Here is the list of interesting facts about Facebook:
- Launched on the Feb 4 2004, FACEBOOK has become a global phenomenon with 1,310,000,000 monthly users including 680 million of them on mobile devices.
- In the year 2007 Facebook did a major redesign to its home page. They placed legendary actor Al Pacino’s partly visible face behind a cloud of binary code.
- Facebook first sold its stock to the public on May 18, 2012 with the initial share price of $38.
- The first corporate partnership for Facebook came on May 2006 with Microsoft, Intel and Apple
- It was Sean Parker who transformed Facebook from a college project into a real company. Parker changed the site’s name from TheFacebook.com by acquiring the domain Facebook.com for $200,000. Furthermore, it was Parker who insisted that the site add its most popular feature: photo sharing and clean layout.
- 1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook, 42% male users, 76% internet users are in U.S and 70% of Facebook users are from outside USA.
- 73% of users in the U.S. have incomes above $75,000 (compared to 17% on Twitter, and 13% on Pinterest).
- Every morning, 48% of 18-34 year olds Americans check their Facebook account.
- Approximately 7.5 million sites contain the Facebook Like or Share Buttons.
- California is the most social state with 15,267,160 users. Texas is second with 9 MN users and New York comes in at third with 8 million.
- The average person spends between 18 and 20 minutes viewing their Facebook account. Where Relationship/Got Engaged/Got Married are the most common events added in the timeline followed by travelled etc.
- Originally, the developers wanted to call the “Like” button the “Awesome” button.
- The five most popular brands on Facebook are: Walmart, Target, Amazon, Samsung Mobile USA and Subway.
- Facebook is blocked in china since 2009, but it is estimated around 95 million Facebook users are in China where 29% of the total Facebook users log in from Asian countries.
- 1 million links, 2 million friends requested and 3 million messages are shared in every 20 minutes.
- 150 billion friend connections, 1.13 trillion likes and 250 billion photos uploaded on daily basis
Shocking Facts
- Every day around 600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook accounts
- It is believed about 30 million dead people are on Facebook.
- A third of all divorce filings in 2011 contained the word “Facebook”
- Iceland used Facebook to rewrite its constitution!
- URL automatically directs to Mark Zuckerberg’s wall when “4″ is added to the end of Facebook url.
- Anyone who can hack into Facebook is paid with $500.
- You can change your language on Facebook to “Pirate.” All you have to do is to go into “Account” and then “Languages” and find “English (Pirate)”.
- A study by Columbia University says 83% of prostitutes are having a Facebook profile and 25% of their client are through Facebook.
