Facebook, the largest social networking site

At the time of writing Facebook is the top social networking site in the world with over 250 million active users. An active user is defined as logging in to Facebook at least once every 30 days. More than 120 million users log on to Facebook at least once a day and at this point the fastest-growing demographic of Facebook users is people who are 35 years old and older. Every day more than 5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook (worldwide) and the average amount of time for a user to stayon Facebook is 19 minutes. More than 30 million users update their status as in Facebook at least once a day.

One of the powerful viral aspects of Facebook is the sharing of photos and videos. Every month more than 1 billion photos  and over 10 million videos are uploaded to Facebook each month. There are over 50 translations available on Facebook with another 40 being developed. Interestingly 70% of Facebook users are outside of the United States.

Facebook is not limited in its use by computers. There are over 30 million active users that access Facebook through their mobile devices, and people that use Facebook on their mobile devices are 50% more active on Facebook than those using computers.

How Did Facebook Start?

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a former Harvard student as a hobby, while he was studying at Harvard. Running Facebook was one of his hobbies and was designed as a communication tool for college students. It quickly spread to Stanford and Yale and a few months later became a national student network. When Facebook was first created in February 2004 it was known as thefacebook and was officially called Facebook in August 2005. Facebook’s growth has been rapid and the Facebook company now has over 900 employees and several main offices not only in the US, but also in Dublin, Ireland, London England,and in Paris, France.