NEW YORK — You, your mom, your grandma and elementary school buddy, Lawrence, might have been some of the billion people who logged in to Facebook on Monday — the first time that has happened in a single day. That’s
NEW YORK — You, your mom, your grandma and elementary school buddy, Lawrence, might have been some of the billion people who logged in to Facebook on Monday — the first time that has happened in a single day. That’s right, 1 billion people, or one-seventh of the Earth’s population.
It was a big symbolic milestone for the world’s biggest online social network, which boasts nearly 1.5 billion users who log in at least once a month. CEO Mark Zuckerberg marked the occasion with a Facebook post.
Most of the billion people who logged in Monday were outside the U.S. and Canada. Of Facebook’s overall users, more than 83 percent come from other countries. This also is where Facebook’s next billions of users likely will come from as it grows.
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