Perhaps you’re one of 400 million Facebook users who logs once every month or perhaps you log in every day and has what psychologists call FAD (Facebook Addiction Disorder). No matter how addicted you are to Facebook, you may not know some of the following interesting facts about Facebook.
1. Launch of Facebook
Facebook was launched on February 4th, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his fellow Harvard classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin from their Harvard dorm room. It started out as a social networking site to connect those who are Harvard students as well as graduates. It eventually
2. Facebook Scandal
Facebook became the center of public attention when it was sued for copyright infringement. Former Harvard classmates twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra claimed that Mark Zuckerberg who was supposed to work with them in creating the base software for their social networking site ConnectU has stolen their business idea and technology and used them to start his own competitive site Facebook. The suit was settled in June 2008. The founders of ConnectU were reported to have received $65 million in stocks and cash.
3. Yahoo's attempt to buy Facebook
Facebook has become quite a powerhouse networking site that in 2006 Yahoo whose failed social service Yahoo 360, had tried to purchase it for $1 billion. However, Zuckerberg declined the offer claiming that Facebook is worth $4 billion which couldn’t be far from the truth as Facebook is now estimated to be valued at over $100 billion as of this writing.
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Facebook traffic stats
The traffic to Facebook is growing every day being only second to Google. YouTube comes in third while other networking sites like Twitter comes in at eleventh place and mySpace in twenty-fifth position.
5. Important statistics about Facebook :
• Four hundred million users log in at least once every month; half of which log in every day.
• Seventy percent of Facebook users come from outside the United States.
• Half of Denmark population are active users of Facebook.
• 8.3 billion hours are spent monthly on Facebook.
• The two most popular Facebook Pages are that of Michael Jackson and Homer Simpson.
6. Facebook investors
At the startup of Facebook, Zuckerberg got financial backing in the amount of half a million dollars from Peter Thiel who is the co-founder of Paypal. In May 2005, Accel Partners contributed $12.7 million to Facebook startup capital. Later, other companies like Microsoft, Greylock Partners and Digital Sky Technologies also invested in Facebook in return for a share in Facebook.
7. How Facebook makes money
Facebook offers free membership to its users. Facebook revenue comes mainly from advertising where advertisers are able to target specific audience based on Facebook users’ profile.
Facebook is becoming more and more popular and is now the current number one social networking site on the Internet. You may likely be one of Facebook users and may find these facts about Facebook totally unknown to you. So hopefully with this article, you know more about Facebook.
