Half a billion people around the world are now using Facebook on a monthly basis. That means Facebook has a slightly smaller population than the continent of North America. The social network also has enough users to put 75 people on every one of the over 6.6 million square miles of Russia, the largest country in the world by landmass.
But what other fun facts can we glean from Facebook’s 500 million user milestone? Here are five fun and interesting facts for you to ponder about the world’s largest social network and most popular Website.
Facebook Nation
Will Facebook outpace the PC?
There are well over one billion computers in use in the world today, which is twice the number of Facebook users. In 2008, research firm Gartner predicted there would be two billion active computers in the world by 2010. Assuming that both will still be going strong in three years, who will get to two billion first, the PC or Facebook? With over 150 million mobile users, and more people jumping on the Facebook bandwagon every day. I’d say Facebook is the safer bet.
Where’s Facebook?
Bigger then AOL ever was
AOL may have helped connect people online in the early days of the Internet, but even during its heyday AOL was one-fifteenth the size that Facebook is today. Amazingly, Facebook put AOL to shame without any free CD giveaways.
Worth Fifty
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