Facebook Does Not Have 483 Million 'Active' Users

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Sifting through Facebook's S1 filing, DealBook's Andrew Ross Sorkin has discovered a semantic error, the social network does not have 483 million active users, but rather, more accurately, boasts 483 engaged users. "According to the company, a user is considered active if he or she 'took an action to share content or activity with his or her Facebook friends or connections via a third-party Web site that is integrated with Facebook,'" he writes, taking offense at Facebook  considering pressing a "like" button as "active. ...