Introduction of Facebook
Facebook was founded by 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and originally called
thefacebook. It was quickly successful on campus and expanded beyond Harvard into other Ivy
League schools. With the phenomenon growing in popularity, Zuckerberg enlisted two other
students, Duston Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, to assist. Within months, thefacebook became a
nationwide college networking website.
Statistics
People on Facebook
More than 800 million active users
More than 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
Average user has 130 friends
Activity on Facebook
More than 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and
community pages)
Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
On average, more than 250 million photos are uploaded per day
Global Reach
More than 70 languages available on the site
More than 75% of users are outside of the United States
Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
Platform
On average, people on Facebook install apps more than 20 million times every day
Every month, more than 500 million people use an app on Facebook or experience
Facebook Platform on other websites
More than 7 million apps and websites are integrated with Facebook
Mobile
More than 350 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile
devices
More than 475 mobile operators globally work to deploy and promote Facebook mobile
products
