China, but in a few years, the social network might be bigger than the country. A new blog post from Pingdom suggests that by 2016, there might be more people with profiles on Facebook than living in China, making Facebook larger than any country in the world.

Facebook can’t legally get into China, but in a few years, the social network might be bigger than the country. A new blog post from Pingdom suggests that by 2016, there might be more people with profiles on Facebook than living in China, making Facebook larger than any country in the world.

Three years ago, Facebook’s membership passed the U.S. as the third-biggest country in the world (if the social network were its own country). Now, with more than 1 billion users, it’s inching closer to the No.

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