Eight years after the launch of  Facebook, the social network site has made the announcement that it officially has one billion active users  around the globe, or 1 in every 7 people on the planet. Founder and chief executive of  Facbook, Mark Zuckerberg, took to his personal Facebook account to say that the milestone was

This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month.
If you’re reading this: thank you for giving me and my little team the honor of serving you.
Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.
I am committed to working every day to make Facebook better for you, and hopefully together one day we will be able to connect the rest of the world too.

He has achieved his stated ambition of reaching 1 billion active monthly users just two years and three months after the social network reached the half-billion mark. Facebook reached 900 million active monthly users in April, one month before going public on Wall street.