15 Amazing Facebook Facts You Should Know

Facebook launched on February 4, 2004 and became the juggernaut of social media. Here in the United States, for example, 67% of Internet users are on Facebook. In the United Kingdom, that number is a staggering 82%. Facebook has also become the most popular social media app on smartphones and accounts for 66% of all social media sharing on iPhones.

5 Amazing Facebook Facts You Should Know

  1. Every morning when they wake up, 48% of 18-34 year olds check their Facebook account. 28% of that demographic actually check Facebook before they even get out of bed.
  2. Users are exposed to 1500 pieces of potential content every day.
  3. Approximately 7.5 million sites contain the the Facebook Like or Share Buttons.
  4. California is the most social state with 15,267,160 users. That means 41% of the state’s population is in Facebook. Texas is second with 9 million users and New York comes in at third with 8 million.
  5. In the United States, the five most popular brands on Facebook are: Walmart, Target, Amazon, Samsung Mobile USA and Subway.
  6. Despite being blocked, there are roughly 95 million Facebook users in China.
  7. Approximately 86% of their daily active users are outside the U.S. and Canada, with 29% logging in from Asian countries.
  8. There are 70 different languages available for users on Facebook.
  9. In 2013, the Super Bowl was the most talked about topic in the United States. Globally, the most talked about topic was Pope Francis.
  10. The average person spends between 18 and 20 minutes viewing their Facebook account. If you combine every user, that what would be around 20 billion minutes!
  11. Originally, engineers wanted to call the “Like” button the “Awesome” button.
  12. Every 20 minutes on Facebook 1 million links are shared, 2 million friends are requested and 3 million messages are sent
  13. Every second there are 20,000 people on facebook.
  14. On average there are 486,183 users a minute accessing facebook from their Mobile.
  15. 79% of all users are accessing from their mobile.
  16. There are 745 million daily mobile users.

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