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Among adult Facebook users, the average (mean) number of friends is 338, and the median (midpoint) number of friends is 200. In other words, half of all Facebook users have more than 200 friends, and half have less than 200. Younger users tend to have significantly larger friend networks than older users: 27% of 18-29 year old Facebook users have more than 500 friends in their network, while 72% of users age 65+ have 100 friends or fewer.
But even the median user has a lot of reach, with 31,170 people connected through friends-of-friends. (MORE: Facebook Timeline: 5 Things You Need to Know) Statisticians probably figured this out a long time ago. After all, with the average Facebook user having 245 friends according to Pew, and the average friend of that user having 359 friends, one personâs reach can easily get into the tens of thousands even after you account for overlap.