Some stats and an infographic via Fast Company, offers a glimpse in to just how enormous an influencer and business Facebook is:

• 610,736,920 member profiles. One for every 11 people on earth.
• Based on page views and users, Facebook is the NO. 2 site in U.S., behind Google; ahead of YouTube or Yahoo.
• Every 60 seconds users send 230,000 messages, update 95,000 statuses, write 80,000 wall posts, tag 65,000 photos, share 50,000 links and add 500,000 comments.
• Te average user creates 90 pieces of content and spends 6 hours, 3 minutes each month

More stats in the Fast Company infographic The Business Of Being Face Book:

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