10 interesting facts about Facebook

1. 60+% of people online use Facebook to stalk their ex! Now are you one of them?
2. Close to a billion photos uploaded on Facebook every month! I’m sure many of these pictures are taken just to post on Facebook.
3. 30+ million profiles have their status messages updated at least once every day. Here’s a link to some funny facebook status messages.
4. 70% of college students on Facebook log in every single day, that’s no surprise now, is it?
5. Facebook deletes accounts of mothers or anyone who posts pictures of breastfeeding. So you want to be careful now about the pics you think of putting up!
6. Facebook deletes accounts with strange sounding names like “Leboe”, “Allien”, etc. Guess it’s do with their policy of not allowing fake accounts and them thinking these are not valid names?
7. There’s something known as a Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD)! Wonder how many of you suffer from that?
8. Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is the world’s youngest billionaire! Mark’s surely made money off all of us.
9. Syria has banned Facebook apparently to prevent an uprising of sorts by people getting together.
10. Facebook has ruined the careers of many a politician. More details about the political facebook scandals can be found here.

Statistics about Facebook

Company Figures

• More than 350 million active users
• 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
• More than 35 million users update their status each day
• More than 55 million status updates posted each day
• More than 2.5 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
• More than 3.5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week
• More than 3.5 million events created each month
• More than 1.6 million active Pages on Facebook
• More than 700,000 local businesses have active Pages on Facebook
• Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans

Average User Figures

• Average user has 130 friends on the site
• Average user sends 8 friend requests per month
• Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook
• Average user clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month
• Average user writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month
• Average user becomes a fan of 2 Pages each month
• Average user is invited to 3 events per month
• Average user is a member of 12 groups

International Growth

• More than 70 translations available on the site
• About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
• Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application

FaceBook covered in 60 minutes documentary

Facebook was featured in TV program 60 minutes on 31st Jan 2008. Here's the video clips from Youtube in 2 parts.

Part 1 (5:58)


Part 2 (7:16)

What is Facebook?

I have heard of Facebook but never really know what it is all about. Here's what I found out today.

1. Facebook is a social networking site that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.
2. Users of Facebook can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.
3. Users can also join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region.

Why the name "Facebook" ?

• It comes from the colloquial name of books given to students at the start of the university academic year so that they can get to know other students better.

So I realised that Facebook is actually, an online book of faces!