Meta reached a new record number of users

Meta is a truly huge corporation, so the equally huge and massive numbers come as no surprise. After Meta announced its latest financial results on Wednesday, other figures attracted special attention. Among them, the record number of monthly active Facebook users stands out the most: 3.08 billion.

Yes, you read that right, 3.08 billion, which is a 3% increase over the same period last year. If we add to this that there are currently 7.9 billion people in the world, the number of monthly active Facebook users represents as much as 38.4% of the entire global population. Not bad for a company that started in a 19-year-old student's room, right? This growth and scale shows how important Facebook has become for communication, connection and content sharing in the lives of people around the world.

The number is all the more surprising when we consider that China - with a population of 1.4 billion - prohibits the use of the platform within its borders. In addition, there are many people who do not have access to the Internet at all. So Facebook actually uses more than half of the global population that has access to the Internet.

The tech giant reached one billion monthly active users in 2012, and 2 billion in 2017. Six years later, he now has more than 3 billion accounts on its servers.

The majority of Facebook users come from India, where, according to data from the research company Statista, there are as many as 314 million users in January 2023. It is followed by the USA, Indonesia and Brazil, where each country has over 100 million people who regularly use this social network.

However, the path to this extraordinary achievement was not simple and smooth, as Facebook - now known as Meta - has experienced many controversies throughout its history. One of the most high-profile events was the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which affected tens of millions of users, as their personal data was misused for political purposes. This event played a key role in renaming the company from Facebook to Meta approximately two years ago.

One of their latest ventures is the Threads project, which represents a decisive step against the competition, especially against Twitter. Despite the big ambitions, it is difficult to predict at this early stage how this project will perform and how it will affect the current social networking landscape.

Meta remains in a dynamic position where it constantly faces challenges such as maintaining user privacy and security, while at the same time trying to attract new users and maintain the loyalty of existing ones. Their story is an example of success in the world of technology, as they grew from the small room of a 19-year-old student into one of the most influential and largest social networks in the world. Despite all the obstacles and challenges they face, Meta continues to transform the way people communicate, connect and share content, and remains a key player in the digital age.