We are sure a lot has been written about how massive Facebook is and how many users it serves on a daily basis plus some more facts that come in from time to time, what we’ve done is, we’ve tried and gather the most enthralling ones and put them here. Check out, feel free to add more in the comments section.

1. 1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook

2. Everyday, more than 10 million users become fans of Pages. Join us

3. An average user has 130 friends on Facebook.

4. In 2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, where he placed photos of undergraduates side by side so viewers could rank which one was “hotter.” Zuckerberg would later turn Facemash into the now ubiquitous Facebook.

5. 35+ demographic represents more than 30% of the entire user base

6. 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend on 2011

7. An 18-year-old Wisconsin man posed as several different girls on Facebook to blackmail underage male teens into performing sexual favors by coaxing them to send nude photos of themselves. He could be facing up to 300 years in prison.

8. In 2008, a 23-year-old woman named Lauren Michaels created a group titled “I Need Sex” on Facebook. Within 10 minutes, she had 35 members and soon attracted 100—50 of whom she eventually slept with. Facebook has since removed her page.

9. A Facebook user spend more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook on an average.

10. In June 2008, Mark Zuckerberg paid a 65 million dollar settlement to close a long-running legal battle, concerning whether Mark stole the Facebook idea from his former room mate.

11. Facebook has headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. U.S. offices: Atlanta; Chicago; Dallas; Detroit; New York; Venice Beach, Calif. International offices: Dublin, Ireland; London; Paris; Sydney; Toronto.

12. Psychologists have introduced the diagnosis FAD (Facebook Addiction Disorder), as a new kind of addiction.. Perhaps SMAA can help.

13. A recent survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers affirmed looking at social networking sites such as Facebook to evaluate applicants. 38% of admissions officers said that what they saw negatively affected the applicant.

14. The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales warned that Facebook and MySpace can lead children to commit suicide because such sites encourage teens to build transient relationships and dehumanize community life

15. Ex-burglars claim that they use Social Networking Sites such as Facebook and other to Plan Burglary 

16. The New Oxford Dictionary announced that the 2009 Word of the Year was “unfriend,” as in “to remove someone as a friend on a social networking site” such as Facebook. However, there is some debate whether the word should be “defriend” rather than “unfriend.

17. There are more than 1.5 million active Pages on Facebook and have created more than 5.3 billion fans!

18. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook

19. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events

20. Approximately 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States.

21.  More than 15,000 websites, devices and applications have integrated Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008

22. More than 70 translations are available on the site and about 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States

23. Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook.

24. The first person to invest in Facebook was the cofounder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who invested $500,000 in June 2004.

25. Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform

26. In 2005, East Asia’s richest man, Li Hu Shing, invested $120 million dollars in Facebook.

27. Lamebook.com is a regularly updated site that reposts “lame” and funny Facebook user posts.

28. Twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss claim Zuckerberg stole their idea after they hired him to do programming for their own site, Harvard Connect (ConnectU). The case was settled for an undisclosed sum. Others, such as fellow student, Aaron Greenspan, also claim they invented Facebook.

29. Named after a Harvard student directory that included student photos and profiles, Facebook was originally called “thefacebook” and was limited to only Harvard students. In 2005, the site was renamed “Facebook.”

30. When Facebook changed its privacy setting in December 2009, Zuckerberg’s previously private photos—in which he was seen shirtless, holding a teddy bear, and looking “plastered”—became public.

31. Both citizens and police departments are increasingly using Facebook and other social networking sites to get hold of suspected criminals.

32. In Australia it is valid protocol to serve court notices to defendants on Facebook. A summons posted on Facebook is legally binding

33. Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage

34. Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by ConnectU who claimed that Zuckerburg stole the idea and Technology for Facebook

35. A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4,000 on eBay

36. Mark Zuckerburg (CEO of Facebook) calls himself a “Harvard Graduate” when in fact he didn’t graduate

37. The first “Work Networks” as well as the original educational networks included Apple and Microsoft

38. A 20-year-old IBM employee in Canada lost sick leave benefits from her insurer because her Facebook page showed “cheerful” photos while she was on paid sick leave for depression.

39. A “gaydar” software program developed at MIT can reportedly identify gay men on Facebook, private profile or not

40. People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day.

41. Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day.

42. In 20 minutes 1,000,000 links are shared, 1,484,000 event invites are posted, 1,323,000 photos are tagged, 1,851,000 status updates are entered, 1.972 million friend requests are accepted, 2,716,000 photos are uploaded, 2,716,000 messages are sent, 10.2 million comments are posted, 1,587,000 wall posts are written on Facebook.

43. There is an ‘App’ to see what’s on the Facebook cafe menu

44. There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices. People who use Facebook on their mobile devices are almost 50% more active than non-mobile users!

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The DNetWorks Team