Thursday, December 30, 2010
Bizarre Facts You Ought to Know about FaceBook
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I have been dangling around the internet and happen to see some interesting facts about facebook. So i did more research and tried to find out the fun facts about the social giant Facebook for my blog visitors. Without making you bored with my talkings i would like to focuss into the topic straightly. Following are the bizarre facts you ought to know about facebook. Just let me know your opinion about these funfacts and lets discuss and make it more fun in the comment section.More than 60 % of men and women have used Facebook to stalk their ex...
It’s like godsend for jilted ex-lovers who want to know each & everything their ex is doing after dumping them! Your ex will not know you’re following their every move & there’s no way you’ll get caught… perfect! No more public humiliation & so much information....lol
??? Pictures Uploaded Monthly on Facebookwe all keep posting all our photos on Facebook to share with our friends but have you ever stopped to wonder how many pictures are uploaded monthly??? The answer is 1 Billion!! That means 333,333,333 photos every day! No wonder the site keeps getting stuck so many times… I don’t blame you Facebook!
Active users
Lets take a look at the number of active members in Facebook over the years. In Dec 2004 there were 1 million active users in Facebook which grew to 5.5 million in 2005, 12 million in 2006, 50 million in 2007, 100 million in 2008 & has increased to 250 million as of July 2009!!! That is a growth of 250% in 5 years. Really man, Facebook IS making the world a smaller place.More than 40 million users update their status at least once each day
This is not so much about Facebook but about how people lose their mind sometimes on Facebook. We all know that Facebook allows you to update your Status… but some people really take it to another level! I just couldn’t leave these gems out; you have to see for yourself…
85%+ of all college students use FACEBOOK and 70% of them log in EVERYDAY
Facebook is a favorite for all age groups but it seems that young people, especially the college going crowd have played a major role in making Facebook what it is. 85% of college students have Facebook profiles & 60-70% of them login daily or at least one a week. I reckon the college authorities should start havingFacebook as a subject, what say people!Facebook Hates Breastfeeding Mothers!
This is weird but had to be mentioned… Facebook apparently removes photos uploaded by mothers breastfeeding their babies; some accounts have even been deleted for this. Really Facebook?? I really don’t even want to know why!
Al Pacino's Face Was on the Original Facebook Homepage
Prior to a major homepage redesign back in 2007, Facebook’s front page used to feature a man’s face partly obscured behind a cloud of binary code.
Dubbed the “Facebook guy,” it was not known who the mystery man was — until recently. David Kirkpatrick has revealed in his book “The Facebook Effect” that the image is a manipulated photo of Al Pacino created by a friend and classmate of Mark Zuckerberg.
The First “Work Networks” Included Apple and Microsoft
Many of you may know about Facebook’s initial staggered rollout, where they started with Ivy League colleges before encompassing other educational institutions. But do you know who Facebook first went corporate with in terms of official work places?
In May 2006, Apple and Microsoft were among the first, as was Intel, EA and Amazon. Others in the first round also included Accenture, Gap, Intuit, Pepsi, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the non-profit organization Teach for America. It wasn’t until September 2006 that everyone, regardless of school or company affiliation, could join Facebook — and just over a year later the site hit 50 million active users.
The Meaning of the Term Poke Has Never Been Defined
While Facebook explains how “poking” works on its help center, there’s no explanation to be found for the origin of the phrase. The most common definition is a friendly “nudge,” but the more flirtatious connotations cannot be ignored.
David Kirkpatrick reveals in The Facebook Effect that Zuckerberg once responded to a question about what a poke meant on the social networking site with: “We thought it would be fun to make a feature that has no specific purpose… So mess around with it, because you’re not getting an explanation from us.”
There’s an App to See What’s on the Facebook Cafe Menu
Like at Google, Facebook staffers get three free meals a day (as well as free drinks and snackage) served up by the “Facebook Culinary Team” at Cafe X or Cafe 6.
If the staff want to know what’s on the menu, they don’t need to leave their seats. In fact, they don’t even need to leave their Facebook profiles — the “Lunchtime” Facebook app offers a weekly view of what’s being offered. And it looks real good.
Mark Zuckerberg Calls Himself a “Harvard Graduate"
As you can see for yourself over at facebook.com/zuck (the personalized URL Zuckerberg nabbed for himself), Mark Zuckerberg tells a little fib on his profile page. He lists himself as a “Harvard Graduate,” which simply isn’t true, as he dropped out to concentrate on getting Facebook up and running.
When 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl confronted Zuckerberg with this little inconsistency, he said “That’s true. We don’t have a setting for dropout.”
Er, memo to Zuck — you kind of have the power to make that happen…
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Mohit Baskota
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Mohit baskota is a computer Engineering student at NIT,Jaipur.A tech enthusiast and a FOSS advocate with interest in photography.Follow him on Twitter
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2 Responses to “Bizarre Facts You Ought to Know about FaceBook”
January 4, 2011 at 1:43 PM
amazing!!! loved yo read it!!! Carry on bro!!! :)
January 4, 2011 at 7:09 PM
thanx buddy !!
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