During a super bowl match interval, a Harvard school kid introduced one of his friends to Facebook. It was an exponential rise from there on and the social networking site has added 50 million users in the first year. Today, Facebook (FB) is the most favorite social media app downloaded on Smartphones. It accounts for 66 percent of all social media sharing on iPhones, as reported by Albert Costill of Search Engine Journal.
Facebook has been in the news for wrong reasons like $200 million that spammers gain from it annually. However, we bring you stuff like the gender break-up of Facebook users, the most common life event showcased and the person behind ‘Like’ button.
Here is a list of 25 interesting facts about Facebook:
1. Facebook had a major homepage remodeling in 2007, which replaced a person’s partly obscured face behind a cloud of binary code. The mystery man was none other than the legendary actor Al Pacino. This fact came to light when David Kirkpatrick, who in his book ‘The Facebook Effect,’ revealed that the effect was created by a friend and classmate of Mark Zuckerberg.
2. The Zuckerberg family spent $85,000 in FB’s first summer to keep the company running. Mark Zuckerberg is worth around $19 billion now.
3. When Facebook made its stock market debut via NASDAQ on 18 May 2012, the shares of the enterprise was priced at $38. That means the valuation of the corporation was over $100 billion. Facebook was worth more than eBay, Yahoo, Netflix, IAC, AOL, Zynga, Groupon, LinkedIn, and Pandora combined.
4. The first corporate partnership of FB was launched in May 2006 with Apple, Microsoft, Intel, EA and Amazon. Before that, it had partnered with Accenture, Gap, Intuit, Pepsi, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. As a part of corporate social responsibility, it took up ‘Teach for America’ project.
5. Co-founder of Napster, Sean Parker transformed Facebook from a college project to an actual company. As brought out in the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’, Parker changed the social networking site’s name from Thefacebook.com to Facebook.com buying the domain for $200,000. Further, it was Parker who suggested the popular feature - photo sharing.
6. 42 percent of users on FB are male but thankfully the site is more gender neutral than Google + and Pinterest.
7. The percentage of 15-34 years old on Facebook was 66 percent last year. And, don’t be surprise knowing that 45 percent of internet users in the U.S. are sexagenarians and they are active Facebook members too. Interestingly, 70 percent of users are friends with their parents on FB.
8. 48 percent of people aged between 18 and 34 check their Facebook account first thing in the morning. 28 percent of that cross-section supposedly checks it even before getting up from bed.
9. Facebook users are presented with approximately 1500 potential content every day.
10. About 7.5 million sites contain the FB ‘Like’ or ‘Share’ buttons.
11. In the U.S., California is the most social state with 15,267,160 users. That accounts for 41 percent of the state’s population. Texas ranks second with 9 million users and New York comes third with its 8 million users.
12. In the U.S., the top five most loved brands on Facebook are—Walmart, Target, Amazon, Samsung Mobile USA and Subway.
13. In-spite of being blocked in China, there are around 95 million Facebook users in the communist nation.
14. About 86 percent of daily active users are outside the U.S. and Canada. 29 percent log in from Asian countries like countries like India which accounts for 71 million members.
15. Facebook is available in 70 different languages, thanks to ‘translate’ option.
16. Last year in the United States, the most talked about topic on Facebook was ‘Super Bowl’. However, the most talked about topic globally on the largest social networking site is ‘Pope Francis’.
17. An average person spends between 18 to 20 minutes on Facebook. If you sum up the time consumed by every user, it would roughly be a whopping 20 billion minutes.
18. Initially the engineers who designed FB wanted to name the “Like” button the “Awesome” button.
19. In every 20 minutes on Facebook, more than 1 million links are shared; 2 million ‘friend request’ are made and close to 3 million messages are exchanged.
20. Most common life event showcased last year was regarding the marital status. It would read something like ‘Relationship’, ‘Got Engaged’ or ‘Got Married’. These were followed by entries like ‘Traveled’, ‘Ended a Relationship’, ‘Moved’ and ‘First Met a Friend’ as the events that transpired in the user’s life.
21. There was an increase in Facebook users by 22 percent last year.
22. Since its inception, Facebook has aided 150 billion friend connections, witnessed 1.13 trillion likes and provided a platform to upload 250 billion photos.
23. On any given day, roughly 350 million photos are uploaded, 4.5 billion likes are registered and 10 billion messages are exchanged. Almost Like or Share buttons are viewed 22 billion times.
24. The total monthly users of FB stand at over 1.3 billion with 680 million of them on mobile devices.
25. Most ‘checked-in’ locations in the U.S. during 2013 via FB, excluding transportation terminals, were--Disneyland & Disney California Adventure, Times Square, Walt Disney World, Dodger Stadium, AT&T Park are among others.
source:siliconindia.com
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