Important Facts about Facebook – GENERAL AWARENESS 2014 for IBPS/SBI/RRB

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Google is looking over its shoulder as Facebook grows at over 10 million users a month and sits currently at number two on web traffic rankings according to Alexa.com. Last year Facebook surpassed Google for the top ranking for total time spent online. Facebook has also become the 3rd largest video website with 46.6 million viewers sitting behind number one ranked video content property provider Google with its YouTube site and Yahoo at second ranking. So let us look about Some amazing facts about Facebook :

FACEBOOK :

1. Named after a Harvard student directory that included student photos and profiles,
Facebook was originally called “the facebook” and was limited to only Harvard students. In
2005, the site was renamed “Facebook.”

2. Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by ConnectU who claimed that Zuckerburg
stole the idea and Technology for Facebook (the issue was settled out of court)

3. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook

4. Both citizens and police departments are increasingly using Facebook to catch suspected
criminals.
thefacebook.com ~ Facebook when founded look like this !!!

5. Facebook has more than One billion active users

6. About 600 million People are using the Facebook in Mobile Devices

7.United States is the Country Having most Facebook Users in the world around 166 million
Members

8. Facebook has 3,976 Employees as of June 30, and still trying to Hire more and more

9.The "Social Network " Movie based on the Facebook had won Four Golden Globes.

10.The Median Age of the Facebook is Age 26 in 2008, 19 in 2006.Now it was exactly 22.

11. One of the Co-Founder of Facebook Chris Hughes Served as an Online Organiszng
Director for Barac Obama Presidential Campaign.
Mark Zuckerberg - Founder of Facebook !!

12. An Average Woman Update their Status 21 times per month, where Men is Just Six
times.

13. About 250 Million Photos are Uploaded to the Facebook site daily.

14. About 95% of US online consumers have Facebook accounts, where their Twitter is Just
62%.

15. Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook.

16.. The first person to invest in Facebook was the cofounder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who
invested $500,000 in June 2004

17. There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook.

18. Al Pacino‟s face was on the original Facebook homepage

19. One early Facebook function was a file sharing service

20. Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion

21.It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google (at the moment)
Facebook Logo !!!

22. There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages

23. Texas Hold‟em Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 41 million fans

24. Iceland used Facebook to rewrite its constitution!

25. Adding the number 4 to the end of Facebook‟s URL will automatically direct you to
Mark Zuckerberg‟s wall.

26. Facebook pays $500 to anyone who can hack into it!.

Unbelievable Facts about FACEBOOK :

1. 1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook

2. 35+ demographic represents more than 30% of the entire user base

3. 71.2 % of all USA internet users are on Facebook

4. In 20 minutes 1,000,000 links are shared on Facebook

5. In 20 minutes 1,484,000 event invites are posted

6. In 20 minutes 1,323,000 photos are tagged

7. In 20 minutes 1,851,000 status updates are entered

8. In 20 minutes 1.972 million friend requests are accepted

9. In 20 minutes 2,716,000 photos are uploaded

10. In 20 minutes 2,716,000 messages are sent

11. In 20 minutes 10.2 million comments are posted

12. In 20 minutes 1,587,000 wall posts are written

13. 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year‟s weekend

14. 48% of young Americans said they found out about news through Facebook

15. 48% of 18 to 34 year olds check Facebook right when they wake up

16. 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day

17. Average user has 130 friends

18. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook

19. There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and
community pages)

20. Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events

21. Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month

22. More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes,
photo albums, etc.) shared each month.

23. More than 70 translations available on the site

24. About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States

25. Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application

26. Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook
Platform

27. People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day

28. Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external
websites

29. Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites
integrate with Facebook every day

30. More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including over 80 of
comScore‟s U.S. Top 100 websites and over half of comScore‟s Global Top 100
websites

31. There are more than 250 million active users currently accessing Facebook through
their mobile devices

32. People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook
than non-mobile users.

33. There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and
promote Facebook mobile products

34. Al Pacino‟s face was on the original Facebook homepage

35. One early Facebook function was a file sharing service

36. The first “Work Networks” as well as the original educational networks included
Apple and Microsoft

37. The meaning of the term poke has never been defined

38. There is an „App‟ to see what‟s on the Facebook cafe menu

39. Mark Zuckerburg (CEO of Facebook) calls himself a “Harvard Graduate” when in
fact he didn‟t graduate (apparently his reply is that “there isn‟t a setting for dropout”)

40. Australian‟s spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7
hours on average

41. A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4,000 on eBay

42. Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel the co-founder of PayPal for
$500,000

43. It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google (at the moment)

44. Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion

45. Facebook makes money through advertising and virtual products

46. Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by ConnectU who claimed that
Zuckerburg stole the idea and Technology for Facebook (the issue was settled out of
court)

47. The USA has the largest Facebook user base with 155 million people which
represents 23.6% of Facebook‟s total users

48. There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages

49. Texas Hold‟em Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 41 million fans

50. More than 650 million active users