No News is Good News - Statistics

50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day

- Facebook

About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States

People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook

23% of Facebook users don't know about the site's privacy controls, or don't bother to use them.

42% have shared their date of birth.

- Telegraph

14% have made their address available.

- Telegraph

36% of people use Facebook to update people on their whereabouts.

- Telegraph

35% count down to events such as holidays by updating their status

- Telegraph

69 percent of Facebook’s monthly visitors worldwide either look at or upload photos

- comScore data

46% of Denmark has a Facebook account

- http://www.facebakers.com/facebook-statistics/denmark

Up to 39% of social network users admit to being “cyber-bullied”.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_service (cite note 41)


1 in 13 people have a Facebook account.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10720270

The average user…

… has 130 friends

… 'likes' 9 pages every month

… has joined 12 groups

… writes 25 comments a month

… sends 8 friend requests a month