Facebook Facts

                              
Facebook Facts

1. Facebook.com was launched in 2004.
2. The meaning of the term poke has never been defined.
3. There is an ‘App’ to see what’s on the Facebook cafe menu.
4. Mark Zuckerburg calls himself a “Harvard Graduate” when in fact he didn't graduate.
5. Australians spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country.
6. A Facebook employee hoodie was sold for $4,000 on eBay.
7. It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google.
8. Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion.
9. Facebook engineers originally wanted to call the "Like" button the "Awesome" button.
10. Facebook used to be called "Thefacebook". Former president Sean Parker helped it buy the domain Facebook.com for $200,000.
11. Sean Parker also convinced Mark Zuckerberg to add photo sharing, now the site's most popular feature, to Facebook.
12. Facebook pays its engineers better than most companies in the silicon Valley.
13. Facebook causes 1 in 5 Divorces.
14. The Average Facebook User Has 130 Friends.
15. Over 25% of users have already been dumped via Facebook.
16. Over 350million people suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder.
17. Facebook users have lower grades than non-users.
18. Syria is the country that bans Facebook.
19. There is evidence that Mark Zuckerberg stole many of the ideas from ConnectU. They sued Facebook and settled for an undisclosed amount.
20. Yahoo! tried to buy Facebook in 2006.