10% Facebook Users Not Human Says New Research; Investors Concerned About 'Facebook Fatigue'

More than 10% Facebook users are not human, according to eMarketer, and with Facebook's reported users over 1.1 billion, only 889.3 million are actually human.

Of the reported 1 billion Facebook users right now, over 100 million of them are pets, brands or companies. 

According to Internet market research company, eMarketer, only 889.3 million of the 1 billion reported users are real people.

Quartz says that Facebook's claims it currently has 1.11 billion users are false, and says they will not actually reach that number of human users until at least 2014.  

The current largest growth on Facebook occurs in India, Brazil, Russia, the Middle East and Africa, with many crediting Facebook and other social media sites like Twitter with helping to organize the rebellions and protestations during the December 2010 beginnings of the "Arab Spring."

Among those countries and regions mentioned, there is expected to be 30 percent growth within the next year alone, according to the new research. 

The U.S., United Kingdom and Western Europe is seeing a lot less growth within Facebook and even though half of U.K. and U.S. citizens are Facebook users, they are spending less and less time on the social media behemoth. 

Because many in France, Italy and Germany aren't very keen on Facebook, only around 37 percent of people in Western Europe are active users of Facebook. 

However, eMarketer predicts Facebook will grown from 42.6 percent of all Internet users now, to 54.7 percent of all Internet users by 2017. 

Some more Facebook numbers included in the recently released data: 46.6 percent of people in North America are active on Facebook and over 30 percent in Latin America and Western Europe will use Facebook at least once a month; the Middle East, Asia and Africa have much lower penetration rates which is why the worldwide population percentage on Facebook is 15.4 percent.

In 2013, eMarketer predicts 63 percent of all social network users will access Facebook at least once a month. By 2017, 69.5 percent of social network users will have logged on to Facebook within the last month. In Asia, a lot of local networks had previously been in place instead of Facebook, but that's likely to change, which is why the overall percentage of social network users will rise so drastically in the coming years. 

The Financial Times recently reported that Facebook investors are worried that Facebook is no longer cool to the all-important teenager demographic. Teenagers see Facebook as outdated and lame because their parents now have accounts and can keep better track of their activity with parental controls Facebook has developed. 

While Facebook is finishing up their first year as a publicly-traded company, investors are worried about the "Facebook Fatigue" believed to be setting in with users switching to Twitter to get their news and to distract themselves during the day. 

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