Facebook has 15 million users in India: Launcheed Hyderabad centre on Sept.30th

Users of Facebook, one of the leading social networking sites, can rest assured about the security of information they share with family, friends and colleagues.


The social networking site is spending huge amounts in “seeing patterns” in the content being sent on the site. “We have invested sufficiently in ensuring that the network is safe,” Facebook global online operations director Don Faul has said. Mr. Faul was responding to queries on concerns expressed on the security front regarding the vulnerability of social networking sites to become conduits for transmitting virus and incapacitating crucial systems.


All efforts are being made to check authenticity of users and investments are being made to secure users' trust for the site for sending information besides keeping the site spam-free. Facebook commenced its Indian operations by formally launching its Hyderabad centre, the first centre outside the United States, on Thursday.


 “We are seeing a tonne of momentum with our 15 million users, developers and advertisers. It is an incredible time to start operations in India,” director online operations and head of India office Kirthiga Reddy said. With these 15 million users, who the company claims to be “really influential users”, the company is eyeing to rope in more advertisers as well as bring in more software developers.


With more than 500 million users worldwide, Facebook has 35 million users updating their status on a daily basis, while another 55 million status updates are being posted each day. While more than 2.5 billion photos are uploaded each month, more than 3.5 billion pieces of content is being shared each week.


There are an estimated 1.6 million active pages including 7 lakh pages of local businesses and Facebook has more than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries. More than 65 million active users access Facebook on their mobile devices and people using. Facebook on their mobiles are found to be 50 per cent more active on the site than the non-mobile users.