Facts About Facebook

Posted by Deepak On 6/17/2012 In Other

1. 1 in every 13 People on Earth is on Facebook.
2. 71.2 % of all USA internet users are on Facebook.
3. In 20 Minutes 1,000,000 links are shared on Facebook.
4. In 20 minutes 1,484,000 event invites are posted.
5. In 20 minutes 1,323,000 photos are tagged.
6. In 20 minutes 1,851,000 status updates are entered.
7. In 20 minutes 1.972 million friend requests are accepted.
8. In 20 minutes 2,716,000 photos are uploaded.
9. In 20 minutes 2,716,000 messages are sent.
10. In 20 minutes 10.2 million comments are posted.
11. In 20 minutes 1,587,000 wall posts are written.
12. 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year's weekend.
13. 48% of young Americans said they found out about news through Facebook.
14. 48% of 18 to 34 years old check Facebook right when they wake up.
15. Average user has 130 friends.
16. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook.
17. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events.
18. Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month.
19. More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
20. More than 70 translations available on the site.
21. About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States.
22. People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day .
23. Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day.
24. There are more than 250 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
25. People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
26. Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage.
27. The meaning of the term Poke has never been defined.
28. Mark Zuckerberg (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).
29. Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel the co-founder of PayPal for $500,000.
30. It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google (at the moment).
31. Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion.
32. 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).
33. The USA has the largest Facebook user base with 155 million people which represents 23.6% of Facebook’s total users.
34. There are over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages.
35. Texas Hold’em Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 53 million fans.
36. Facebook has 3000+ employees.

Author: Deepak

Deepak Rana is the CEO and Founder of Technofers. He is a young Blogger from India.