I read a great piece in Fast Company by Leah Fabel. I am sure many of these numbers have changed (grown no doubt) since the publication, but they are still impressive.
Facebook as 610,736,920 Member Profiles (one for every eleven on the planet). Did you know that some of these could be fictitious, like I know one friend whose dog has a page (Fenway Bark) and another who just has a creepy chinese alias.
Every 60 seconds on facebook users send 230,000 messages, update 95,000 statuses, write 80,000 wall posts, tag 65,000 photos share 50,000 links and affirm or disparage them all with half a million comments.
The Brands with the most fans on facebook are Coca-Cola (21.6M) Starbucks (19M) Oreo (16.2M) Disney (15.6M) and Red Bull (14.7M).
It is estimated that Facebook pulled in $1.86 B in advertising in 2010. It is expected that will grow to $4B in 2011. Now that is a nice growth rate.
Facebook is expected to go public this year at a estimated value of $25,000,000,000
Facebook is the number 2 website based on view behind Google.
Finally 65% of survey teens admit to being "friends" with their parents. Of course 16% said it was a precondition for joining the site. and more than 38% of teens have ignored a friend request from mom or dad. Not my kids!
