At least half of the world's internet users (55%) use Facebook. The user spends one to seven minutes on the INTERNET worldwide on Facebook (latest ComScore update).
- The US has the largest number of Facebook users (152,5 million), followed by India (43,5 million), Indonesia (43,06 million), Brazil (37,9 million) and Mexico (35 million). ), according to data from socialbakers.com.
Facebook ranks first among social networking sites in almost every country, with rare exceptions in Russia, which is preceded by Odnoklassniki and VKontakte, and China, where Facebook is banned, with the US site citing "basic legal and legislative difficulties." . In October, it also lost to Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and Poland, according to ComScore.
- Three of Facebook's four founders are millionaires, starting with President and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ($ 17,5 billion, according to Forbes Magazine 2011). Eight-day-old Dustin Moskovic has a fortune of $ 3,5 billion, and Eduardo Saverin has $ 2 billion. Sean Parker, founder of Napster and one of Zuckerberg's first mentors, has a fortune of $ 2,1 billion due to his shares in Facebook.
- At least 250 million photos are uploaded to the website every day.
- More than 425 million wireless users connected to Facebook from mobile devices in December.
Facebook users have an average of 130 "friends" who can follow the news on the website. Facebook says it hosts at least 100 billion friendships.
- The most popular page of the website is that of the Facebook company that communicates with its users, which is followed by 60,2 million followers. It is followed by the page of a poker site with 56,6 million followers, that of rapper Eminem (52 million followers), the page of YouTube (51,3 million) and that of singer Rihanna (50,3 million).
- Facebook had 3.200 employees on December 31 and plans to hire "thousands" more this year.
- The website is accessible in 70 languages and has offices and data centers in at least 20 countries.
Source: KATHIMERINI