Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers.
The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections.

Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.

More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
More than 350,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
More than 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users
More than 15,000 websites, devices and applications have implemented Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008

Average user has 130 friends on the site
More than 8 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
More than 45 million status updates each day
More than 10 million users become fans of Pages each day

There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are almost 50% more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
There are more than 180 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products.

More than 2 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
More than 14 million videos uploaded each month
More than 2 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week
More than 3 million events created each month
More than 45 million active user groups exist on the site.