FaceBook Statistics 2010- Why EyeCare Professionals Should Get Involved

Written by Cathy on February 24, 2010 – 7:51 pm -

Wondering if you the eyecare professional or sales rep should get into Facebook, or you haven’t updated or even placed a picture on Facebook. Check out the lastest 2010 Facebook stats and then go and update your page.

Statistics From Facebook

Company Figures

  • More than 400 million active users
  • 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
  • More than 35 million users update their status each day
  • More than 60 million status updates posted each day
  • More than 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
  • More than 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week
  • More than 3.5 million events created each month
  • More than 3 million active Pages on Facebook
  • More than 1.5 million local businesses have active Pages on Facebook
  • More than 20 million people become fans of Pages each day
  • Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans

Average User Figures

  • Average user has 130 friends on the site
  • Average user sends 8 friend requests per month
  • Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook
  • Average user clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month
  • Average user writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month
  • Average user becomes a fan of 4 Pages each month
  • Average user is invited to 3 events per month
  • Average user is a member of 13 groups

International Growth

  • More than 70 translations available on the site
  • About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
  • Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application

Platform

  • 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 500,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
  • More than 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users
  • More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008
  • More than 60 million Facebook users engage with Facebook Connect on external websites every month
  • Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have implemented Facebook Connect

Mobile

  • There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
  • People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
  • There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products

Photo: istrategylabs.com

So who is on Facebook? iStrategy labs who has been tracking Facebook since 2007, just released this important information, which is also available on Facebook Social Ad. What’s important:
Note age group using FB- Fashion-eyesta’s about and disposable income. New York, Chicago and Los Angeles lead the pack in Facebookers, that means if you are not in those areas, I definitely would consider signing up FOR FREE and get involved in the wave of social media and marketing!

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2 Responses to “FaceBook Statistics 2010- Why EyeCare Professionals Should Get Involved”

  1. By Nate BW on Feb 25, 2010 | Reply

    Great! Keep social media in sight!

    Go team! :)

  2. By Amy Schneider on Feb 26, 2010 | Reply

    Great information Cathy! The statistics are proof that social media should be on everyone’s marketing radar.

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