- In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, where he placed photos of undergraduates side by side so viewers could rank which one was 'hotter'. He then recreated Facemash into the now ubiquitous Facebook. Ever heard of Facemash somewhere? Yes, it's The Social Network everyone. Hands down.
- Facebook has over 600 million active users with more than 35 million users update their status each day.
- The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month.
- More than 2.5 billion pictures are uploaded on Facebook each month. That's no surprise, for the fact that Facebook-ers love marketing themselves.
- Facebook was ranked third in the top 100 searches of 2009, just behind Youtube and Google. Sex and porn rounded out the top five searches. The survey was conducted among the children under 18.
- Not only beating MySpace traffic, Facebook also managed to swap the second-ranked site overall in the US behind Google.
- Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook. I'm pretty sure we'll be catching up to them in no time. Soon fellas, soon.
- If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest country in the world, after China and India.I guess the population would revolve around us. Ha.
- The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales warned that Facebook and Myspace can lead children to commit suicide because such sites encourage teens to build transient relationships and dehumanise community life.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Face The Fact
Lets share some facts I got from Varsity Voice.
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