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25 facts about «Facebook»
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1. «Facebook» has more than 400 million active users. 35 million users update their status each day.
2. Every month on «Facebook» downloaded more than 2, 5 billion photos.
3. The average user «Facebook» has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month.
4. A recent survey of 500 major US colleges found that 10% of admissions are browsing profiles on «Facebook» to assess applicants. The members of the selection committees were told that what they have seen, basically a negative impact on their opinion.
5. It is believed that «Facebook» ranks second after «Google» on the volume of traffic. However, any time this may change in March of last year «Facebook» was visited by more people than «Google».
6. If «Facebook» was a country, it would be the third most populous country in the world after China and India.
7. 39-year-old father from Pennsylvania was arrested for something that offers users «Facebook» his 13-year-old daughter for sex. A 17-year-old Robert Butler Jr., fired the director and deputy director of the school in Omaha, Nebraska, to crime and suicide left a suicide note on his page on the social network «Facebook».
8. Although initially «Facebook» was created for college students, people over the age of 26 years currently represent 70% of the total number of users.
9. The average user «Facebook» spends about 55 minutes a day. In a month he leaves about 25 comments and 9 times pushes the button "Like».
10. Approximately 70% of users «Facebook» are located outside the United States.
11. Syria, China, Vietnam and Iran have banned «Facebook». In the past, access to social networks blocked in Uzbekistan after being placed on its pages references to the materials of the opposition and news about life in the country.
12. In 2008, «Facebook» Canadian citizen accused Quebec Adam Guerbeza of sending millions of messages by submitting it to the court with a claim to a record 837 million dollars. The court not only granted the «Facebook» against a private person, but did not reduce the amount of the fine. It is the largest in the history of the fine for such violations in history.
13. In September 2009, Mark Zuckerberg first announced that «Facebook» went out on a positive financial balance, that is, the site earned more money than spent.
14. In Florida Advisory Committee of Judicial Ethics forbade judges and lawyers of the state to add each other as a friend on «Facebook».
15. The fastest growing segment of «Facebook» in the United States - women 55 years and older.
16. Russian investment company «Digital Sky Technologies» invested $ 200 mln. in «Facebook» in exchange for 1, 96% interest in the site. Last year the bank «Goldman Sachs» and «DST» jointly invested more than $ 500 million to the development of a social network.
17. Information such as user profile, photographs, names, cities, etc., available to application developers «Facebook», officially considered to be public.
18. The first person to invest in «Facebook», was one of the founders of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who invested in the project $ 500,000 in June 2004.
19. When in «Facebook» Edit privacy settings in December 2009, private photos of Zuckerberg in which he was shirtless, holding a teddy bear and looked drunk, became public.
20. program «Gaydar», developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, can be determined by personal profile «Facebook», gay or not.
21. 20-year-old employee of IBM in Canada has not received sick pay from your insurance company because the insurer saw on her page in «Facebook» cheerful photos posted in the period when she was in the hospital vacation. Her illness was depression.
22. Australia has accused the notification protocol of court notice on «Facebook». Summons (subpoena), placed on the page, the user is legally binding.
23. site called «Usocial» sells its customers friends and fans on «Facebook». Even after the requirements of «Facebook» to stop it, «Usocial» said he did not completely close the service.
24. The post of one of the users on «Facebook» led to kidney donation.
25. Application «Facebook» create 800,000 developers.
Bonus: Facts about the movie The Social Network:
No employee of «Facebook» did not agree to take part in the film.
On the role of Mark Zuckerberg initially considered Shia LaBeouf and Michael Cera.
In the last frame of the film you can see a command prompt window on a notebook Mark Zuckerberg, and it is clear that he is "pinged» localhost, t. E. Himself.
The opening scene with Jesse Eisenberg and Rooney Mara took 8 pages of script in order to remove it took 99 takes.
Justin Timberlake for the role in the film has lost 15-17 pounds, he thought that a thin kind of make it more youthful.
Directed by David Fincher if not tried, but still not able to pick up the twins cast on the role of twins Cameron and Tyler Vinklvossom (classmates of Zuckerberg at Harvard). Then he invited the two different actors for the role of each of the brothers - Armie Hammer (Cameron) and Josh Pence (Tyler). Most look like twins appeared Hammer. And then the team Fincher's visual effects imposed CG-face model Hammer speaking replica Tyler retired. So Hammer played the role of two brothers.
In one scene, it is mentioned that after the launch of the social network Mark Zuckerberg has become "the most popular man, furnished nineteen Nobel Laureates, fifteen Pulitzer winners, two future Olympians, and a movie star." One lawyer clarifies "Who was a movie star?" And receives the answer "Is it important?" This was a movie star Natalie Portman, who studied at Harvard from 1999 to 2003, the year.
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