Founded in a poky university dorm by a computer-science student and self-confessed geek, its beginnings were inauspicious.
Now, Facebook has 600 million users and Mark Zuckerberg is worth £9 billion.
To mark its seventh birthday, Laura Powell presents Facebook by numbers...
1 out of every 13 people in the world has a Facebook account. More than half of them log in every day.
2 per cent of all searches on Google last year included the word ‘Facebook’.
3 is the number of online invitations to real-life social events that the average Facebook user receives every month.
4 February 2004 is the date on which Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook (originally called ‘thefacebook.com’) from his bedroom at Harvard University.
8 ‘friend’ requests are sent by the average Facebook user every month.
12 per cent of people say Facebook makes them feel anxious, according to a survey conducted by psychologists at Edinburgh Napier University. They concluded that the more ‘friends’ you have on Facebook, the more likely you are to feel the pressure to be entertaining.
13 is the number of fan groups joined by the average Facebook user. Some of the most popular include ‘The Largest Facebook Group Ever’ and ‘I Secretly Want To Punch Slow Walking People In The Back Of The Head’.
18 days is how long the recent Egyptian protests lasted. Facebook played a crucial role in allowing citizens to communicate with the outside world. One Egyptian, Jamal Ibrahim, was so delighted that he even named his newborn daughter Facebook in tribute.
24 per cent of the company is owned by Zuckerberg. Other shareholders include Sean Parker (the founding president who owns 4 per cent), Eduardo Saverin (Zuckerberg’s former Harvard room-mate who owns 5 per cent) and Microsoft (with 1.3 per cent).
25 per cent of employers have reportedly rejected job candidates after looking at their Facebook page.
27 per cent of Facebook users don’t list their relationship status on Facebook.
600 is the number of Facebook friends nun Sister Maria Jesus Galan (nicknamed ‘Sister Internet’), inset, had before she was expelled earlier this year from the Spanish convent she had lived in for 35 years. The reason? She reportedly spent too much time on Facebook.
700 minutes every month is how long Facebook users spend on the website.
888 people are members of a Facebook group called ‘David Cameron is a Hottie’. A certain Samantha Cameron doesn’t appear to be among them.
1,200 miles is how far apart Kelly Carl Hildebrandt and his wife Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt lived before they met on Facebook. The pair sent each other messages out of curiosity at sharing the same names, before travelling to each other’s homes (in Texas and Florida respectively) and falling in love.
1,700 people are employed by Facebook in 12 countries. The lucky recruits are given three free meals a day.
15,000 pounds is how much one benefits cheat was forced to pay back after she was exposed by Facebook. Hazel Cunningham, from Kent, told authorities she was a single mother. She was actually living with her husband - and was caught out after putting photos of their Caribbean wedding on the website.
41,000 people ‘liked’ the Queen’s Facebook page in the first hour after it was launched last November.
2,176,000 private messages are sent on Facebook every 20 minutes.
18,487,490 people ‘like’ (or are fans of) President Obama’s Facebook page.
24,700,000 pounds is how much it cost to make The Social Network, the recent film about Facebook’s creation.
35 million people change their Facebook status every day — from announcing that they are getting married, to where they are going on holiday or what they had for breakfast.
38 million people visit the ‘Texas HoldEm Poker’ page every month. Dedicated to a traditional Texan version of poker, it was declared the most popular Facebook page in 2010.
40 million pounds is how much identical twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss settled for in 2008 when they sued Mark Zuckerberg. They claimed he stole their idea for a social networking site when all three were undergraduates at Harvard together.
9 billion pounds is Mark Zuckerberg’s estimated wealth — it doubled after a cash injection from Goldman Sachs last month. He was catapulted into the top 40 of Forbes’ list of billionaires.
32 billion pounds is the estimated value of Facebook.
700 billion minutes are spent on Facebook around the world every month. Or should that be squandered?
Now, Facebook has 600 million users and Mark Zuckerberg is worth £9 billion.
To mark its seventh birthday, Laura Powell presents Facebook by numbers...
Happy birthday Facebook! Now, Facebook has 600 million users and Mark Zuckerberg is worth £9¿billion
1 out of every 13 people in the world has a Facebook account. More than half of them log in every day.
2 per cent of all searches on Google last year included the word ‘Facebook’.
3 is the number of online invitations to real-life social events that the average Facebook user receives every month.
4 February 2004 is the date on which Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook (originally called ‘thefacebook.com’) from his bedroom at Harvard University.
8 ‘friend’ requests are sent by the average Facebook user every month.
12 per cent of people say Facebook makes them feel anxious, according to a survey conducted by psychologists at Edinburgh Napier University. They concluded that the more ‘friends’ you have on Facebook, the more likely you are to feel the pressure to be entertaining.
13 is the number of fan groups joined by the average Facebook user. Some of the most popular include ‘The Largest Facebook Group Ever’ and ‘I Secretly Want To Punch Slow Walking People In The Back Of The Head’.
18 days is how long the recent Egyptian protests lasted. Facebook played a crucial role in allowing citizens to communicate with the outside world. One Egyptian, Jamal Ibrahim, was so delighted that he even named his newborn daughter Facebook in tribute.
24 per cent of the company is owned by Zuckerberg. Other shareholders include Sean Parker (the founding president who owns 4 per cent), Eduardo Saverin (Zuckerberg’s former Harvard room-mate who owns 5 per cent) and Microsoft (with 1.3 per cent).
25 per cent of employers have reportedly rejected job candidates after looking at their Facebook page.
27 per cent of Facebook users don’t list their relationship status on Facebook.
42 per cent of men and 63 per cent of women with a Facebook account have used it to search for their former partner.
76 is the number of languages Facebook has been translated into, including Welsh, Afrikaans, Romanian and six Indian dialects.104 is the age of the world’s oldest Facebook user. Lilian Lowe, from Wales, uses Facebook to keep in touch with her seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
130 is the average number of friends users have. 600 is the number of Facebook friends nun Sister Maria Jesus Galan (nicknamed ‘Sister Internet’), inset, had before she was expelled earlier this year from the Spanish convent she had lived in for 35 years. The reason? She reportedly spent too much time on Facebook.
700 minutes every month is how long Facebook users spend on the website.
888 people are members of a Facebook group called ‘David Cameron is a Hottie’. A certain Samantha Cameron doesn’t appear to be among them.
1,200 miles is how far apart Kelly Carl Hildebrandt and his wife Kelly Katrina Hildebrandt lived before they met on Facebook. The pair sent each other messages out of curiosity at sharing the same names, before travelling to each other’s homes (in Texas and Florida respectively) and falling in love.
1,700 people are employed by Facebook in 12 countries. The lucky recruits are given three free meals a day.
2009 saw the New Oxford Dictionary declare that its word of the year was ‘unfriend’. This means to remove someone as a friend on Facebook, though some sticklers for detail say it should be ‘defriend’.
7,545 calls made to British police forces last year concerned Facebook. Callers alerted officers to alleged acts of terrorism, frauds, malicious messages, hate crimes and missing pets. 15,000 pounds is how much one benefits cheat was forced to pay back after she was exposed by Facebook. Hazel Cunningham, from Kent, told authorities she was a single mother. She was actually living with her husband - and was caught out after putting photos of their Caribbean wedding on the website.
Sister Internet: Sister Maria Jesus Galan was expelled from her convent after spending too much time on Facebook
41,000 people ‘liked’ the Queen’s Facebook page in the first hour after it was launched last November.
66,168 photographs are ‘tagged’ (linked to the page of the person in the picture) on Facebook every minute.
700,000 anti-X-Factor protesters joined a Facebook Group called ‘Rage Against The Machine For Christmas Number One’ in December 2009. Rage reached the top spot and X-Factor winner Joe McElderry took second place. 2,176,000 private messages are sent on Facebook every 20 minutes.
18,487,490 people ‘like’ (or are fans of) President Obama’s Facebook page.
24,700,000 pounds is how much it cost to make The Social Network, the recent film about Facebook’s creation.
35 million people change their Facebook status every day — from announcing that they are getting married, to where they are going on holiday or what they had for breakfast.
38 million people visit the ‘Texas HoldEm Poker’ page every month. Dedicated to a traditional Texan version of poker, it was declared the most popular Facebook page in 2010.
40 million pounds is how much identical twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss settled for in 2008 when they sued Mark Zuckerberg. They claimed he stole their idea for a social networking site when all three were undergraduates at Harvard together.
9 billion pounds is Mark Zuckerberg’s estimated wealth — it doubled after a cash injection from Goldman Sachs last month. He was catapulted into the top 40 of Forbes’ list of billionaires.
32 billion pounds is the estimated value of Facebook.
700 billion minutes are spent on Facebook around the world every month. Or should that be squandered?
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