INDI ZOOM: FACEBOOK FACTS

With more than 750 million active users in March 2011, Facebook, launched in February 2004, has become the most popular social networking website on globe. After a rather long-time existing, Facebook has upgraded lots of useful applications. Via Facebook, users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to identify friends about themselves. In addition, users can participate in networks organized by workplace, school, or college. Despite the reputation and worldwide development of Facebook, there is something secret about Facebook's owner, Mark Zuckerberg.

Mark Zuckerberg, fully named Mark Elliot "Zuck" Zuckerberg was born May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York. The 26-year-old man is an American businessman, CEO & President of the social networking site Facebook. While attending Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg and his classmates including Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes co-founded Facebook. And he is famous for his giant investment to the share of Facebook, up to 24%. However, behind Facebook, there are the following interesting and little-known facts about Mark Zuckerberg- the co-founder, CEO & President of the social networking site Facebook.

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60 Interesting Facebook Facts and Figures

1 in every 9 people on Earth is on Facebook
35+ demographic represents more than 30% of the entire user base
71.2 % of all USA internet users are on Facebook
In 20 minutes 1,000,000 links are shared on Facebook
In 20 minutes 1,484,000 event invites are posted
In 20 minutes 1,323,000 photos are tagged
In 20 minutes 1,851,000 status updates are entered
In 20 minutes 1.972 million friend requests are accepted
In 20 minutes 2,716,000 photos are uploaded
In 20 minutes 2,716,000 messages are sent
In 20 minutes 10.2 million comments are posted
In 20 minutes 1,587,000 wall posts are written
750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend
48% of young Americans said they found out about news through Facebook
48% of 18 to 34 year olds check Facebook right when they wake up
The 18-24(College) demographic grew the fastest at 74% in one year.
50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
Average user has 130 friends
Average user leaves 25 comments a month
People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
More than 70 translations available on the site including Pirate English.
About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform
People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day
Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10,000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day
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
There are more than 250 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices
People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage
One early Facebook function was a file sharing service
The first “Work Networks” as well as the original educational networks included Apple and Microsoft
The meaning of the term poke has never been defined
There is an ‘App’ to see what’s on the Facebook cafe menu
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”)
Australian’s spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average
A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4,000 on eBay
Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel the co-founder of PayPal for $500,000
It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google (at the moment)
Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion
Facebook makes money through advertising and virtual products
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)
The USA has the largest Facebook user base with 155 million people which represents 23.6% of Facebook’s total users
There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages
Texas Hold’em Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 41 million fans
More than 750 million active users
Facebook has become so popular psychologists identified a new mental health disorder “Facebook Addiction Disorder”
Linking "Drugs" is up 1131.9% this year.
In Australia court notices can be served through Facebook
A Facebook court summons in Australia is considered legally binding
Yahoo offered Mark Zuckerburg $1 billion for Facebook which he refused
If Facebook were a country it would be the 3rd largest
Facebook has added over 400 million users in less than 2 years.
57% of people talk to people more online than they do in real life.