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11 Interesting Facts on Facebook
aka – 7 Things You Should Know and 4 Things To Amuse You About Facebook
July 2010
7 THINGS THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
ABOUT FACEBOOK
There Are a Lot of People on Facebook
• More than 500 million active
users
– India and China are the only
countries with more people than
Facebook numbers in users
• 50% of active users log on to
Facebook on any given day
Souce: Facebook’s Statistics Page
Facebook Users are Engaged
• There are over 900 million objects
that people interact with
(pages, groups, events and
community pages)
• 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
Souce: Facebook’s Statistics Page
Facebook is Global
• More than 70 translations
available on the site
• About 70% of Facebook users
are outside the United States
• Over 300,000 users helped
translate the site through the
translations application
Souce: Facebook’s Statistics Page
Facebook is Mobile
• There are more than 150 million active users currently accessing
Facebook through their mobile devices
• People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice more
active on Facebook than non-mobile users
• There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to
deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
Souce: Facebook’s Statistics Page
People Spend Over 700 Billion Minutes Per Month on
• That’s BIG!– Laid end to end, 700 billion dollar bills (66 million miles worth) would stretch from Earth to
Mars and almost all the way back
– 700 billion M&Ms (at 2 grams per chocolatey orb) would be enough to fill 10 one-pound bags
for every one of the 300 million Americans
– 700 billion dollars could buy 2009 Lincoln Town Cars for every person in Vermont, North
Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New
Hampshire, Maine, and Idaho
– The combined weight of every human male in the world is considerably less than 700 billion
pounds, even including the players in the NFL
– 700 billion dollars could buy 87 McDonald's combo meals for every person on Earth, with
change left over for antacids
– You’d have to live to live to be 20,300 years of age to reach 700 billion heartbeats
Adapted from ―Grasping 700 Billion‖ – Tom Barlow http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2008/09/25/grasping-700-billion/
California is Huge on Facebook
• As far as Facebook goes, California
(home of Silicon Valley) is the most
social state, with an amazing
15,267,160 users in the
region, according to Facebakers. This
amounts to a 41% penetration rate —
pretty astounding that nearly half the
state is connected via Facebook
• The next biggest user-base can be
found in Texas with 9 million users, but
it’s nowhere close to California
• New York comes in third with 8
million, and rounding off the very
bottom of the list is … Delaware
Source: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/facebook-facts/
The Average Facebook User Has 130 Friends
• How many Facebook friends do you have? To put your friend count
in perspective, the average user has 130
• As far as Facebook the platform goes, over a million websites have
integrated with Facebook, and more than 150 million people engage
with Facebook on external websites every month
Source: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/facebook-facts/
4 THINGS TO AMUSE YOU
ABOUT FACEBOOK
Al Pacino’s Face Was on the Original Facebook Homepage
• Prior to a major homepage redesign back in 2007, Facebook’s front
page used to feature a man’s face partly obscured behind a cloud of
binary code
• Dubbed the ―Facebook guy,‖ it was not known who the mystery man
was — until recently. David Kirkpatrick has revealed in his book The
Facebook Effect that the image is a manipulated photo of Al Pacino
created by a friend and classmate of Mark Zuckerberg
Source: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/facebook-facts/
The Meaning of the Term Poke Has Never Been Defined
• While Facebook explains how ―poking‖
works on its help center, there’s no
explanation to be found for the origin of
the phrase
• The most common definition is a
friendly ―nudge,‖ but the more flirtatious
connotations cannot be ignored
• David Kirkpatrick reveals in The
Facebook Effect that Zuckerberg once
responded to a question about what a
poke meant on the social networking
site with: ―We thought it would be fun to
make a feature that has no specific
purpose… So mess around with
it, because you’re not getting an
explanation from us.‖
Source: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/facebook-facts/
A Facebook Employee Hoodie Sold for $4,000 on eBay
• If Facebook merchandise is
collectible now, imagine what it will
be worth in years to come. A
Facebook employee standard-
issue hoodie recently sold on eBay
for a whopping $4,050 with nearly
50 bidders battling it out to win the
auction
• The fact that Mark Zuckerberg had
just been seen sporting the same
garment at the D8 Conference and
revealed its mysterious insignia to
the world certainly helped up the
bids, but considering the one that
sold had not touched Zuckerberg
skin, it’s an astonishing amount
Source: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/facebook-facts/
Mark Zuckerberg Calls Himself a ―Harvard Graduate‖
• As you can see for yourself over at
facebook.com/zuck (the personalized
URL Zuckerberg nabbed for
himself), Mark Zuckerberg tells a little
fib on his profile page. He lists himself
as a ―Harvard Graduate,‖ which simply
isn’t true, as he dropped out to
concentrate on getting Facebook up
and running
• When 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl
confronted Zuckerberg with this little
inconsistency, he said ―That’s true. We
don’t have a setting for dropout.‖
Source: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/facebook-facts/
If you’d like to find out more or
have some interesting facts of your
own to share, contact –
Mike Myers
President, Palio