That's not true. I'm pretty sure it would be topped by the nations of:
1) People that eat rice, 2) Those living below 1000ft altitude, and 3) People whose favorite color is either red or blue.<p>Oh, wait, those are all random collections of people that have nothing to do with "nations". My bad.<p>Also, it claims Facebook in 3rd at 500 million, US in 4th at 310 million; so it would have jumped into 3rd quite a while ago, making the country comparison even less relevent as a news claim. Is it really that hard just to say that Facebook now has 500 million users and leave it at that without making up a silly headline and graphic?
"[It] is a device that allows people to get together and control their own destiny..."<p>Seeing that my high school classmates have gotten fatter helps me control my own destiny how?
I shudder at the thought of a nation made up of Facebook users. It would be like a nation of People subscribers, except they'd also play inane grinding games...
My 70 year old father has a facebook account and doesn't have the slighest clue what do with it, consequently it goes unused.<p>They may 500 million accounts but they only get 150 million or less users per month. Of that, I bet 50 million of them make up the lion's share of the pageviews. 5 million are complete facebook nutters playing farmville and mobwars 24/7.<p>If Facebook is a nation of 500 million then the US is a nation of billions, if you count all the tourists and business types flying in/out.
The day Facebook monopolizes the use of force on its members? That's the day it becomes an nation.<p>It is nowhere near, no matter how many people join.