Interesting Facts About Facebook

50 Facebook Facts and Figures



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<li>1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook
<li>35+ demographic represents more than 30% of the entire user base
<li>71.2 % of all USA internet users are on Facebook
<li>In 20 minutes 1,000,000 links are shared on Facebook
<li>In 20 minutes 1,484,000 event invites are posted
<li>In 20 minutes 1,323,000 photos are tagged
<li>In 20 minutes 1,851,000 status updates are entered
<li>In 20 minutes 1.972 million friend requests are accepted
<li>In 20 minutes 2,716,000 photos are uploaded
<li>In 20 minutes 2,716,000 messages are sent
<li>In 20 minutes 10.2 million comments are posted
<li>In 20 minutes 1,587,000 wall posts are written
<li>750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year�s weekend
<li>48% of young Americans said they found out about news through Facebook
<li>48% of 18 to 34 year olds check Facebook right when they wake up
<li>50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
<li>Average user has 130 friends
<li>People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
<li>There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
<li>Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
<li>Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
<li>More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
<li>More than 70 translations available on the site
<li>About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
<li>Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
<li>Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform
<li>People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day
<li>Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
<li>Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day
<li>More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including over 80 of comScore�s U.S. Top 100 websites and over half of comScore�s Global Top 100 websites
<li>There are more than 250 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices
<li>People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
<li>There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
<li>Al Pacino�s face was on the original Facebook homepage
<li>One early Facebook function was a file sharing service
<li>The first �Work Networks� as well as the original educational networks included Apple and Microsoft
<li>The meaning of the term poke has never been defined
<li>There is an �App� to see what�s on the Facebook cafe menu
<li>Mark Zuckerburg (CEO of Facebook) calls himself a �Harvard Graduate� when in fact he didn�t graduate (apparently his reply is that �there isn�t a setting for dropout�)
<li>Australian�s spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average
<li>A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4,000 on eBay
<li>Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel the co-founder of PayPal for $500,000
<li>It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google (at the moment)
<li>Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion
<li>Facebook makes money through advertising and virtual products
<li>Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by ConnectU who claimed that Zuckerburg stole the idea and Technology for Facebook (the issue was settled out of court)
<li>The USA has the largest Facebook user base with 155 million people which represents 23.6% of Facebook�s total users
<li>There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages
<li>Texas Hold�em Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 41 million fans
<li>More than 650 million active users.
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