Facebook users are a pretty important group of people; after all, in recent months, it's been established that there are more of them than there are individuals in the United States.  So to wrap up 2009, Facebook's provided a list that helps spell out what its users have been thinking about all year

What a wonderful world social networking really is. We can hide behind whatever we want and the ways we connect is just growing by the day.

Facebook has 30,000 servers supporting its operations. That number comes from Jeff Rothschild, the vice president of technology at Facebook, who discussed the company’s infrastructure in a presentation last week at UC San Diego (link via High Scalability).