Are
You a Citizen of FACEBOOK Country ? Then it is for you
Yes, FACEBOOK becomes the third largest populated country
which has more than 1 billion users on the first place it is CHINA and on the
Second it is India.
Google was only
worth a quarter of Facebook's valuation when it first went public.
Over
25% of users have already been dumped via Facebook
A June 2010 survey of 1,000 Facebook
users -- 70% of whom were male -- found that 25% had been "dumped"
via Facebook (via their significant other updating his or her relationship
status).
Twenty-one percent
of those surveyed said they would end a relationship by changing their Facebook
relationship statuses to "single." While worrisome, the survey does
show the majority of people do not split up via Facebook.
Facebook, the
popular social networking website, provoked a squall of maternal wrath when it
yanked photos of breastfeeding babies that women had posted on their personal
profiles because it deemed them a little too revealing. This, by the way, from
a website that allows photos of women in thongs and bikinis and of couples
making out; it has even accepted paid advertising for a dating website that
featured a topless model. (The topless ad was taken down after angry women noted
the hypocrisy.)
In response to the terse notices alerting
mothers that they were violating Facebook's decency policy,
"lactivists" responded with a virtual nurse-in; 11,000 women posted
photos of themselves breastfeeding and/or updated their profiles to read:
"Hey, Facebook. Breastfeeding Is Not Obscene!"
The pro-breastfeeding group has attracted over
250,000 members.
Facebook causes 1 in 5 Divorces
It used to be the
tell-tale lipstick on the collar. Then there were the give-away texts that
spelled the death knell for many marriages. But now one in five divorces
involve the social networking site Facebook, according to a new survey by the
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
A staggering 80 per cent of divorce lawyers have
also reported a spike in the number of cases that use social media for evidence
of cheating.
Al Pacino was the first ‘face'
on Facebook
Remember that
sad-looking blue guy on Facebook's homepage who used to stare you down every
time you went to log in? They did away with him in 2007, so if you were late to
the social networking party, then you probably have absolutely no idea what
we're talking about. Anyway according to David Kirkpatrick's The Facebook
Effect , it turns out that that guy in the logo, created by Zuckerberg's friend
and classmate Andrew McCollum, was none other than a young Al Pacino “covered with
a fog of ones and zeros — the elementary components of digital media.” Crazy,
right?
36% of users check Facebook,
Twitter or texts after sex
Lighting a
cigarette after sex? That's soooo last season.
An October 2009 study by Retrevo suggested that
social networks are becoming an increasingly important part of young people's
lives. Among under-35s, 36% admitted to "tweeting, texting and checking
Facebook after sex." Forty percent of respondents admitted to doing so
while driving, 64% said they do so at work, and 65% use these communication
channels while on vacation.
Over 350million people suffer from
Facebook Addiction Disorder
Facebook Addiction
Disorder (FAD) is a term introduced by US phychologists for those who are
addicted to Facebook and their life is really affected by their uncontrolled
activities on Facebook. The most common effects are the loss of productivity,
the inability to concentrate, the superficiality of friendships as well as
isolation in the extreme cases.
It has been said that approximately
350 million people are suffering from the disorder.
Facebook
users have lower grades than non-users
According to a new
study by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her
co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University, college students who
use the 800 million–member social network have significantly lower grade-point
averages (GPAs) than those who do not.
The study, made in 2009, surveyed 219
undergraduate and graduate students and found that GPAs of Facebook users
typically ranged a full grade point lower than those of nonusers — 3.0 to 3.5
for users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers. It also found that
79% of Facebook members did not believe there was any link between their GPA
and their networking habits.
Burger King gave away free burgers
to users who unfriended people on Facebook
In January 2009, an
advertising campaign from Burger King titled “WHOPPER Sacrifice” rewarded
Facebook users a free “Angry Whopper” for publicly deleting 10 friends, who
would then receive a blunt message informing they were deleted for a free
hamburger. The campaign, conceived by Burger King agency Crispin Porter +
Bogusky and executed by Refresh Partners, used the tag line “Friendship Is
Strong, but The Whopper Is Stronger.”
At press time the
application had been downloaded more than 55,000 times and over 250,000
‘friends' were sacrificed.
A man was
arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook
1. On perhaps one of
the worst crimes perpetrated in Facebook, a Pennsylvania father was arrested
for allegedly asking his teen daughter for sex over Facebook. John Forehand,
39, referred to himself as "Bad Daddy" in the online correspondence
with his 13 year-old daughter, in which he openly propositioned her and made
explicit sexual suggestions. Forehand told his daughter he had been having
"inappropriate" dreams about her, and wrote to her, "I'll take
very good care of my little girl."
The girl told her mother about the inappropriate
Facebook messages, and she then alerted the police. The police captured
Forehand by tricking him into coming to what he believed would be a meeting
with his daughter.
Facebook engineers originally wanted
to call the "Like" button the "Awesome" button.
Facebook pays its engineers better than most
companies in the Valley
Facebook has more than 960m active users. If the company were a country, it would be the third largest in the world after China (population: 1.34bn) and India (population: 1.17bn)
• With 157m members, the US has the most Facebook users, followed by India with 45.9m, Brazil with 45.3m, Indonesia with 42.4m and Mexico with 32.9m (source: socialbakers.com)
• Facebook is the most popular social network in every country of the world, with the exceptions of China, Japan, Poland, Russia, South Korea and Vietnam (source: comScore)
• In April, Facebook announced a billion-dollar deal to buy the startup behind wildly popular smartphone photo sharing application Instagram, its biggest acquisition to date
• Facebook has minted four billionaires: Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker. The 27-year-old Zuckerberg's net worth was estimated at $17.5bn on the 2011 Forbes list of the wealthiest Americans. Moskovitz had a net worth of $3.5bn but pipped Zuckerberg for the title of world's youngest billionaire, being eight days younger. The Brazilian-born Saverin, who left Facebook early on after a falling-out with Zuckerberg, had a net worth of $2bn. Parker, the Napster co-founder who briefly served as Facebook's president, had a net worth of $2.1bn
Regards,
Pankaj Goyal (Pankaj.goyal.21@facebook.com)
pankajgoyal46@gmail.com
