As of November 2012, Facebook had 1 billion active users world-wide. Active users are considered people who use the site at least once per week.

Half of the world’s active users are on Facebook every day.

600,000 million Facebook users are interacting on a phone.

Largest-growing group of Facebook users are females age 55-62.

700 billion minutes per month are spent per person on Facebook.

The average Facebook user in age is 38, and has 200 friends. They are connected to 60 to 80 pages.

1 million business pages get a new like every day.

A quarter of a million photos get shared every day on Facebook

2.7 billion times a day, someone says something on Facebook that somebody else responds to.

90 percent of people trust peer recommendations

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and it’s owned by the first largest search engine, Google.

— Courtesy Dream Local Digital

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