21 Awesome Facebook Facts and Statistics You Need To Check Out

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It is rumoured that Facebook was going to call the like button “awesome”. But they didn’t.

That is a good thing because the word awesome is over used already. It is often trotted out to try and make the ordinary a little more extraordinary. You may also have noticed I used it in the “headline”. But I couldn’t help myself.

That is maybe one time too many. Sorry.

Every second there are 20,000 people on Facebook. This means in just 18 minutes there are 11 million users on Facebook3
On average there are 486,183 users a minute accessing Facebook from their mobile
79% of all users are accessing Facebook from their mobile.
There are 745 million daily mobile users
Facebook is adding 7,246 people every 15 minutes or 8 per second
Every minute there are 150,000 messages sent
Every 15 minutes there are over 49 million posts. To be precise 49,433,000 or 3 million posts per minute
There are 100,000 friend requests every 10 minutes
There are 500,000 Facebook “likes” every minute
Facebook generates $1.4 million in revenue every hour
Nearly 73% of Facebook’s ad revenue comes from mobile advertising
Facebook earns $2.5 billion a quarter from mobile advertising
People share 1.3 million pieces of content on Facebook every minute of every day
In November of 2014the number of video uploads to Facebook exceeded YouTube video uploads according to Social Bakers
Facebook generated $12.47 billion in sales in 2014 (a rise of 58% year on year)
Photo uploads are 350 million per day
Users spend 21 minutes per day on average on Facebook
31% of US senior citizens are on Facebook
66% of all millennials (15-34 year olds) use Facebook
People spend 927 million hours a month playing Facebook games
There are 1 billion mobile app links enabled on Facebook