Facebook generated US$12.47 billion in revenue in 2014, a 58% increase year over year.
Facebook is translated into 70 different languages around the world.
In 2014, the company increased its number of employees by 48%, bringing its workforce to 10,082 employees in its offices.
75% of Facebook’s revenue comes from selling advertising!
Facebook generates US$1.4 million in revenue every hour.
Facebook celebrated its 10th anniversary on February 4, 2014! Yes, already!
Facebook reached 1 billion users in April 2012. Today, in 2015, it has 1.4 billion.
47% of all internet users worldwide have a Facebook account.
During Facebook’s very first summer, Mark Zuckerberg spent $85,000 to keep the company afloat. In September 2013, Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth was US$19 billion.
When Facebook began selling shares to the public and trading on the NASDAQ on May 18, 2012, its shares were issued at $38, which meant the company was valued at more than US$100 billion. It also meant that Facebook was worth more than eBay, Yahoo, Groupon, LinkedIn, Netflix, IAC, AOL, Zynga and Pandora… combined.
The first name Zuckerberg gave his social network was Thefacebook.com. It was on the advice of Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, that they decided to change the name to Facebook. The company had to pay $200,000 to acquire the domain name!
On average, a Facebook user spends between 18 and 20 minutes on their account. Combined, all users would spend 20 billion minutes on Facebook.
Every morning when they wake up, 48% of Americans aged 18 to 34 check their Facebook account. 28% of this demographic group check their Facebook page before even getting out of bed.
The average Facebook user is exposed to 1,500 different potential pieces of content every day.
About 7.5 million websites have Facebook’s “Like” or “Share” buttons on their pages.
Although the Facebook social network is officially blocked by the Chinese Communist Party, there are about 95 million users in China.
Facebook’s engineers originally wanted to call the “Like” button “Awesome.”
Every 20 minutes on Facebook, 1 million links are shared, 2 million friend requests are made and 3 million messages are sent.
4.5 billion “Likes” are clicked every day on Facebook.
There are 1.3 billion monthly users on Facebook, 680 million of them on mobile devices.
People share 1.3 million pieces of content on Facebook every minute.
On April 9, 2012, Facebook acquired the mobile social network Instagram for US$1 billion.
On November 15, 2010, Facebook bought the domain name fb.com, Facebook’s initials, for US$8.5 million!
On February 19, 2014, Facebook bought the instant messaging app “WhatsApp” for US$9 billion!
A product engineer working at Facebook in the United States earns US$172,343 a year.
According to the highly respected Forbes magazine, Facebook ranks as the 15th best employer in the United States!
