Facebook has taken over a billion active users

Today, on his official facebook page, Mark Zuckerberg said that this morning active users on the social network exceeded 1 billion people.

If you are reading this: thank you for giving me and my small team the privilege of working for you

Helping a billion people to communicate is amazing, and, of course, the thing that I am most proud of in my life
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I am ready to work every day to make Facebook better for you, and I hope that together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world to us too.

- Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook

According to the company, since their inception, these users have “provided” 1.12 trillion “likes”, 219 billion photos and 17 billion “checks.”