12 interesting facts about Facebook
- More than 60 % of men and women have used Facebook to stalk their ex.
- Over 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States with all those people spending a whopping 5703 years (3 billion minutes) on the site each day.
- In Dec 2004 there were 1 million active users in Facebook which grew to 5.5 million in 2005, 12 million in 2006, 50 million in 2007, 100 million in 2008 & has increased to 250 million as of July 2009!
- More than 30 million users update their status at least once each day.
- The company already rejected a $975 million offer for the site.
- Facebook apparently removes photos uploaded by mothers breastfeeding their babies; some accounts have even been deleted for this.
- Facebook is valued at 8 billion according to Peter Thiel.
- People with strange sounding names (e.g. Leboe’ or ‘Allien’) can have their FACEBOOK accounts deleted without any further explanation.
- It currently hosts over 1.7 Billion photos.
- Mark Zuckerberg, founder and owner of Facebook is the world’s youngest billionaire worth $1.5 billion & counting.
- Facebook is the 5th most valuable US Internet company, yet with only $150 million in annual revenue.
- Turns out Facebook wasn’t always called Facebook. It originally launched as TheFacebook on thefacebook.com with Zuckerberg claiming he was “Founder, Master and Commander, Enemy of the State”. It didn’t become Facebook.com until 2005 when the fledgling site bought the domain for $200,000 from aboutface.com a web and intranet directory software company.
