8 YEARS LATER, FACEBOOK MAKES 140.3 BILLION FRIENDSHIPS

Mark Zukerberg

Social network giants Facebook announced on Thursday, October 4, 2012 that it has hit a billion active accounts. An extraordinary feat for the social network which launched in February 2004 – eight years ago.

What’s more important though is the number of friendships made on the social networking website in the last eight years- a whopping 140.3 billion. And the number could have been more; but there is a standard limit of friends a user can have, being 5000.

Congratulations Mark Zukerberg!
Here are some other interesting facts of Facebook as at October 2012.

• 44 per cent of Internet users are signed to Facebook
• Facebook has 600 mobile users
• The top five countries that use Facebook are (in ascending order) - USA, Brazil, India, Indonesia and Mexico.
• There are 1.13 trillion Facebook likes
• There are 219 billion photos uploaded on Facebook
• 62.6 million songs have been played 22 million times on Facebook
• There are 17 billion location-tagged posts including check-ins on Facebook
• The average age of a Facebook user is 22
• Statistics made available by Facebook Newsroom.