500 million faces!

God works in His mysterious ways, for example finding one face in 500 million faces. My family has been blessed!

News agencies, AFP reports,

Facebook at 500 million users

SAN FRANCISCO - THE number of people using Facebook hit the 500 million mark on Wednesday, meaning one in every 14 people on the planet has now signed up to the online social-networking service.

'As of this morning, 500 million people all around the world are actively using Facebook to stay connected with their friends and the people around them,' Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post.

'This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook around the world.' To celebrate, the California firm introduced an application that lets members of the online community 'tell the incredible stories of the moving and interesting ways they've used Facebook.' Examples given by Mr Zuckerberg included Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen jogging with Facebook fans during his term as Danish prime minister and a US woman using the service to battle breast cancer.

'Our mission at Facebook is to help make the world more open and connected,' Mr Zuckerberg said. 'I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started 6 years ago.' Mr Zuckerberg has pointed to Facebook's unrelenting growth to rebuff criticism of feature changes or privacy safeguards at the website.