8 years later, Facebook makes 140.3 billion friendships

Social network giants Facebook announced on Thursday, October 4, 2012 that it has hit a billion active accounts. An extraordinary feat for the social network which launched in February 2004 – eight years ago. What’s more important though is the number of friendships made on the social networking website in the last eight years- a whopping 140.3 billion. And the number could have been more; but there is a standard limit of friends a user can have, being 5000. Congrats Mark Zukerberg! Here are some other interesting facts of Facebook as at October 2012. - 44 per cent of Internet users are signed to Facebook - Facebook has 600 mobile users - The top five countries that use Facebook are (in ascending order) – USA, Brazil, India, Indonesia and Mexico. - There are 1.13 trillion Facebook likes - There are 219 billion photos uploaded on Facebook - 62.6 million songs have been played 22 million times on Facebook - There are 17 billion location-tagged posts including check-ins on Facebook - The average age of a facebook user is 22 Statistics made available by Facebook Newsroom.