Facebook hits 1 billion active users

[MKR&*42]

Posted 2 days ago

Facebook is now used by 1 billion people every month, or one in every seven people in the world, its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has confirmed.
The milestone means Zuckerberg has achieved his stated ambition of reaching 1 billion active monthly users just two years and three months after the social network reached the half billion mark. Facebook reached 900 million active monthly users in April.

Facebook has recorded 1.13 trillion Likes, 140.3 billion friend connections and 219bn shared photos since it launched in February 2004. More than 300m photos are uploaded every day and 62.6m songs played.

Ofc a large amount will probably be users who bizarrely have more than 1 account, but still regularly use both (I used to know people make one for pets when I had it........). Nevertheless, still an impressive feat.

[Grimmauld]

yes, it is quite incredible. facebook is one of many amazing things that technology has created. it is a shame that after you have decided to deactivate your facebook, you eventually realize how much time youve spent on there haha

[Stephen]

won't be long until it dies tbh

[Aiden]

I hate facebook, I still use it and everything but it sucks. Skype is much better.

[xxMATTGxx]

Good news for facebook I suppose. I don't use it as much as others and only visit it every now and then to see what people are saying but in terms of status updates then I do that more often on other social networks.

[GoldenMerc]

Fair play, but when will they start making profit and paying back their investors?