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Facebook was originally called face mash, later changed to thefacebook and then finally in 2005 it was changed to simply Facebook.
and just a little pro tip you can access Facebook by simply writing fb and then hitting ctrl and enter on your keyboard
try it out!
Facebook now has over 1 billion active users and about half of them log in to their account every single day, that means that globally 1 in 7 people se Facebook
in the United States about 95 percent of the population has a Facebook account
it might sound strange, but Facebook actually pays YOU money if you're able to hack in to the website
why you might ask, well because if you're able to hack your way in thus revealing a new security bug you have actually saved Facebook the trouble of locating the bug themselves
the money they pay out ranges between 500 and 10 thousand dollars depending on the severity of the bug
so if you think you're skilled enough, start hacking
in early 2012 a couple was murdered because they had unfriended a person on Facebook
the couple had recently unfriended a women they knew, the woman's father apparently got upset by this and went over to their house along with the woman's cousin and shot both victims in the head
but it gets worse, the female victim was holding the couples 8 months old baby in her arms as she was murdered
they then left the house leaving the baby alive
talk about faith in humanity destroyed
and on a similar note, about 30 million Facebook accounts right now belong to dead people
in Egypt a father named his new born daughter Facebook
allegedly he did this this to honour the social media websites role in Egypt's revolution
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!
In Israel a couple named their child like, after Facebook's like button
the couple explained that they were looking for a unique name and that they liked the sound of the word like
in the early days of Facebook a lot of things were different, when Facebook first launched the homepage featured a picture of Al Pacino's face, no one really knows why
and in the begging it was a website only for colleges and university's
Facebook also had a file sharing function, similar to mega upload and others a like called wirehog
according to an early employee Facebook was quite reckless with member's privacy in the beginning,
they apparently had access to all member's passwords, including a master password that would let anyone who had it access any account they wanted
the most liked page is one of the company's own, titled Facebook for every phone with over 280 million likes
second place is Facebook's own page at 90 million and third place goes to YouTube's official page with over 70 million likes
the first ever registered user is the creator himself: Mark Zuckerberg
there is a legitimate disorder caused by obsessive use of Facebook, the disorder is simply called: Facebook Addiction Disorder or FAD for short
symptoms associated with the disorder can for example be having lots of fake friends, not answering the phone because they want to use Facebook to communicate
withdrawing from social activities with family and friends to just spend time on Facebook and having at least one or two Facebook windows open at any given time
some believe that as much as 3 hundred and 50 million people could be suffering form this disorder
about a third of all divorce filings in the U.S contains the word Facebook and a study was done which showed that about twenty five percent of Facebook users have been dumped on the site
and about 20 percent said they would or had dumped someone by simply changing their relation status
another study showed that the most common recent people use Facebook is to stalk their ex girlfriends and or boyfriend, it's quite shocking and also sad that these days you can end a relationship with just the click of a button
and now
SOME STATS
THERE ARE ABOUT 10 MILLION APPS ON FACEBOOK, 50 MILLION PAGES, 700 MILLION ACTIVE USERS EVERY SINGLE DAY
150 BILLION FRIEND CONNECTIONS SINCE LAUNCH AND OVER 1 TRILLION LIKES, THE AVERAGE USER HAVE AROUND 140 FRIENDS, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PHOTOS IS 240 BILLION
AND ABOUT 20 PERCENT OF PICTURES TAKEN THIS YEAR WILL END UP ON FACEBOOK, THE AVERAGE USER SPEND ABOUT 1 HOUR A DAYY ON THE WEBSITE
AROUND 85 MILLION FAKE ACCOUNTS EXIST THERE ARE 70 LANGUAGES AVAILABLE, FACEBOOK GET OVER 5 THOUSAND EMPOLYEES, 250 MILLION FACEBOOK GAMES ARE PLAYED EACH MONTH
5 NEW PROFILES ARE CREATED EVERY FUCKING SECOND!
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