Facebook has over 350 million active users. More than thirty five million users update their standing every day with over 55 million standing updates everyday.
More than 2.5 bln photographs are uploaded to Facebook every month.
The average Facebook user has 130 buddies and sends 8 buddy requests a month.
Facebook is not just thrashing MySpace traffic, but it’s also the second-ranked site overall in the U.S. behind Google.
If Facebook were a country, it’d be the fifth-largest country in the world, after China, India, the U.S, and Indonesia.
The New Oxford Compendium commented that the 2009 Word of the Year was unfriend, as in to get rid of somebody as a mate on a networking site like Facebook. Nevertheless there’s some discussion whether the word should be defriend instead of unfriend.
Forbes dubbed 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, the creator / owner of Facebook, as the planet’s youngest multi-millionaire, worth 1.5 bln.
The average Facebook users spend more than 55 minutes a day on the site. They use the Like button 9 times a month and write twenty-five comments each month.
Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook.
The first individual to invest in Facebook was the cofounder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who invested $500,000 in June 2004.
Twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss claim Zuckerberg stole their concept after they employed him to do programming for their own site, Harvard Connect (ConnectU). The case was settled on an unknown sum. Others, eg fellow student, Aaron Greenspan, also say they invented Facebook.
A Facebook post in December 2009 led straight to a kidney donation.