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I came across an interesting article on Data Center Knowledge.  It compiled a few statistics about Facebook usage.  Here’s a quick overview:

Total users: 140 million
New users: over 600,000 per day
Users outside the US: 70%
User profiles updated: 13 million per day
Average friends: 100 per user
Photos hosted: 10 billion
Photos added: 700 million per month
Videos added: 4 million per month
Active user groups: 19 million

I showed these stats to my wife, who said “wow, that’s a lot of time wasted.” The Facebook statistics page says that 2.6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day. Calculated out, this amounts to a collective 4,947 human years being wasted every day on Facebook. If we assume it takes one minute to update your Facebook status, that amounts to almost 25 human years being wasted each day just to announce that you’re “watching tv” or “staying inside tonight” (those are the statuses displayed at the top of my Facebook news feed right now).

I decided to make a website (markthedark.com) to be a light graffiti community.  If you don’t know what light graffiti is, it’s a fun technique where you take LED (and other) lights and “draw” while the camera is taking the picture (you have to adjust your camera settings to do this).  Light graffiti is pretty fun and almost everybody that I’ve talked to has enjoyed it.

Although there are several blogs and flickr galleries on the internet where people post their art, there wasn’t any site that really serves as a community–share and see others’ artwork, talk and learn about techniques, get ideas, etc.  Right now it’s just a gallery–sort of a Digg for light graffiti.  But I’m working on adding a forum and more “best practices” info.  If you have any advice, requests, or bug reports, please email me!