reading time: 1 minute Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and pals are probably already planning the party. With Facebook about to hit the 700 million user mark, wouldn’t you be? According to Socialbakers, a site dedicated to monitoring Facebooks statistics, Facebook’s popularity in countries outside the U.S. appear to be the cause for the giant increase that’s occurred over the past few months. 80 million new sign ups were reported in the first few months of the year, with Brazil leading the way with more than 1.9 million new users on Facebook. That’s a huge jump for a country that had fully embraced Google’s social network Orkut (which never really caught on anywhere else). Other top growing countries on Facebook include: Image via Socialbakers I’d love to hear your feedback. Do any of these stats surprise you? 7YV6ZQVXE7ZR Share this:TwitterFacebook