HERE IS A LIST OF FACEBOOK FACTS & FIGURES YOU DIDN'T KNOW :
- · 1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook
- · 35+ demographic represents more than 30% of the entire user base
- · 71.2 % of all USA Internet users are on Facebook
- · In 20 minutes 1,000,000 links are shared on Facebook
- · In 20 minutes 1,484,000 event invites are posted
- · In 20 minutes 1,323,000 photos are tagged
- · In 20 minutes 1,851,000 status updates are entered
- · In 20 minutes 1.972 million friend requests are accepted
- · In 20 minutes 2,716,000 photos are uploaded
- · In 20 minutes 2,716,000 messages are sent
- · In 20 minutes 10.2 million comments are posted
- · In 20 minutes 1,587,000 wall posts are written
- · 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend
- · 48% of young Americans said they found out about news through Facebook
- · 48% of 18 to 34 year olds check Facebook right when they wake up
- · 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- · Average user has 130 friends
- · People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
- · There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
- · Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
- · Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
- · More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
- · More than 70 translations available on the site
- · About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
- · Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
- · Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform
- · People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day
- · Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
- · Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day
- · 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
- · There are more than 250 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices
- · People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
- · There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
- · Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage
- · One early Facebook function was a file sharing service
- · The first “Work Networks” as well as the original educational networks included Apple and Microsoft
- · The meaning of the term poke has never been defined
- · There is an ‘App’ to see what’s on the Facebook cafe menu
- · 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”)
- · Australian’s spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average
- · A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4,000 on eBay
- · Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel the co-founder of PayPal for $500,000
- · It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google (at the moment)
- · Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion
- · Facebook makes money through advertising and virtual products
- · 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)
- · The USA has the largest Facebook user base with 155 million people which represents 23.6% of Facebook’s total users
- · There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages
- · Texas Hold’em Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 60 million fans More than 800 million active users.
