Facebook Hits One Billion Active Users

darubio · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:16

"Facebook has officially reached one billion active users, Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced.

In an official blog post, he writes:

This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. If you’re reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you.

Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life. I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too."

http://mashable.com/2012/10/04/facebook-one-billion/
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That is some staggering numbers..however I left and deleted my facebook account so they now have 99 Million users. ha! Take that ZUCKERBERG!!

RetiredGreyFox · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:19

darubio said:
That is some staggering numbers..however I left and deleted my facebook account so they now have 99 Million users. ha! Take that ZUCKERBERG!!

So 1 billion - 1 = 99 million?

DB_SamX · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:19

^ Burn!

Redz · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:21

But on the bright side, it means 6 billion people on this planet still have a life.

genan · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:22

So 1 000 000 000 - 1 = 99 000 000?! How does that work?

Overslop · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:29

genan said:
So 1 000 000 000 - 1 = 99 000 000?! How does that work?

Maybe he's a millionaire? :confused:

darubio · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:33

alrite alrite calm down! 999 Million I meant to put

Zefan · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:34

That still doesn't work.

Maths fail.

Biohazard · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:38

LMFAO

Scythian · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:39

darubio said:
alrite alrite calm down! 999 Million I meant to put

Just.....

genan · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:40

darubio said:
alrite alrite calm down! 999 Million I meant to put

So 1 000 000 000 - 1 = 999 000 000?! How does that work?

Zefan · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:42

Moses said:
What did Myspace peak at?

It was quite a lot at its height but before the internet was really really popular. I think as it stands now they have about 8 members. Darubio go and join myspace, then they'll have 1,000,008 members.

grudas · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:42

Moses said:
What did Myspace peak at?

-9999 million billions

OhEsEcks · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:46

I have a hard time believing Facebook has 1 billion individual unique users. 1 billion active accounts I can believe. How many of those accounts are part of the collective for trading, I'd be more interested in knowing.

ObixConstant · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:52

How about all those fake accounts in existence amongst others. Probably a lot less than they claim.

Biohazard · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:54

Zefan said:
It was quite a lot at its height but before the internet was really really popular. I think as it stands now they have about 8 members. Darubio go and join myspace, then they'll have 1,000,008 members.

lol

BloodyL · 5 Oct 2012 at 00:55

Facebook's got 999 million users but Darubio ain't one of them.

Dist · 5 Oct 2012 at 01:01

I created a few weeks ago to see what the big deal with, and as I don't have any friends that are facebook users, I just couldn't really find a point for it. With twitter I follow interesting people, tech journalists and such just so I can combine all their tweets into 1 stream without tweeting anything myself, but with facebook I just haven't seen much use for me.

At least Google+ has some interesting content on it, facebook from the little I've seen of it so far is people spamming likes to enter competitions, stupid companies thinking likes make them a better company, and people posting pictures of their lunch.

King Damager · 5 Oct 2012 at 01:02

The maths is weak in this one...

It's quite staggering really. 1 in 7(ish) worldwide.

When you exclude China (banned), it drops to about 1 in 6 (ish)...

Twitter is just a fancy RSS feed. Facebook is something interesting... Also, seriously... Dist how do none of your friends have facebook! See the above stats! xD

kd

Dist · 5 Oct 2012 at 01:06

King Damager said:
Also, seriously... Dist how do none of your friends have facebook! See the above stats! xD

I have 1 or 2 close friends that I actually would care about the sort of stuff they say, neither uses facebook although 1 uses twitter. I have a few other friends but not close enough to care about the things they put on facebook.