- Facebook has over 350 million active users. More than 35 million users update their status each day, with more than 55 million status updates each day.
- More than 2.5 billion pictures are uploaded to Facebook each month.
3.The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month.
4.Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook and five billion minutes on MySpace.
5.In 2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, where he placed photos of undergraduates side by side so viewers could rank which one was “hotter.” Zuckerberg would later turn Facemash into the now ubiquitous Facebook.
6.If Facebook were a country, it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, after China, India, the U.S., and Indonesia.
7. Approximately 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States.
8.Forbes dubbed 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, the creator/owner of Facebook, as the world’s youngest billionaire, worth 1.5 billion.
9.Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook.
10.The first person to invest in Facebook was the cofounder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who invested $500,000 in June 2004.
11.In September 2009, Zuckerberg announced for the first time that Facebook was cash flow positive, meaning Facebook made more money that it spent.
12.In May 2009, a Russian investment firm, Digital Sky Technologies, invested $200 million in Facebook in return for a 1.96% stake in the Web site.
13.When Facebook changed its privacy setting in December 2009, Zuckerberg’s previously private photos—in which he was seen shirtless, holding a teddy bear, and looking “plastered”—became public.
14.There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook.
15.Farmville boasts more than 60 million players on Facebook. Zynga—the maker of Farmville, Mafia Wars, and other Facebook games—boasts an annual revenue of more than $200 million.
16.Eleven percent of Facebook’s 100 million U.S. users are African-American, 9% are Latino, and 6% are Asian, which is a fairly accurate reflection of the U.S. general population.
17.Both citizens and police departments are increasingly using Facebook to catch suspected criminals.
18.When Facebook changed its privacy setting in December 2009, Zuckerberg’s previously private photos—in which he was seen shirtless, holding a teddy bear, and looking “plastered”—became public.
19.The average Facebook users spend more than 55 minutes a day on the site. They use the Like button nine times a month and write 25 comments each month.
20.A recent survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social networking sites such as Facebook to evaluate applicants. Thirty-eight percent of admissions officers said that what they saw negatively affected the applicant.
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