Nov 6, 2010
FACTS ABOUT FACEBOOK EVERY PERSON SHOULD KNOW ABOUT:-
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FACTS ABOUT FACEBOOK EVERY PERSON SHOULD KNOW ABOUT:-
- Facebook has over 350 million active users. More than 35 million users update their status each day, with more than 55 million status updates each day.
- More than 2.5 billion pictures are uploaded to Facebook each month.
- The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month.
- Among children under 18, Facebook was ranked third in the top 100 searches of 2009, behind YouTube and Google. Sex and porn rounded out the top five searches.
- A recent survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social networking sites such as Facebook to evaluate applicants. Thirty-eight percent of admissions officers said that what they saw negatively affected the applicant.i
- Facebook is not only beating MySpace traffic, but it is also the second-ranked site overall in the U.S. behind Google.
- Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook and five billion minutes on MySpace.
- In 2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, where he placed photos of undergraduates side by side so viewers could rank which one was “hotter.” Zuckerberg would later turn Facemash into the now ubiquitous Facebook.
- In 2008, a 23-year-old woman named Lauren Michaels created a group titled “I Need Sex” on Facebook. Within 10 minutes, she had 35 members and soon attracted 100—50 of whom she eventually slept with. Facebook has since removed her page.
- If Facebook were a country, it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, after China, India, the U.S., and Indonesia.
- A 39-year-old Pennsylvania father was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook.
- The average Facebook users spend more than 55 minutes a day on the site. They use the Like button nine times a month and write 25 comments each month.
- Forbes dubbed 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, the creator/owner of Facebook, as the world’s youngest billionaire, worth 1.5 billion.
- Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook.
- In December 2009, there were over 250 million active users on Facebook, up from 1 million active users in December 2004.
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