30 Interesting Facebook Facts You Probably Didn't Know

Interesting Facebook Facts You Probably Didn't Know 

Facebook has become huge.Below are  collected 30 interesting facebook facts...

1. Facebook was originally bankrolled by a co-founder of Paypal for $500,000
2. There is evidence that founder Mark Zuckerberg stole many of the ideas and much of the code from ConnectU. They sued Facebook and settled for an undisclosed amount.
3. 400,000,000 people log into their profile at least once a month.
4. Half of those people log in every day.
5. 70% of Facebook users live outside of the US.
6. 44.1% of Denmark has an active Facebook profile.
7. Only Google gets more traffic.
8. Yahoo! tried to buy Facebook in 2006 for $1,000,000,000.
9. 8,300,000,000 hours are spent on Facebook monthly.
10. The fastest growing demographic in America on Facebook: Women 55+
11. Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook..
12. FAD is a mental disorder – Facebook Addiction Disorder. FAD. Ironic.
13. Court notices and summons sent through Facebook are legal and binding in Australia.
14. Facebook has over 350 million active users. More than 35 million users update their status each day, with more than 55 million status updates each day.
15. An 18-year-old Wisconsin man posed as several different girls on Facebook to blackmail underage male teens into performing sexual favors by coaxing them to send nude photos of themselves. He could be facing up to 300 years in prison.
16. If Facebook were a country, it would be the 3rd-largest country in the world, after China, India, the U.S., and Indonesia.
17. More than 2.5 billion pictures are uploaded to Facebook each month.
18. Approximately 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States.
19. More than 70 translations of Facebook are available on the site
20. The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month.
21. There are more than 200 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
22. People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
23. Over 80% of businesses today are using facebook today.
24. Facebook fan pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans.
25. Among children under 18, Facebook was ranked third in the top 100 searches of 2009, behind YouTube and Google. Sex and porn rounded out the top five searches.
26. Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook and five billion minutes on MySpace.
27. The average Facebook user spends over 55 minutes on Facebook per day.
28. There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook
29. More than 6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day.
30. Women have 55% more posts on their wall than men.
    
    
    
    

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