Comments on: What’s Up With Toronto’s Facebook Obsession?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:31:00 +0000

I agree that most of the people who use the Toronto network live no where near Toronto. It seems to be the default Ontario network.

By: P CROWE

P CROWE — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:31:30 +0000

I am one of the addicted Torontonians and I know that for myself and the majority of my friends the reason we have all migrated to it is the ease of staying connected with friends and family across this large country.
As is the case with most of my friends I have gone to school in 3 provinces and lived in 5 cities in the past 10 years. Facebook allows me to stay connected and avoid unreal long distance bills. Canada is a very large and spread-out country, Facebook brings everyone that I want in my world to one place. It allows me to communicate to them as well as share pictures and more importantly – share experiences with everyone I care about.

By: Dannie

Dannie — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:42:07 +0000

It’s cold here, not much else to do!

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:07:31 +0000

David,
You might have seen my post on this previously…so many magic Hogtown bullets on this one…
http://buzzcanuck.typepad.com/agentwildfire/2007/04/facebook_toront.html
One thing that I didn’t notice on the first go around is that there is also a fair degree of non-Toronto-ites who shack up in the Toronto network (i.e. live in Cambridge) – likely not a huge effect and perhaps similar in other places (people in Peoria I imagine join Chicago) – still an amazing Canadian juggernaut

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 23 May 2007 06:47:43 +0000

It is only in the last couple of weeks that I’ve actually ventured onto Facebook. I was expecting it to be another MySpace but have found it to be a much more “grown-up” social networking site. There are still the silly/fun groups but there also seems to a lot more serious debate going on which may be the reason for more people using it. I’m not sure that explains the Toronto effect but that’s my take on FB….

By: vito

vito — Wed, 23 May 2007 06:36:26 +0000

There was a lot of press recently by the TDSB regarding students using a FB page to criticize and “bully” a principal and the Vice principal. There was talk of banning it to minors, which as we know once you say “you can’t” it just increasing the desire. WHile not banned to students, all municipal workers are now blocked from using.

By: Mario

Mario — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:25:52 +0000

I ask the same: Why is orkut so popular in Brazil?

By: David

David — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:16:59 +0000

It probably won’t last as, if I’m not mistaken, facebook is a relatively new phenomenon in Canada.
I think the same thing happened in the major U.S. college cities before students realized that facebook addiction was unhealthy!

By: Davezilla

Davezilla — Mon, 21 May 2007 09:49:36 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me in the least. My fiancee lives there and I go to a lot of the Photoblogger events in TO (btw, that’s the other thing TO seems to have more of than anyone: photobloggers). All they talk about is Facebook and Flickr, but mainly Facebook.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 19 May 2007 05:29:33 +0000

Interesting stats! I learned something today..thanks.