Your other chin
In: software
19 Dec 2008I came across an interesting article on Data Center Knowledge. It compiled a few statistics about Facebook usage. Here’s a quick overview:
Total users: 140 million
New users: over 600,000 per day
Users outside the US: 70%
User profiles updated: 13 million per day
Average friends: 100 per user
Photos hosted: 10 billion
Photos added: 700 million per month
Videos added: 4 million per month
Active user groups: 19 million
I showed these stats to my wife, who said “wow, that’s a lot of time wasted.” The Facebook statistics page says that 2.6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day. Calculated out, this amounts to a collective 4,947 human years being wasted every day on Facebook. If we assume it takes one minute to update your Facebook status, that amounts to almost 25 human years being wasted each day just to announce that you’re “watching tv” or “staying inside tonight” (those are the statuses displayed at the top of my Facebook news feed right now).
I'm Jon Chin. I love technology, food, and learning. I served a mission in the Philippines and loved it. You probably can't type on my keyboard because I don't have qwerty installed--I use Colemak. I'm obsessed with learning about North Korea and abandoned anything.