Facebook Facts

1. 1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook
2. 35+ demographic represents more than 30% of the entire user base
3. 71.2 % of all USA internet users are on Facebook
4. In 20 minutes 1,000,000 links are shared on Facebook
5. In 20 minutes 1,484,000 event invites are posted
6. In 20 minutes 1,323,000 photos are tagged
7. In 20 minutes 1,851,000 status updates are entered
8. In 20 minutes 1.972 million friend requests are accepted
9. In 20 minutes 2,716,000 photos are uploaded
10. In 20 minutes 2,716,000 messages are sent
11. In 20 minutes 10.2 million comments are posted
12. In 20 minutes 1,587,000 wall posts are written
13. 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend
14. 48% of young Americans said they found out about news through Facebook
15. 48% of 18 to 34 year olds check Facebook right when they wake up
16. 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
17. Average user has 130 friends
18. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
19. There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
20. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
21. Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
22. More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
23. More than 70 translations available on the site
24. About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
25. Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
26. Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform
27. People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day
28. Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
29. Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day
30. 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
31. There are more than 250 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices
32. People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
33. There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
34. Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage
35. One early Facebook function was a file sharing service
36. The first “Work Networks” as well as the original educational networks included Apple and Microsoft
37. The meaning of the term poke has never been defined
38. There is an ‘App’ to see what’s on the Facebook cafe menu
39. 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”)
40. Australian’s spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average
41. A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4,000 on eBay
42. Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel the co-founder of PayPal for $500,000
43. It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google (at the moment)
44. Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion
45. Facebook makes money through advertising and virtual products
46. 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)
47. The USA has the largest Facebook user base with 155 million people which represents 23.6% of Facebook’s total users
48. There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages
49. Texas Hold’em Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 41 million fans
50. More than 650 million active users

The Facebook global numbers

Today there are nearly 1.4 billion users that are spread all around the world. It connects different cultures and allows us to share with family and friends in real time.

1. The USA and Canada is now just a sub-set of the Facebook global family.
   • Asia Pacific is the largest at 449 million
   • Europe has another 301 million.1
   

   The Facebook ecosystem

   In the Facebook ecosystem there are apps and apps.1  From messaging apps including WhatsApp and Messenger, to visual apps like Instagram and even Occulus. Occulus is the virtual reality technology that Facebook bought for $2 billion just over 12 months ago.
   Their numbers are also large by any measure.
   • Instagram with 300 million+ users
   • WhatsApp with 700 million
   • Facebook messenger has 600 million users
   
   
   
   These three are still to be monetized with ads and the potential earnings of this Facebook ecosystem is staggering with $12.47 billion revenue alone just from Facebook in 2014.
   So watch that space over the next 5-10 years.

   The latest Facebook facts and statistics

   Here are some fascinating numbers on a range of Facebook facts and metrics from mobile, revenue and a host of other facts to share in your presentations and wow your next dinner party guests.
   1. Every second there are 20,000 people on Facebook. This means in just 18 minutes there are 11 million users on Facebook5
   2. On average there are 486,183 users a minute accessing Facebook from their mobile
   3. 79% of all users are accessing Facebook from their mobile.
   4. There are 745 million daily mobile users
   5. Facebook is adding 7,246 people every 15 minutes or 8 per second
   6. Every minute there are 150,000 messages sent
   7. Every 15 minutes there are over 49 million posts. To be precise 49,433,000 or 3 million posts per minute
   8. There are 100,000 friend requests every 10 m1inutes
   9. There are 500,000 Facebook “likes” every minute
   10. Facebook generates $1.4 million in revenue every hour
   11. Nearly  73% of Facebook’s ad revenue comes from mobile advertising
   12. Facebook earns $2.5 billion a quarter from mobile advertising
   13. People share 1.3 million pieces of content on Facebook every minute of every day
   14. In November of 2014the number of video uploads to Facebook exceeded YouTube video uploads according to Social Bakers
   15. Facebook generated $12.47 billion in sales in 2014 (a rise of 58% year on year)
   16. Photo uploads are 350 million per day
   17. Users spend 21 minutes per day on average on Facebook
   18. 31% of US senior citizens are on Facebook
   19. 66% of all millennials (15-34 year olds) use Facebook1
   20. People spend 927 million hours a month playing Facebook games
   21. There are 1 billion mobile app links enabled on Facebook