that it has hit a billion active accounts. An extraordinary feat for
the social network which launched in February 2004 – eight years ago.
What's more important though is the number of friendships made on the
social networking website in the last eight years- a whopping 140.3
billion. And the number could have been more; but there is a standard
limit of friends a user can have, being 5000.
Congrats Mark Zukerberg!
Here are some other interesting facts of Facebook as at October 2012.
- 44 per cent of Internet users are signed to
- Facebook has 600 mobile users
- The top five countries that use Facebook
are (in ascending order) – USA, Brazil,
India, Indonesia and Mexico.
- There are 1.13 trillion Facebook likes
- There are 219 billion photos uploaded on
- 62.6 million songs have been played 22
million times on Facebook
- There are 17 billion location-tagged posts
including check-ins on Facebook
- The average age of a facebook user is 22
Statistics made available by Facebook Newsroom.