The rise of Facebook

Brad Stone's front page story in yesterday's New York Times Business section contains so much of interest, I won't even try to pull excerpts.

For starters try the graphics above and below, which accompanied the story.

They show the year-by-year expansion of the site from its beginning just over five years ago to today's membership

of two hundred million people worldwide —

with the site having doubled its membership in the past eight months, up from one hundred million last August.