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Funny Things About Facebook

Read this.. Really amazing as well as funny things about the facebook.

  • 1 in every 13 people in Earth is on Facebook
  • In 20 minutes, 1,000,000 links are shared, 1,484,000 event invites are posted, 1,323,000 photos are tagged, 1,850,000 status updates are entered, 2,000,000 messages are sent, 2,000,000 photos are uploaded.
  • 50% of active users long on to Facebook in any given day.
  • More than 70 translations available on site
  • There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products.
  • The meaning of Poke has been never defined
  • Australian's spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average.
  • It is the second biggest website by traffic behing Google
  • There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages.
  • Users on Facebook more than 800 billion. 3rd largest country in terms of people who are accessing facebook. US with the most number of users 30% and rest of the world with 70%.
  • Burger Kings gave away free burgers to users who unfriend people on facebook :D
  • According to The New Yorker, Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind, which means the color he can see the best is blue. That also happens to be the color that dominates the Facebook website and mobile app. "Blue is the richest color for me", Mark Zuckerberg told the magazine. "I can see all of blue" he add in the interview.
  • In 2006, a guy names Chris Putnam hacked into facebook and made thousands of profiles look like MySpace profile. So, facebook hired him.
  • In 2011, Iceland took the help of facebook in rewriting its constitutions. Two thirds of Iceland's population is on Facebook, so the constitutional council used Facebook to rewrite its constitution where citizens could use the social network to make their own suggestions, engage in online debates, or follow the proceedings in real time.
  • Steve Chen worked at Facebook for a few weeks before quitting to do his own start-up. It was called "YouTube"
  • Mark Zuckerberg didn't want to add photo sharing to Facebook, but Sean Parker him to. Facebook is now the most popular photo-sharing site.
  • Major reasons for divorce: New research suggests that Facebook could be detrimental to your relationship status. A study conducted by the Journal of Cybersychology, Behavior and Social Networking, found that people who use Facebook excessively are more likely to "experience Facebook related conflict with their romantic partners".
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