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Facebook
now has more visitors per day than any other website including
Google and is a necessity for any successful business web
presence.
There
are more than 500 million active users on Facebook.
50% of Facebook users login any given day and the average
user has 130 friends, is
connected to 80 community pages, groups and events,
and creates
90 pieces of content each month.
Worldwide, people spend over 700 billion minutes per month
on Facebook.
More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories,
blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) are shared each month.
According
to Matt Cutts, Google associate and software engineer, Google
considers Facebook when ranking websites on the Google Search
Engines and a Facebook account is an important factor in overall
Search Engine Ranking for Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
Facebook Facts
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Report:
Facebook Nearing 700 Million Members
Leslie Horn By Leslie Horn |
The Facebook
army just keeps getting bigger. According to Facebook statistics
blog Socialbakers, Facebook is about to hit 700 million users.
Most of
the growth came from Brazil, where Facebook added more than
1.9 million new users in May, amounting to 11 percent growth.
Indonesia had the second-highest growth rate (four percent),
adding more than 1.5 million new Facebookers. Rounding out
the top five is the Philippines with 1.3 million new users,
Mexico with 1.1 million, and Argentina with about a million.
Officially,
Facebook says it has more than 500 million users, and the
company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Facebook confirmed that it had reached half a billion users
last summer, and considering Facebook's undeniable expanding
presence throughout the world, that number is likely outdated.
The United
States, however, wasn't a contributor to last month's growth,
and wasn't even listed in Socialbakers' list of top growing
countries. However, the U.S. is still the most-represented
country on Facebook, with about 150 million members on the
site.
For many
people, Facebook is an important part of how they feel connected
to others. In fact, a recent study said that 53 percent of
young people (ages 16-22) would rather lose their sense of
smell than give up their social networks. The results were
culled from a poll of 7,000 people between the ages of 16
and 30 in countries including the U.S., the U. K., Spain,
China, Brazil, India, Mexico, and several others. Accordingly
all of the aforementioned countries, minus the United States
and China, were referenced in Socialbakers' top 20 list.
Facebook Demographics
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