Fun Facebook Statistics

Facebook is one of the largest social networking sites in the world, and currently ranks third in overall world-wide traffic according to Compete.com. The following statistics are provided to help marketers make the case for building campaigns around and allocating resources for Facebook marketing.

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Last updated: October 21, 2009

• Facebook is home to over 300 million users
• The fastest growing demographic on Facebook are people 35 and older
• There are over 45 million status messages posted to Facebook each day
• The average Facebook user has 130 friends
• There are over 65 million users who access Facebook from mobile phones each month
• Facebook has over 45 million user-created groups on the site

Source: Facebook Press page – Statistics

• Users spend 8 billion minutes online everyday using Facebook
• There are some 2 billion pieces of content shared every week on the service
• Users upload 2 billion photos each month
• There are over 20 billion photos now on Facebook
• During peak times, Facebook serves 1.2 million photos a second
• There are 1.2 million users for every engineer at Facebook

Source: Mike Schroepfer, VP Engineering Facebook at Web 2.0 Conference and TechCrunch