Facebook has now made half a billion friends, meaning one in every 14 people on Earth has joined the social networking website, the company confirmed.
Six years after Mark Zuckerberg’s company got its start in a Harvard dorm room, Facebook has taken aim at reaching one billion members, matching the number of Google users.
Last summer, Facebook had 250 million members and the website has gained 100 million new members since February of this year.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post he could “never (have) imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook.”
A few Facebook facts:
- If Facebook was a country it would be the third largest, behind only China and India
- Facebook has 15 times more users than Canada’s entire population
- Facebook has 100 billion hits a day
- There are more than 50 billion photos on Facebook
