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11 Interesting Facts on Facebook aka – 7 Things You Should Know and 4 Things To Amuse You About Facebook July 2010

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11 Interesting Facts on Facebook

aka – 7 Things You Should Know and 4 Things To Amuse You About Facebook

July 2010

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7 THINGS THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT FACEBOOK

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There Are a Lot of People on Facebook

• More than 500 million active users– India and China are the only

countries with more people than Facebook numbers in users

• 50% of active users log on to Facebook on any given day

Souce: Facebook’s Statistics Page

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Facebook Users are Engaged

• There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)

• Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events

• Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month

• More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month

Souce: Facebook’s Statistics Page

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Facebook is Global

• More than 70 translations available on the site

• About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States

• Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application

Souce: Facebook’s Statistics Page

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Facebook is Mobile

• There are more than 150 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices

• People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice more active on Facebook than non-mobile users

• There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products

Souce: Facebook’s Statistics Page

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People Spend Over 700 Billion Minutes Per Month on Facebook

• That’s BIG!– Laid end to end, 700 billion dollar bills (66 million miles worth) would stretch from Earth to

Mars and almost all the way back– 700 billion M&Ms (at 2 grams per chocolatey orb) would be enough to fill 10 one-pound bags

for every one of the 300 million Americans– 700 billion dollars could buy 2009 Lincoln Town Cars for every person in Vermont, North

Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, and Idaho

– The combined weight of every human male in the world is considerably less than 700 billion pounds, even including the players in the NFL

– 700 billion dollars could buy 87 McDonald's combo meals for every person on Earth, with change left over for antacids

– You’d have to live to live to be 20,300 years of age to reach 700 billion heartbeats

Adapted from “Grasping 700 Billion” – Tom Barlow http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2008/09/25/grasping-700-billion/

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California is Huge on Facebook

• As far as Facebook goes, California (home of Silicon Valley) is the most social state, with an amazing 15,267,160 users in the region, according to Facebakers. This amounts to a 41% penetration rate — pretty astounding that nearly half the state is connected via Facebook

• The next biggest user-base can be found in Texas with 9 million users, but it’s nowhere close to California

• New York comes in third with 8 million, and rounding off the very bottom of the list is … Delaware

Source: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/facebook-facts/

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The Average Facebook User Has 130 Friends

• How many Facebook friends do you have? To put your friend count in perspective, the average user has 130

• As far as Facebook the platform goes, over a million websites have integrated with Facebook, and more than 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month

Source: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/facebook-facts/

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4 THINGS TO AMUSE YOU ABOUT FACEBOOK

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Al Pacino’s Face Was on the Original Facebook Homepage

• Prior to a major homepage redesign back in 2007, Facebook’s front page used to feature a man’s face partly obscured behind a cloud of binary code

• Dubbed the “Facebook guy,” it was not known who the mystery man was — until recently. David Kirkpatrick has revealed in his book The Facebook Effect that the image is a manipulated photo of Al Pacino created by a friend and classmate of Mark Zuckerberg

Source: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/facebook-facts/

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The Meaning of the Term Poke Has Never Been Defined

• While Facebook explains how “poking” works on its help center, there’s no explanation to be found for the origin of the phrase

• The most common definition is a friendly “nudge,” but the more flirtatious connotations cannot be ignored

• David Kirkpatrick reveals in The Facebook Effect that Zuckerberg once responded to a question about what a poke meant on the social networking site with: “We thought it would be fun to make a feature that has no specific purpose… So mess around with it, because you’re not getting an explanation from us.”

Source: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/facebook-facts/

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A Facebook Employee Hoodie Sold for $4,000 on eBay

• If Facebook merchandise is collectible now, imagine what it will be worth in years to come. A Facebook employee standard-issue hoodie recently sold on eBay for a whopping $4,050 with nearly 50 bidders battling it out to win the auction

• The fact that Mark Zuckerberg had just been seen sporting the same garment at the D8 Conference and revealed its mysterious insignia to the world certainly helped up the bids, but considering the one that sold had not touched Zuckerberg skin, it’s an astonishing amount

Source: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/facebook-facts/

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Mark Zuckerberg Calls Himself a “Harvard Graduate”

• As you can see for yourself over at facebook.com/zuck (the personalized URL Zuckerberg nabbed for himself), Mark Zuckerberg tells a little fib on his profile page. He lists himself as a “Harvard Graduate,” which simply isn’t true, as he dropped out to concentrate on getting Facebook up and running

• When 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl confronted Zuckerberg with this little inconsistency, he said “That’s true. We don’t have a setting for dropout.”

Source: Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/07/22/facebook-facts/

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If you’d like to find out more or have some interesting facts of your own to share, contact –

Mike MyersPresident, [email protected]