More Americans Are On Facebook Than Have A Passport

155.000 million Americans are on Facebook.

139.334 million Americans are employed (June 2011).

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm

TC link: http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/22/more-americans-are-on-faceb...

Love them or hate them it doesn't seem right to link to a site that just strips the content when the original is available.

That really isn't very surprising given that most people don't have a need for a passport. I can't imagine most Americans traveling out of the country within a 10 year span, whereas anyone can easily sign up with a Facebook account.

I wish it was better cited. I'm hesitant to believe some of the information. For example, it claims that 45% of people visit friends abroad because of Facebook. Perhaps people in other places (ie Europe where it is cheaper to go between countries) travel abroad regularly, but I don't know anyone in the US who has gone to another country because of Facebook.