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Facebook Facts

“Are you in the stone age? 

WHAT?  You are not on FACEBOOK!!”

“GET SOME LIFE!!! 

DO YOU REALLY HAVE A LIFE WITHOUT FACEBOOK!!!”

     Ok guys that is what we hear when you see that some person is not using facebook, as facebook is among those things which have a real impact on your life now days. After Google or YouTube this website of social networking has earned popularity a lot!

     We have started living our life with and for facebook only; it has become oxygen for millions of people.

     Introduction: Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends".

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum,Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over.

     In May 2005, Accel partners invested $12.7 million in Facebook, and Jim Breyer added $1 million of his own money to the pot.

     According to a May 2011 Consumer Reports survey, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts and 5 million under 10, violating the site's terms of service.

     And you and I are quite aware of that! So here we have these interesting top ten facts about facebook that are really interesting.

10.
     Can you imagine a country that bans facbook? Certainly not guys, as in why would a country ban facebook. Country Syria has banned facebook as it is against the promotion of their religion and war campaign.
9.
     Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg is the world’s youngest billionaire having worth of 12.5 billion dollars almost.
8.
     Psychologists have introduced a disease called FAD (Facebook Addiction Disorder) and I guess everybody is suffering from that.
7.
     Facebook doesn’t accept strange sounding names like Leboe’ or Allien, they can have their facebook accounts deleted without any explanation.

6.
     This one is interesting, let us say facebook doesn’t like Breastfeeding mothers, because if any mother uploads a picture of breastfeeding their babies, the account is deleted for sure!
5.
     It is said that facebook users are 85% college students and around 70% of them log in everyday.
4.
     More than 30 million users update their status at least once a day.
3.
     Among 13 people one has always a facebook account and more than 500 million people use facebook till today. And each user has almost 130 friends at an average.
2.
     Around 333,333,333 photos are uploaded daily on facebook to share them with your family and friends.
1.
    Now this one is really interesting! 

More than 60% men and women have used facebook to stalk their ex! 

Because you cannot be caught that you are following and you will not be suffering any humiliation.

Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?" Critics, such as Facebook Detox, state that Facebook has turned into a national obsession in the United States, resulting in vast amounts of time lost and encouraging narcissism.

Posted by Zaffar Iqbal Durrani