Facebook just surpassed the 500 million user mark. Which raises the question, what could you get done with 500 million people?
- If everyone donated $10, you’d have $5 billion to be split up among 5 different charitable causes. Not a bad donation, right?
- You could hold a basketball tournament featuring 50 million teams (with 3 subs and 2 cheerleaders on each team) from across the world. Good luck drawing up that bracket.
- You could own the Guinness Book of World Records for events such as “Largest Water Balloon Fight”, “Most people dancing to Thriller simultaneously,” “Largest slumber party” etc. etc.
- You could build an army that would pretty much dwarf any in existence (don’t even think about it, Zuckerburg)
- You could start your own country. Oh, and you’d have the 3rd largest population in the world.
- Unlock the “WTF! Where Did All of These People Come From?” badge on foursquare.
- Assuming the average person is 5 feet, 5 inches tall, you could stack the users on top of each other, reach the moon, and then stack them going back to the moon. Then, you’d still have 75000 miles of people left, which would allow you to wrap them around the circumference of earth 3 times. Dare to check my math?
- Film a semi-decent movie, get it in theaters, and get each of these 500 million people to go see it. Average ticket price of $10 means you’d gross $5 billion on opening day. Take that, Batman.
- Throw one heckuva epic party.
- Send out a search unit for Bin Laden.
- Construct a plan to convince one of the 500 million that their life was actually a made for tv movie (a la the Truman show).
What would you do?
Original photo from Robert Scales
