Some Facebook Facts

I Found Some Interesting Facts About Facebook, So I thought of Sharing them with u all.

• 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 years old check Facebook right when they wake up.
• 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.
• The meaning of the term Poke has never been defined.
• Mark Zuckerberg (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).
• 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.
• Facebook has 3000+ employees.