Facebook amazing facts

Facebook facts that you might not know

Facebook is the most popular social networking site till date.  Now the it has grown to not only fun place to share photos and status. It has been one of the very important element for a business or any other thing to promote. Now lets look some of the amazing facts about Facebook. I hope you will enjoy it !!! 

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• One Early Facebook Function Was a File Sharing Service called“Wirehog” developed alongside Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg and three others. It launched in 2004 and is reported to have been planned as an integral FB feature. In 2005 Facebook was actively promoting the service and Zuckerberg told The Harvard Crimson “I think Wirehog will probably spread in the same way that thefacebook did.”

•  However, likely due to piracy concerns, Wirehog was axed in 2006 before it got really big, although its photo-sharing functionality lives on in spirit.
• Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a “Harvard Graduate” which is not true as he dropped out study to concentrate on getting Facebook up and running.
• Facebook has more than 900m active users. If the company were a country, it would be the third largest in the world after China (population: 1.34bn) and India (population: 1.17bn)
• Facebook is the most popular social network in every country of the world, with the exceptions of China, Japan, Poland, Russia, South Korea and Vietnam (source: comScore)
• Facebook has gained over 1.13 trillion likes since launch till February 2009
• 62.6 million songs that have been played 22 billion times. The most staggering fact about this: their music-listening app only started in September 2011 and this data is from September 11, 2012.
• Facebook says that the median age of the user is about 22 years.
• The Social Network, the 2010 film about the origins of Facebook, won four Golden Globes – including for best picture and best director – but flopped at the Oscars, walking away with only awards for best adapted screenplay, original score and film editing .
• Facebook, which currently employs some 3,500 people, has announced plans to hire “thousands” more over the next year.
• The average Facebook users has 130 friends.