epa04901364 (FILE) A file picture dated 28 November 2013 shows a man using the social networking site Facebook on his phone at a cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam. More than one billion people logged into the social media network Facebook in one day, marking a new record for the company, said Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on 27 August 2015. The 31-year-old entrepreneur said the milestone was the 'beginning of connecting the whole world,' according to a message on his Facebook site. EPA/LUONG THAI LINH
Out of the 1.79 billion monthly active users, 1.66 billion access their Facebook account through a mobile device, numbers according to Facebook.
The popularity of the social network on smartphone can be attributed to the fact that all the Facebook features on desktop are available to users on mobile as well. Here are some of the features added to the Facebook and its Messenger app in the last few updates, which you may not have noticed.
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