1. In 2003, Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, where he placed photos of undergraduates side by side so viewers could rank which one was ‘hotter’. Zuckerberg would later turn Facemash into the now ubiquitous Facebook.
2. If Facebook were a country, it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, after China, India, the U.S. and Indonesia.
3. People upload more than 2.5 billion pictures to Facebook each month.
4. The average Facebook user:
• has 130 friends
• sends eight friend requests per month
• spends more than 55 minutes a day on the site
• uses the ‘Like’ button nine times a month
• writes 25 comments each month.
5. Among children under 18, Facebook was ranked third in the top 100 searches of 2009, behind YouTube and Google. Sex and porn rounded out the top five.
6. The New Oxford Dictionary announced that the 2009 Word of the Year was ‘unfriend’ but there is some debate about whether the word should be ‘defriend’ – I personally prefer ‘defriend’ and I also think there should be a word to describe the way children friend their parents on a tame and censored version of their Facebook page while banning them from seeing what’s really happening on their ‘real’ Facebook page (and think their parents haven’t wised up to what’s going on). ‘Subterfuge’ might be a good start.
7. Around 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States.
8. In Australia, you can legally serve court notices to defendants on Facebook. A summons posted on Facebook is legally binding.
If you're bored, check out lamebook.com – a regularly updated site that reposts lame and funny Facebook user posts.
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