Facebook Facts That Will Make You Go Crazzy!

I Found some interesting Facts about 

Facebook , so I thought of sharing them 

with you all. "Facebook Facts"

• 1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook

• 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

• 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

• People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day 

• Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day

• 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.

• Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage

• One early Facebook function was a file sharing service

• The meaning of the term poke has never been defined

                          

• 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 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 are over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages

• Texas Hold’em Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 53 million fans

                        

                  

• More than 800 million active users

                            

• Facebook has 3000+ employees

                      

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