Facebook Facts
- 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 billion people, were active on Facebook by the end of 2013. Also, some 945 million users access the site through their mobile phones.
- Adding the number 4 to the end of Facebook’s URL will automatically direct you to Mark Zuckerberg’s wall. 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.
- The average Facebook users spend more than 55 minutes a day on the site. They use the Like button nine times a month and write 25 comments each month.
- Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook.
- There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook.
- More than 3 billion photos are uploaded to the site each month
- More than 15,000 websites, devices and applications have integrated Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008
- Disney comes in second place with more than 46million likes. Coca-Cola is the most "liked" company on Facebook with more than 79million fans giving it the thumbs up.
- More than 2.5 billion pictures are uploaded to Facebook each month
- A recent survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social networking sites such as Facebook to evaluate applicants. Thirty-eight percent of admissions officers said that what they saw negatively affected the applicant.
- The New Oxford Dictionary announced that the 2009 Word of the Year was “unfriend,” as in “to remove someone as a friend on a social networking site” such as Facebook. However, there is some debate whether the word should be “defriend” rather than “unfriend.
