8 years later, Facebook makes 140.3 billion friendships

By Osagie Alonge

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.