Toronto the Facebook Capital of the World

It's bad enough that we Torontoians think we're the center of the universe. It turns out that we have more people using Facebook here per capita, it seems.

Cough.

Busted, addicted and obsessed are three words that capture Toronto's relationship to the popular Internet site. As a city, we have more members than New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco combined. Thirteen per cent of Torontonians have signed up.
We not only have more members than any other city – 670,038 as of this week– we have more groups within the site talking about the goings on of our town.

There are forums devoted to Toronto's island airport. Others have formed to chat about last weekend's Pride festivities, or how Toronto comedy is faring. In total, there are more than 350 groups of people dedicated to discussing different aspects of the TTC – whether it's okay to eat on it, how to do gymnastics in subways and whether tickets are overpriced. There are so many groups devoted to the minutia of Toronto that the magazine Spacing recently launched an online forum called Facebook Fridays, which highlights and reviews the best pages to visit.

Um, what was that about being the centre of the universe again?

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