Facebook is Huge. No, SMS Is. No...

Periodically, the XKCD comic posts these giant diagrams, of real things or virtual ones. Like this, which represents the relative size and relationship of all online communities as physical lands: Which is cool, and wow the size of Facebook sure is huge. (And yes, some of the info is a swag, but it's all plausible). Anyway, then I looked in the corner. And if that's impressive, check out how much more information voice over mobile ("Cell phones") carries. And don't forget people just talking to each other.

A good example of why we don't care about Twitter

I get messages like this from my wife all the time:

Rotated for your convenience. I often get several picturemails a day from her.

A picture says a lot. Since y'all don't have the context, its of the dog and cat /both/ on her lap in our living room. Everyone napping. No text needed, and this worked a lot better than any text could.