Friday 16 September 2011

10 facebook facts!

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.

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.

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

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

In 2005, East Asia’s richest man, Li Hu Shing, invested $120 million dollars in Facebook

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.

A Facebook post in December 2009 led to a kidney donation.

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.

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

No comments:

Post a Comment