Facebook, the current craze in the social networking world, crossed the 12-million user benchmark in India. More and more people are joining the site to share their lives, videos and photos etc. in the virtual world. More than 53 million photos are uploaded by Indians on Facebook every month, and with the advancement of technology, the usage of Facebook on mobile has also gone up by nine-folds throughout this year.

Facebook is fast growing and becoming more and more popular all over the world, giving tough competition to and almost catching up with Orkut, especially in India and Brazil, where people have been mostly using the Google creation for social networking purpose since a very long time.

On a global basis, Facebook is estimated to have around 500 million active users every day. In just the previous month, the company had declared that it will launch its Indian operations in a Hyderabad centre. This Hyderabad office is the first ever for Facebook in the Asian region, and will provide additional operations besides the operations supported at the centres of Palo Alto, California, Dublin, Ireland, and the recently-declared centre at Austin in Texas.