Facebook reaches one billion users

October 5, 2012 - 9:28 am | Category: Tech

Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday morning that Facebook now has one billion active users.

That means one in every seven people on the planet is Facebooking. More than 166 million Americans sign onto the site at least once a month, as do 20 residents of the Vatican. Most of the growth in the past year has been in Asia and South America.

Although it took the social network six years to reach 500 million users, it has doubled that number in just two more years.