Facebook's Local Battle Abroad

Despite Facebook’s continued growth abroad, attracting over 450,000 new users a day, the site is facing some challenges in expanding in certain markets. Looking at our Facebook demographics tool, we’ve found a number of countries with decreasing activity on Facebook: Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Ireland, Kenya, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and a few others.

While the vast majority of countries are providing rapid growth for Facebook, the company is finding it increasingly challenging to fight against local social networks as BusinessWeek