How Many Facebook Users Are There In The World ?
Today, we live in a technology world. Every day we use electronic devices. We even started to be able to do nothing without them. Thank the internet, we can connect everyone at everywhere at any time. It provides communication with all over the world at the same time and it facilitates to access to information. We all use social media nowadays. There are many social network applications or websites to do that. Facebook is one of the most used applications in social networks.
Statistical Facts About Social Network Apps
Now, we have a lot of significant and valuable data about usage of Facebook all over the world. There are more than 2.07 billion monthly active Facebook users in the 3rd quarter of 2017 and it increases 16% each year. In the world, 1.15 billion people use Facebook daily from their mobile. On December 2016 it increased 23% due to the previous year. 1.37 billion people log on to Facebook every day. In Europe more than 307 million people use Facebook. Every second 5 profile is created by people. If we look Facebook user’s age, 29.7% of the user between 25-34 years old. All over the world, 77% of women use Facebook and 66% of men use Facebook. The most commonly used time zone of Facebook is between 1 pm to 3 pm. According to Forbes, if you post something at 7 pm on Facebook. You may see that you can reach more people than other times. You can get more clicks. On Thursdays and Fridays, Facebook usage is 18% higher than other days. Also, marketing and advertisements are more common at that time. Evey day more than 300 million photos are uploaded on Facebook. 50% of young adults (18-24 years old) start to use Facebook when they wake up. More than 8 billion business page created on Facebook. Let’s look at the usage of other common applications to compare. There are almost (monthly) 1.2 billion WhatsApp users, 1.5 billion YouTube users, 1.2 billion Facebook Messanger users, 328 million Twitter users, 700 million Instagram users. 225 million Snapchat users and 889 million Weechat users around the world.
Why Do We Use Them
There is too much reason to use these applications. First of all, it connects everyone in the world. Someone is sharing something and we all can see it on social media. We can learn other people’s life, their thoughts, their feelings. We actually use social media thinking that it will destroy our loneliness but use of too many increases the loneliness. We do not communicate with people in real life. Our life on the internet is actually reflected very differently from the truth. On the other hand, it makes easier to do shopping, interacting with people, meeting with people and catch what is going on around the world. 55% of people use it to keep in touch with their friends. Also, it harms our health. We do not do enough exercise at a day. We work online, we talk online, we do everything online. Now, please go offline and take a fresh air and walk on that beautiful day.
