The economy may be underwater, but at least someone’s doing well. Facebook membership is increasing nearly exponentially these days, with almost 600,000 new users a day. Yeah, that’s a lot.

A good 70% of the increase comes from outside the US, as social networking catches on around the globe. And the other 30% is from people finally realizing that you quite literally don’t exist in today’s society without a Facebook account.

Here are some fun facts courtesy of Inside Facebook:

• 13 million users update their statuses at least once each day
• 2.5 million users become fans of Pages each day
• 700 million photos are uploaded to the site each month
• 4 million videos are uploaded each month
• 15 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared each month
• 2 million events created each month
• 19 million active groups exist on the site

So how many people think that Facebook is secretly run by the government and is being used to spy on us?