Today is the big day. Facebook shares are officially up for grabs to the public at a price of $38 per share. If you are like me, and the Facebook IPO is all you have heard about for the past two weeks (or more!), then you’re probably ready to read about something else. Here are a few interesting facts and some useful statistics about Facebook that literally have NOTHING to do with the Facebook IPO.
A new Facebook record was set New Years Eve weekend when over 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook. I’m sure there were some gems there!
Al Pacino’s face was originally featured on the Facebook homepage. No, seriously, it’s true!
Prior to a homepage redesign in 2007, the face of a man shrouded by a layer of binary code was displayed on the top left side of Facebook’s front page. It wasn’t until David Kirkpatrick’s book, “The Facebook Effect”, that the identity of this “Facebook guy” came to light. The image was a manipulated photo of Al Pacino created by a friend and classmate of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
The average user spends over 700 minutes per month on Facebook. That is 11 hours and 40 minutes of Facebook time per month! Sounds about right actually.
28% of 18-34 year olds check Facebook on their phone before ever getting out of bed in the morning!
There are more than 800 million active users on Facebook. In fact approximately 1 in every 13 people on earth login to Facebook at least once a day and more than 350 million of those users access Facebook from a mobile device.
The average Facebook user has 130 friends. How many friends do you have on Facebook?
72% of the people in the US that use the Internet use Facebook.
Every 20 minutes on Facebook there are 1,000,000 links shared, 1,851,000 statuses updated, 1,484,000 events sent, 1,972,000 friend requests accepted, 2,716,000 photos uploaded, and 10,208,000 comments made.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 28-year-old CEO and founder, is now the 29th richest person on Earth.
Facebook is used all across the world except in Japan, China, Russia, Poland, Vietnam, and North Korea. The population of China itself is 1,338,299,519. Imagine if Facebook became prevalent in China!
These are just some of the Facebook facts and statistics that I found to be interesting but if there are others that you find please share in the comments section below.
