Interesting Facts About Facebook

   After googling 'Facebook facts', I checked out the various sites and here are some of the most interesting and I bet rarely known. Although my project requires only 4, I think it'd be nice if you knew a few more.

1. Facebook has over 350 million active users. More than 35 million users update their status on a daily basis, with more than 55 million status updates each day.
2. More than 2.5 billion pictures are uploaded to Facebook each month.
3. The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month.
4. On July 1, 2009, shortly after Michael Jackson passed away, his page became the most popular page on Facebook. Previously, the most popular person on Facebook was U.S. President Obama with just over 6 million fans.
5. The average Facebook users spend more than 55 minutes a day on the site. They use the Like button nine times a month and write 25 comments each month.
6. If Facebook were a country, it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, after China, India, the United States, and Indonesia.
7. In 2005, East Asia’s richest man, Li Hu Shing, invested $120 million dollars in Facebook.
8. Both citizens and police departments are increasingly using Facebook to catch suspected criminals.

Hope you have enjoyed these facts! :]