The social networking website prevailed in 2003 when another site ‘orkut’ was trending. Within a few months, it was ruling the internet. Mark Zuckerberg along with his mates developed the website while he was studying at Harvard University and today, millions of users are connected through this platform online. From chatting to video chatting, Facebook did develop a lot within a time period of 10 years and remains the favourite website for social networkers.
☻ ’The Social Network’, the 2010 film about the origins of Facebook, won four Golden Globes — including for best picture and best director- and three Oscars, for best adapted screenplay, original score and film editing.
☻ Facebook is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google.
☻ Facebook pays $500 to anyone who can hack into it.They allow this as showing appreciation for their security researchers.
☻ One-sixth of the world’s total population, which is nearly 1.23 biliion people, were active on Facebook by the end of 2013. Also, some 945 million users access the site through their mobile phones.
☻ Facebook had 6,337 employees as of December. According to sources, the applications on Facebook and related firms have created many more jobs and economic value.
☻ Adding the number 4 to the end of Facebook’s URL will automatically direct you to Mark Zuckerberg’s wall. This is a quick and easy way to get to the original Facebook wall that is owned by its creator. Also, adding the numbers 5 or 6 to the end of the URL will take you to the respective profiles of Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook co-founders and Mark’s former college roommates.
☻ Iceland used Facebook to rewrite its constitution. The writing of the constitution took influence from all those on social media. The finished result came from the combined efforts of those 25 council member, Facebook,Twitter, and other social media.
☻ Profit of Facebook for the full year 2013 jumped to $1.5 billion from just $53 million in 2012. Also, its revenues increased to $7.87 billion from $5.1 billion. Most of the revenue is from online advertising.
☻ Facebook billionaires include co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and its first president, Sean Parker. Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has also become a billionaire with the rise in Facebook’s stock.
☻ Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by ConnectU who claimed that Zuckerburg stole the idea and Technology for Facebook (the issue was settled out of court)
☻ Mark Zuckerburg (CEO of Facebook) calls himself a “Harvard Graduate” when in fact he didn’t graduate (apparently his reply is that “there isn’t a setting for dropout”).
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