30 Fascinating Facebook Facts To Tell Your Friends

Its all the rage young, old and in biz. 1/6th of the world has an account and there is already a movie about it. Facebook is changing the world around us. Stalkers, Uprisings, 'LIKE' and bazillions of hours of wasted productivity for employers. Here are a few early facts to tell around the cocktail hour or water cooler! 

One early Facebook function was a file sharing service

The first “Work Networks” as well as the original educational networks  included Apple and Microsoft

The meaning of the term poke has never been defined

The average Facebook user has 130 friends

There is an ‘App’ to see what’s on the Facebook cafe menu

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”)

California is huge on Facebook with over 15 million users (41% of the population)

Australian’s spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average

A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4,000 on eBay

Facebook has over 500 million users

Facebook has added over 400 million users in less than 2 years

If  Facebook were a country it would be the 3rd largest

Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel the co-founder of PayPal for $500,000

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)

50% of users are on the site every day

70% of users live outside the USA

Facebook is available in 70 different languages

It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google

Yahoo offered Facebook $1 billion which Mark Zuckerburg refused

Facebook is now valued between $7.9 – $11 billion

Most Popular Facebook page is Michael Jackson (Simpsons is second)

Monthly time spent on Facebook is 8.3 billion hours

Total number of  of active applications: 550,000 plus and growing daily

Women aged 55 and up are the fastest growing Facebook demographic in the USA

Facebook makes money through advertising  and virtual products

This year Facebook is  on track to generate sales of over $1 billion

In Australia court notices can be served through Facebook

A Facebook court summons in Australia is considered legally binding

Facebook has become so popular psychologists identified a new mental health disorder “Facebook Addiction Disorder”

Sources- www.jeffbulas.com / www.Mashable.com
Kevin Brown - www.kbsinsight.blogspot.com