After going to sleep way to early last night, I found myself awake at 3 am. What do you do when you are bored at 3 am? I decided to look at FaceBook Statistics. Why? Because I kept thinking the last time I looked there were 250 million active users loading 1 billion photos per month, the newer 350 million number has been out for a few months. I wonder how many photos are getting uploaded now?
The new number is 2.5 billion photos per month! Holy Cow, Batman! Can we simply call FaceBook a Photo Sharing website? This is ridiculous! I am guessing FaceBook is now well over 20 billion photos on the site (the last number I recall was 15 billion). Notably missing is an update to the amount of videos being uploaded monthly. The last update was 10 million videos with an average running time of a minute. This number may be too small for FaceBook to brag about; however, the potential for video in FaceBook has never been greater.
Increasingly FaceBook is a source of entertainment and social interaction, as proven by the numbers. The ability to watch live video shows and comment with your friends will bring a whole new dimension to FaceBook. CNN experimented with this during the presidential inauguration a year ago on FaceBook. It rocked. You Tube did their Live show, then the Live U2 show from the Rose Bowl. O.k, it wasn’t FaceBook and I had nobody online to chat with at 2 am (damn west coast shows), but that really rocked. If I was Conan O’Brien, I’d take my show to FaceBook and leave the networks behind. FaceBook is NOW, are you participating?
As reported by FaceBook:
More than 350 million active users
50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
More than 35 million users update their status each day
More than 55 million status updates posted each day
More than 2.5 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
More than 3.5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week
More than 3.5 million events created each month
More than 1.6 million active Pages on Facebook
More than 700,000 local businesses have active Pages on Facebook
Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans
Average user has 130 friends on the site
Average user sends 8 friend requests per month
Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook
Average user clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month
Average user writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month
Average user becomes a fan of 2 Pages each month
Average user is invited to 3 events per month
Average user is a member of 12 groups
What is the average time of day that users log on? I realize there are different time zones around the world. Generally? or by region?
Hi Alan.
I have been seeing 2-4 pm east coast time as the busiest time in my network. I haven’t seen this beyond my own research, but I believe you will see frequency of login changes with Age, Younger people login multiple times per day, Older people less frequently. I understand that is a HUGE generalization…but that is what my polling has shown.
Jamie