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