Users of Facebook

As you already know Facebook gained its popularity very quickly. Facebook users increased from just a million in 2004 to over 800 million in 2012.

The graph shows how the Facebook users increased from 2004 to 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Facebook_popularity.PNG

The picture above shows you the spread between the age groups that use Facebook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Facebook_users_by_age.PNG

There is also a spread between the countries using Facebook.

• United States with 152.5 million members,
•  India with 43.5 million members 
• Indonesia with 43.1 million members
•  Brazil with 37.9 million members 
• Mexico with 32.0 million members

All of the above data total 309 million members or about 38.6 % of Facebook's worldwide members.

The picture shows as well as the past 3 possible predictions of the future growth of the users. The link below leads to the article related to that topic.

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27243/