Tuesday, April 28, 2009

We log in to Facebook everyday, and she too...


Almost everyone has a Facebook nowadays. Most of us addicted to Facebook. Me too, I'm addicted to facebook. But, have you ever wonder how many Facebook's users are there? How many log into Facebook in a day? How many update their statues at least once a day?, etc.... The Statitics below are taken from Facebook:

Statistics

General Growth
  • More than 200 million active users
  • More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day
  • More than two-thirds of Facebook users are outside of college
  • The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older
User Engagement
  • Average user has 120 friends on the site
  • More than 3.5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
  • More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day
  • More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day
Applications
  • More than 850 million photos uploaded to the site each month
  • More than 8 million videos uploaded each month
  • More than 1 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week
  • More than 2.5 million events created each month
  • More than 25 million active user groups exist on the site
International Growth
  • More than 40 translations available on the site, with more than 50 in development
  • About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
Platform
  • More than 660,000 developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
  • Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
  • More than 52,000 applications currently available in the Facebook Application Directory
  • More than 5,000 applications have 10,000 or more monthly active users
  • More than 8,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008
Mobile
  • There are more than 30 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
  • People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are almost 50% more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
  • There are more than 150 mobile operators in 50 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products

and have you ever wonder who is the eldest member in Facebook?

She is Ivy Bean , aged 102. While chatting at the care home, she came discover Facebook. She not only just log in to her Facebook, she also began to post news and videos about her. She said she loves being online and it beats writing with a pen. That's cool.

Ivy Bean, one of the Facebook's users

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