In 2004, when he invented the social platform initially reserved for universities but which then drove the whole world crazy, the optimist Mark Zuckerberg would hardly have predicted that in just 8 years Facebook would reach one billion active users: almost 15% of the entire population of the planet, and an even higher percentage if we consider only Internet users.
The coveted and extraordinary milestone was reached today, celebrated by the founder and CEO with these words: "Helping a billion people connect is the thing I'm most proud of in my life". To be precise, there are 600 million truly active users, i.e. who access via mobile platforms at least once a month. Members have generated 140,3 billion friendship connections; moreover, they have shared 219 billion photographs on the online social network since 2005, excluding deleted images, and 300 million are uploaded every day: on the other hand, the blue "F" social network begins its journey as a university yearbook on the web that collected the profiles of students on campus.
User activity also translates into 1,13 trillion “likes” and 17 billion place check-ins, while there are 185 applications for iOS and Android integrated with the online social network and 235 million subscribers play through the social network. And then there's everything else, everything that revolves around Zuckerberg's creature: there are 9 million applications and websites integrated with Facebook.
