Facebook is the current ideal prototype of social media. Since it opened up its network outside of college its growth has been astounding with many media stories with outrageous stats. Shel Israel decided to see if the stats were true and called up Facebook’s corporate communications folks. Here’s a smattering of what they told him.

• Over a million new registrants a week since January 2007 with a total of 35 million.
• Over half of users are outside of college.
• Average visitor stay is 20 minutes (and I know some students that sta for hours).
• Top photo sharing site on the web.

Wow!