InterestingFacts about FACEBOOK

Facebook is an American for-profit corporation, online social media and social network service based in United States.

Founded on 4th February 2004Has 15,724 employees

• Mark Zuckerberg• Dustin Moskovitz• Eduardo Saverin• Andrew McCollum• Chris Hughes

Advantages

Sharing of informationChatting (text, audio & video)MobileBusiness promotionRe-connecting with old/lost friends

Disadvantages

Account intrusionScamsWaste of timeRuining the professional life

• Facebook tracks which sites you visit, even AFTER you have signed out

• Smartphone users check Facebook 14 times a day

• Facebook have been BLOCKED in CHINA since 2009. But by miracle were are 95 million Facebook users

• The “Like” button on Facebook was originally going to be called “Awesome”

• 8.7% of Facebook users are • Facebook has a feature that lets you designate who will manage your account after you die

• Facebook offers 4 months of paid parental leave to new fathers who work for the company

• The average Facebook user has 155 friends but would turn to just 4 for help, a survey found

• One gram of your DNA could store all of Facebook and Google’s data

• Facebook stores approximately 300 PETABYTES of users data on its servers

• Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green colorblindness. This is why Facebook’s primary color scheme is blue, is also strongly associated with trust and security

1.79 billion users worldwide

66% are 76% are

Every 60 seconds on Facebook

• 510,000 comments

• 293,000 statuses

• 136,000 photos

FACEBOOKs future

Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset

Live videos on Facebook

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