10 Interesting Facebook Facts

1. Facebook has over 350 million active users. More than 35 million users update their status each day, 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. Approximately 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
5. Facebook is not only beating MySpace traffic, but it is also the second-ranked site overall in the U.S. behind Google.
6. Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook and five billion minutes on MySpace
7. In 2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, where he placed photos of undergraduates side by side so viewers could rank which one was “hotter.” Zuckerberg would later turn Facemash into the now ubiquitous Facebook
8. In 2008, a 23-year-old woman named Lauren Michaels created a group titled “I Need Sex” on Facebook. Within 10 minutes, she had 35 members and soon attracted 100—50 of whom she eventually slept with. Facebook has since removed her page
9. An 18-year-old Wisconsin man posed as several different girls on Facebook to blackmail underage male teens into performing sexual favors by coaxing them to send nude photos of themselves. He could be facing up to 300 years in prison
10. A 39-year-old Pennsylvania father was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook