10 SHOCKING FACTS ABOUT FACEBOOK
1.”FACEBOOK” was cited as a reason
for a third of all divorce in 2011:-
The
personal information on Facebook is becoming an important factor in marriage
misunderstandings. Facebook was named as a major cause of divorce-online in
2011. Conflicts were caused by false assumptions, jealousy, embarrassment,
stalker-like behavior.
2.”FACEBOOK” was used in Iceland to
rewrite its constitution:-
After
Iceland broke from Denmark in 1944, it did only mere changes to its
constitution. But by 2008 the Icelandic people wanted to change their
constitution after they had financial troubles of losing their currency value
and banks. A team of 25 people wrote the new constitution and put them on ‘FACEBOOK’
for users to make suggestions about the new amendments. Other social medias too
were used and the new constitution was formed.
3. +4 to our ”FACEBOOK” URL will
automatically direct us to Mark Zuckerberg’s wall:-
Try it.
It is sure to take you to his wall. If it is a bit complicated to remember try
– www.facebook.com/4.
It is an easy way
to go to the original Facebook wall that is purely owned by its creator. Adding
5 or 6 or 7 to the end of the URL, will take you to the other co-founders of
Facebook - Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz and Arie Hasit respectively.
4. Hack into Facebook to get $500:
If you
find an original bug within the Facebook software and system, they will reward
you with up to $500. Only one bounty per security bug is given. This is done as
a gesture of appreciation for their security researchers.
5. FACEBOOK language can be changed to
“Pirate.”:-
This
makes the word “CAP’N” appear before everyone’s name, friends will be called as
“Mateys”, pictures are called portraits, commenting becomes “Scrawling a mark”
and instead of “LIKE” you will just say “ARR!”
This
stupid crime occurred in Tennessee. Billy Clay and Billie Jean decided to
de-friend Jenelle Potter on Facebook. In response, Jenelle’s father killed them
both sparing their 8 month daughter from this madness. But this is not the
first crime connected with facebook. A woman set a friend's garage on fire last
year because of a similar thing. A man also was accused of hitting his wife for
not"Liking" a post about the death of the man's mother.
7. 20% of all photos taken end-up in
FACEBOOK:-
With
today’s advancement in Photography, human communication through photos has
increased drastically. The intended messages are shared using photos. Facebook’s
library already contains 140 billion photos, which is about 100 000 times that
of the Library of Congress and 4% of the photos ever taken. It has become more
an addiction than alcohol and tobacco according to a study.
8. The users average separation is
only 3.74 people in FACEBOOK:-
Facebook
data scientist Lars Backstrom after scanning through 721 million users and
excluding celebrity/miscellaneous fan pages, discovered that 99.6% of all
random user pairs were connected by 5 people while 92% were connected by 4
people, concluding that the users are separated by only 3.74 people.
9. A man was made to apologize on
FACEBOOK or Go to Jail:-
in June
2011, a photographer from Cincinnati, Mark Byron was found guilty of civil
domestic violence against his wife and she given a temporary protection order. Later
in November, Byron posted on his Facebook page -"If you are an evil, vindictive
woman who wants to ruin your husband's life and take your son's father away
from him completely -- all you need to do is say you're scared of your husband
or domestic partner and they'll take him away!" this went against his
wives safety order and he had to go to jail for 60 days and pay a fine of $500
or pay back child support and post an apology to his Facebook page for 30 days.
10. FACEBOOK Users Change Their
Profile Pictures very repeatedly:
An
average user changes his/her profile photo upto 18 times a year. Women are more
regular changers than men about once every 2 weeks or once in every 3 weeks.
