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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 41 million fans

More than 650 million active users

Facebook has over 3
50 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.

The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month.

Among children under 18, Facebook was ranked third in the top 100 searches of 2009, behind YouTube and Google. Sex and porn rounded out the top five searches.

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.

Facebook is not only beating MySpace traffic, but it is also the second-ranked site overall in the U.S. behind Google.

Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook and five billion minutes on MySpace.

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.

In 2008, a 23-year-old woman named Lauren Michaels created a group titled “I Need Sex” on Facebook. Within 10 minutes, she had 35 members and soon attracted 100—50 of whom she eventually slept with. Facebook has since removed her page.

If Facebook were a country, it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, after China, India, the U.S., and Indonesia.

The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales warned that Facebook and MySpace can lead children to commit suicide because such sites encourage teens to build transient relationships and dehumanize community life.

Facebook includes eating disorder groups such as “Get Thin or Die Trying,” and “Quod me nutrit me destruit” (“What nourishes me destroys me”). While such eating disorder sites were typically anonymous on the Web, their growing presence on Facebook makes them more public and accessible to more people.

The New Oxford Dictionary announced that the 2009 Word of the Year was “unfriend,” as in “to remove someone as a friend on a social networking site” such as Facebook. However, there is some debate whether the word should be “defriend” rather than “unfriend.”

While stressing that correlation does not equal causation, a recent poll suggested that Facebook users have lower overall grades than non-users.

While initially created for college students, Facebook users over the age 26 now represent 60% of the total U.S. Facebook population.

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.

Approximately 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States.

Forbes dubbed 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, the creator/owner of Facebook, as the world’s youngest billionaire, worth 1.5 billion.

Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook.

In December 2009, there were over 250 million active users on Facebook, up from 1 million active users in December 2004.

Information deemed public—such as profile pictures, names, cities, and networks—are available to developers of any applications that Facebook users or their Facebook friends use on the site.

In Florida, the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee ruled that Florida judges and lawyers should no longer “friend” each other on Facebook.

Facebook’s fastest growing segment in the United States is women 55 years and older.

Named after a Harvard student directory that included student photos and profiles, Facebook was originally called “the facebook” and was limited to only Harvard students. In 2005, the site was renamed “Facebook.”

Both citizens and police departments are increasingly using Facebook to catch suspected criminals.
A “gaydar” software program developed at MIT can reportedly identify gay men on Facebook, private profile or not.

Girls can be prone to anxiety and depression by talking too much to their friends on Facebook. Called “co-rumination,” frequently discussing the same problem can lead to an unhealthy obsession.

On July 1, 2009, shortly after Michael Jackson passed away, his page became the most popular page on Facebook. Previously, the most popular person on Facebook was U.S. President Obama with just over 6 million fans.

In Australia it is valid protocol to serve court notices to defendants on Facebook. A summons posted on Facebook is legally binding.

In the United States, 54.7% of people ages 13 to 17 have a Facebook account.

There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook.