By The Numbers: 17 Amazing Facebook Stats

With Facebook reaching the 1 billion user mark earlier this week, I thought it may be fun to research and curate a listing of other Facebook user stats.

Here are a few amazing stats that illustrate just how vast the Facebook empire is.

• Total number of users: 1 billion (Tweet this stat)
• Daily active users: 552 million  (Tweet this stat)
• Total number of pages: 42 million  (Tweet this stat)
• Total number of groups: Still searching
• Total number of mobile users: 600 million  (Tweet this stat)
• Total number of apps: 9 million  (Tweet this stat)
• Total number of friend connections: 140.3 billion  (Tweet this stat)
• Average number of friends per user: 140.3 (no link, just simple math)  (Tweet this stat)
• Total number of likes since launch: 1.13 trillion  (Tweet this stat)
• Average daily likes: 2.7 billion  (Tweet this stat)
• Total number of location-tagged posts: 17 billion  (Tweet this stat)
• Total number of uploaded photos: 219 billion  (Tweet this stat)
• Average daily uploaded photos: 250 million  (Tweet this stat)
• Average time spent per visit: 20 minutes  (Tweet this stat)
• Total number of events created: Still searching
• Total number of offers made: Still searching
• Total 2012 advertising revenue (projected): $4.2 billion  (Tweet this stat)
• Total number of daily compromised logins: 600,000  (Tweet this stat)
• Total number of “bogus” users accounts: 83 million  (Tweet this stat)
• Total number of Instagram users (owned by Facebook): 100 million  (Tweet this stat)

Got a Facebook user stat you’d like to see here? Leave a comment and let me know!

Please note that some of these numbers are easier to find than others, so some of these are based on reports and not official company tallies. Basically, this is the best I can find and I don’t guarantee anything to be 100% accurate.