Surprising facts YOU didn't know about FACEBOOK

-More than 400 million active users
-50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
-More than 35 million users update their status each day
-More than 60 million status updates posted each day
-More than 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
-More than 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week
-More than 3.5 million events created each month
-More than 3 million active Pages on Facebook
-More than 1.5 million local businesses have active Pages on Facebook
-More than 20 million people become fans of Pages each day
-Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans

Average User:

-Average user has 130 friends on the site (this was especially surprising since I have over 600)
-Average user sends 8 friend requests per month Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook
-Average user clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month
-Average user writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month
-Average user becomes a fan of 4 Pages each month
-Average user is invited to 3 events per month
-Average user is a member of 13 groups International Growth
-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

Platform:

-More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
-Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
-More than 500,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
-More than 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users
-More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008
-More than 60 million Facebook users engage with Facebook Connect on external websites every month
Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have implemented Facebook Connect Mobile
-There are more than 100 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


Here's the Facebook logo: