Facebook Reaches 500 Million Users!

It's official: Facebook is on its way to becoming a continent.  

This week the social networking website announced that it has registered its 500 millionth user.  While it’s difficult to say how many people actually use the accounts they’ve created and how often, the number of people who have bothered to sign up – half a billion! – is a striking milestone nonetheless.  To give you a better sense of how astronomical that figure is, consider the following facts:

- There are more people on Facebook than there are in the United State, Russia, and England combined.

- There are almost as many people on Facebook as the number of people who speak the English language.  More people use Facebook than speak Spanish.

-  There are more Facebook accounts than the number of newspapers printed daily around the world.

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