Facebook announced this morning that it has a half a billion active users–a fact that it’s celebrating with a new Facebook app called Facebook Stories.
(My favorite thing about Facebook by far: It’s helped me reconnect with dozens of people from my past who I probably would never have encountered again otherwise.)
A little context on the service’s membership milestone:
Population of earth: 6.9 billion
Number of people worldwide who live in poverty: over three billion
Internet users: 1.8 billion
Population of China 1.3 billion
Population of India: 1.1 billion
Active Facebook members: 500 million
Population of United States: 309 million
Twitter users per month: 190 million
McDonalds customers per day: 60 million
Population of New York City: 8.4 million
Sunday New York Times circulation: 1.4 million
Facebook users in December 2004: Almost a million
Unique Technologizer visitors in June: 310,000
Population of Palo Alto, where Facebook is headquartered: 63,000
Population of Monaco: 33,000
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