Thursday 21 August 2014

Interesting Facebook Facts: The Good, The bad and the Ugly (weird!)

Whether good, bad or ugly ( or weird), here's some facebook facts that we found interesting:


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1. Facebook has more monthly users (1.32 billion) than India—the world's second-most populous country—has people (1.24 billion). As of 2012, China had 1.35 billion people.


2. There are more than one trillion posts on Facebook (1,000,000,000,000!!!).


3. At 1.35 billion, Facebook has more monthly active users than WhatsApp (500 million), Twitter (255 million) and Instagram (200 million)—combined. The social giant spent $20 billion over the last two years on WhatsApp and Instagram.

Yes, a billion more active users than Twitter!

4. More than 1 billion people use Facebook on a mobile device on a monthly basis. That's about 1/7 of the people on planet Earth.
(Above all found here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101611586#.)

5.You can change your language to 'pirate' me hearties!! http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Facebook-Speak-Pirate

6. Al Pacino was the first "face" on Facebook. http://www.oddee.com/item_97980.aspx

7. Smartphone users check Facebook 14 times a day. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2300466/Smartphone-users-check-Facebook-14-times-day-admit-looking-movies.html

8. 64% of Facebook users visit the site on a daily basis. According to a 2014 Pew study

9. Half of all adult Facebook users have more than 200 friends in their network.
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Facebook users differ greatly when it comes to the number of friends in their networks:
  • 39% of adult Facebook users have between 1 and 100 Facebook friends
  • 23% have 101-250 friends
  • 20% have 251-500 friends
  • 15% have more than 500 friends
Among adult Facebook users, the average (mean) number of friends is 338, and the median (midpoint) number of friends is 200. In other words, half of all Facebook users have more than 200 friends, and half have less than 200.

Younger users tend to have significantly larger friend networks than older users: 27% of 18-29 year old Facebook users have more than 500 friends in their network, while 72% of users age 65+ have 100 friends or fewer.


10. Facebook is named as a factor in one of three divorces. Only in Ameri....Oh this is a UK Survey!!

The social network was implicated in a third of all divorce filings last year, according to Divorce-Online, a survey by a British legal service. The reason? Social networking is making it way easier to track down former flames and communicate with potential new flings. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/surprising-things-you-didnt-know-about-facebook

11. People have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook.
In 2012, a Tennessee man fatally shot a couple who had unfriended his 30-year-old daughter on the social network.
  http://gizmodo.com/5883546/two-people-are-dead-because-they-unfriended-this-mans-adult-daughter-on-facebook

12. Adding /4 to the end of Facebook’s URL will automatically direct you to Mark Zuckerberg’s wall.
There’s more! Adding 5 or 6 to the end of the URL will take you to the respective profiles of Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz, who are Facebook co-founders and Mark’s former college roommates. Adding 7 to the web address takes you to the profile of Arie Hasit, another good friend of Zuckerberg from his days at Harvard.

13. Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green colorblindness.
Zuck told New Yorker reporter Jose Antonio Vargas in 2010 that “blue is the richest color for me — I can see all of blue.”

14. You Can't Block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook. http://mashable.com/2010/08/23/block-mark-zuckerberg/

15. 83% of prostitutes have Facebook pages.

16. Someday there will be more dead people on Facebook than living ones. 

It’ll probably happen in either the 2060s or the 2130s. http://gizmodo.com/will-there-ever-be-more-dead-people-than-living-ones-on-1455816826

Wow some shocker in there!! And in conclusion to these mighty impressive stats we have learnt that facebook is massive, if you business is not on facebook your missing out. (So get it on FB and get a mobile version of your website!!).

Younger people have more friends, which I kind of thought anyway!

Be careful who you befriend, because unfriending them may be very hazardous to your health!!!


Thanks for reading.

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