Facebook by the Numbers

So, here’s where Facebook stood in 2010 according to Mashable:

Facebook by the Numbers

“Here’s a look at Facebook activity from a randomly chosen 20 minutes:

Shared links: 1,000,000
Tagged photos: 1,323,000
Event invites sent out: 1,484,000
Wall posts: 1,587,000
Status updates: 1,851,000
Friend requests accepted: 1,972,000
Photos uploaded: 2,716,000
Comments: 10,208,000
Messages: 4,632,000
Likes: 7,657,000

“The numbers also offer a snapshot into Facebook users’ love lives in 2010. Some 43,869,800 people changed their relationship status to single during the year while 3,025,791 changed it to “it’s complicated.” Another 28,460,516 changed their status to in a relationship, 5,974,574 to engaged and 36,774,801 to married.”

This video also details some of the hottest topics on Facebook, including the Chilean mine collapse and the new acronym HMU.”

Stephen