Facts About Facebook That You Don't Know [Discoveries]

I recently made a research on the 2nd ranking website (Facebook) on Alexa  and I dicovered some things which I'll be sharing with you in this post.

Unlike other social networks Facebook grew very fast. Starting from when it was launched by founder Mark Zukerberg June 4, 2004 till date (at the time of tis post). It was originally called "The Facebook". It all started in a small dorm in Harvard University which was dominated by Mark Zukerberg and his roommates.
Read more about the origin of facebook here.

Listed below are some facts about facebook:
As at January 5, 2011 facebook has over 6 million users.

• Facebook is the second-ranked site overall in the U.S. behind Google.
• In the United States 54.7% of people ages 13 to 17 have a Facebook account.
• 9% of Facebook's 100 million U.S. users are Latino.
• 6% of Facebook's 100 million U.S. users are Asian.
• Facebook has over 350 million active users.
• Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook.
• Mark Zuckerberg the creator/owner of Facebook is worth over $1.5 billion
• U.S. Facebook users mirror the country’s ethnic population.
• U.S Police departments are increasingly using Facebook to catch criminals.
• The first person to invest in Facebook was PayPal's co-founder Peter Thiel.
• In the United States 54.7% of people ages 13 to 17 have a Facebook account.
• Facebook's 'unfriend' was The New Oxford Dictionary 2009 word of the year.
• The average Facebook user has 130 friends.
• The average Facebook user sends eight friend requests per month.
• The average Facebook user writes 25 comments each month.
•  More than 35 million users update their Facebook status each day.
• There are more than 55 million status updates each day on Facebook.
• More than 2.5 billion pictures are uploaded to Facebook each month.
• The average user spends more than 55 minutes a day on Facebook.
• The average Facebook user uses the Like button at leaset ten times a month.

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