[michaeledge]

Personally I'm a fan of bigger font sizes. Interesting though that Facebook actually reduced their body copy down to 11px, and apparently they are doing pretty well ;)

[brandonkshepard]

Definitely also just had mentioned the same thing before reading this. But do you think that they should increase their size? I often tend to look closer to read posts and also just followed their font sizes in a similar project =\

[tomkinstinch]

Does the median Facebook user have younger eyes than the rest of the web?

A counterpoint: NYTimes.com sets their article paragraph font size at 1.5em (with a roughly equal line height).

[lukeschlather]

I'm 24 and I still even zoom NYT (though that may be just so that the article fills my view.)

[dalore]

I think facebook has more going for it than the fontsize.

[danso]

Facebook also has a lot more elements (basically, images) to deal with than an average website with significant lengths of (narrative) body text.