![The value is in the network](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/files/2012/12/Network_Biology_Photo.jpg)
Dateline: October 4, 2012 – Facebook reaches one billion users! One billion people connected on a single platform; one-seventh of the world’s population. If you assume 40,000 BCE as the start of modern humans, it took the planet 41,804 years to reach a population level of one billion; it took