Facebook User Statistics

Commenters repeatedly cite official sources like Statista showing Facebook's billions of monthly and daily active users to counter anecdotal claims that the platform is declining or irrelevant based on personal experience.

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MarkMc Mar 27, 2018 View on HN

Not sure why you were downvoted. Their daily user count is 1.4 billion: https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...

volida Feb 23, 2009 View on HN

You really believe that "Facebook doesn't consider 175 million users"?

TekMol Nov 23, 2018 View on HN

Look at the daily active users then:https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...

bignoggins May 29, 2012 View on HN

It's 900 million monthly active users. Say what you will about FB but they don't use vanity metrics.

tofuahdude Dec 9, 2022 View on HN

Facebook has 2.96 billion MAUs.Not relevant?

williamstein Jan 30, 2025 View on HN

And yet Facebook has 3 billion monthly active users: https://www.demandsage.com/facebook-statistics/

arglebarglegar Sep 12, 2021 View on HN

facebook has billions of monthly users, there’s no way you interact with even 1% of that, so anecdotal feelings are completely meaningless!

city41 Jan 4, 2022 View on HN

Facebook is just shy of 3 billion monthly active users. More than one third the planet's population. If ever there was a company that anecdotal evidence doesn't work, it'd be this one.

neurobashing Dec 14, 2018 View on HN

I feel you but a quick search finds "As of the third quarter of 2018, Facebook had 2.27 billion monthly active users"so solve for that, not your dozen or so social group.

granzymes Feb 6, 2024 View on HN

Facebook has 3 billion monthly active users and that number is increasing.If that’s not doing fine, what the hell is?