Sandvine you are at the right place and time :) !!!!Incredible to say the least !!! So if you think you are in the wrong stock...think again :) $$$ Facebook hits milestone a billion people logged in on a single day, 1/7 of world population Aug 28, 2015 Barbara Ortutay, The Associated Press 0 NEW YORK, N.Y. A billion people logged in to Facebook on a single day this week, marking the first time that many members used the worlds largest online social network in a 24-hour period. The number amounts to one-seventh of the Earths population. Mondays milestone was mostly symbolic for Facebook, which boasts nearly 1.5 billion users who log in at least once a month. But CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who founded the network in his Harvard dorm room 11 years ago, reflected on the occasion with a post. Im so proud of our community for the progress weve made, he wrote. Our community stands for giving every person a voice, for promoting understanding and for including everyone in the opportunities of our modern world. Facebook achieved 1 billion overall users in 2012, but this weeks milestone is perhaps more significant. It means the social network has become an essential service in many of our lives, a sort of online connective tissue that binds us to friends, family and even strangers who find themselves in similar circumstances. We need it daily, or more. Facebook has long sought to connect everyone in the world with its service. A lofty goal, its not so different from the three other tech superpowers that are changing commerce, communication and worming their way into every part of our lives. Apple has its gadgets, Amazon delivers our every physical need and Google, well, when was the last time you went a day without Google? (Google, incidentally, receives an average of 100 billion search requests per day, which makes it likely that more than a billion people use it daily.) Most of the billion people who logged in to Facebook on Monday were outside the U.S. and Canada. Of Facebooks overall users, more than 83 per cent come from other countries. In a video posted Thursday, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebooks chief operating officer, mulled what a billion really means. Look closely, and youll see more than a number, she said in the video, a montage showing Facebook users photos, posts and videos from all over the world. Its moms and little brothers and cousins and cousins of cousins. Theres Sam, Dante, Ingrid and Lawrence. Its camping trips, religion theres likes, loves and unfortunately still some hate. Look past the number. Youll find friendships. As it grows, Facebooks next billions of members will likely come from outside the U.S., from India, South America, Africa and perhaps even China, where the site is officially blocked. To help expand its flock, Facebook has been working to make its service easier to use on the basic, old-fashioned phones used in many parts of the world. Its also working to get Internet access to the roughly two-thirds of the worlds population that is not yet connected or about 5 billion people. Two years ago, Facebook launched Internet.org, a partnership with other tech giants that aims to improve Internet connectivity around the world. The groups plans include developing cheaper smartphones and tools that would reduce the amount of data required to run apps, as well as working with telecommunications companies to provide basic, free Internet services. The effort has received some criticism for putting Facebook in the position of Internet gatekeeper, deciding what sites people can access and going against the spirit of net neutrality. Zuckerberg disagreed. Net neutrality ensures network operators dont discriminate by limiting access to services you want to use. Its an essential part of the open Internet, and we are fully committed to it, he wrote in April. To give more people access to the Internet, it is useful to offer some service for free. If someone cant afford to pay for connectivity, it is always better to have some access than none at all.