Social Media Quick Facts: Facebook

Here are some of the latest social networking and social media stats for 2011.

• The average Facebook user has 130 friends.
• More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc) is shared each month.
• Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application.
• More than 150 million people engage with Facebook 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 integrated with Facebook.
• There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
• People that access Facebook via mobile are twice as active than non-mobile users (think about that when designing your Facebook page).
• The average Facebook user is connected to 60 pages, groups, and events.
• People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook.
• there are more than 1 million entrepreneurs and developers from 180 countries on Facebook.

Statistics from Facebook press office.