More than 100 million people are actively using Facebook from their mobile devices every month, a 54% increase from the 65 million people who did so just six months ago, according to Facebook.
The data come less than a week after Facebook announced it had exceeded 400 million users in total.
People who use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook as non-mobile users, according to Facebook statistics.
Below, other statistics from Facebook.
Company data:
- 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day.
- More than 35 million users update their status each day.
- More than 60 million status updates are posted each day.
- More than 3 billion photos are uploaded to the site each month.
- More than 5 billion pieces of content (Web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) are shared each week.
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Facebook users, on average:
- Have 130 friends on the site.
- Send 8 friend requests per month.
- Spend more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook.
- Click the "Like" button on 9 pieces of content each month.
- Write 25 comments on Facebook content each month.
- Are members of 13 groups.
