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Facebook is the most popular social networking website nowadays. It is started in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, an American programmer. Based on his net worth, estimated to be US$53,7 billion on August 2016, he is the 5th richest person in the world.
The story of Facebook could be so long. It was built with full of journey and unbelievable facts. Up till now, there are still some facts and great information worth to be known and learned. Here, we have provided most of the important facts about Facebook taken from various resources. Few of you probably didn't know and it could be all of you didn't know them at all before. So, let's go to see 30 wonderful facts about Facebook below.
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There are about 600,000 hacking attacks are conducted daily to Facebook accounts. According to Internet powerhouse, there are at least 1 billion log-ons every 24 hours, and 0.06% of them are attacked by hackers. Also, Big Brother reported that 160,000 Facebook pages are hacked per day.
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You can change your Facebook language to English (Pirate), an English language spoken by pirates, and Leet Speak, a language includes alternative alphabet used in internet mainly by programmers.
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India is the largest country with Facebook users in 2016 according to The Statistics Portal.
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As its name suggests, Facebook describes itself with a face and book as profile. Al Pacino was the first face to appear on Facebook in 2007. But, now it shows no face picture. Previously, Facebook was named TheFacebook.
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People of United States check Facebook 48 times a day while all of Americans collectively check their mobile phone 8 billion times a day based on study conducted by Deloitte.
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Even after you have logged out, Facebook records what websites you visit. It uses cookies to track your activity outside Facebook. The reason could be purposed for its statistics information and enhancement and does not sell the information it gathers.
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Research done by German researchers found that people who spent their minutes on Facebook were to feel worse and more dissatisfied compared to they felt before signing in.
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There once somebody asked, "Why Facebook is blue?". It is because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind according to The New Yorker. Zuck also said that blue is the richest color for him.
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Facebook has more than one billion users. But, it loses about 10,000 users every day because of deaths. In 2012, there were about 30 million people on Facebook passed away. They simply know this through a feature they provides for Facebook users to report deceased person.
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Most of social media, including Facebook, were blocked in China since 2009. Others are Twitter, YouTube, Google, and many more.
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There is one interesting fact that Mark Zuckerberg can't be blocked on Facebook by anyone since he is the founder of Facebook.
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Facebook earned $17,92 Million in 2015. Which means, it got $49,11 every day in revenues. For those who don't know, Facebook makes money from ads and shares of Facebook applications.
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A Blogger from San Fransisco doesn't like himself every time he checks his Facebook because it makes him unproductive. But, he couldn't afford to not open it. Thus, he hired a woman to slap him in the face whenever he wastes his time on Facebook.
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There is a syndrome called Facebook Syndrome. Person who suffers this physiological illness has many symptoms, one of which is feeling anxiety when haven't opened Facebook to check the news feed for time. Do you have this disease indication?
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The 'Like' button on Facebook was initially going to be named 'Awesome'. But, Mark Zuckerberg didn't agree as he thought it was not a good choice.
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According to statistics that Facebook gathers, approaching Christmas there are a lot of couples that breaks up annually.
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There are about 1.8 million new likes are made each minute on Facebook, describing that it is to be one of the most used features on Facebook.
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At the first time Mark Zuckerberg established Facebook for fun in 2004 and got few thousand members signed up, he called them, "dumb f*ck" for trusting their personal identity on Facebook.
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In 2015, Facebook would pay about US$1.5 billion on hosting itself.
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Whenever Facebook is down, it loses at least US$25,000 for each minute. It also affects to other app such as Facebook app and Messenger.
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There was an interesting story in 2005 when MySpace was about to buy Facebook. Zuck rejected and asked MySpace to buy it at price US$75 million. MySpace CEO, Chris DeWolfe said no, considered to be too expensive.
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Mark Zuckerberg, despite of being billionaire, gladly prefers to earn a US$ 1 salary per year as CEO of Facebook. The rest of money he could have received are given to charity. Beside, he still can make a living from his side jobs.
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There was a burglar that was caught in Minnesota in 2014 because he had his Facebook account remain logged in on his home computer. He didn't sign it out, making him finally arrested.
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Facebook is a big company which also runs social networking other than Facebook such as Instagram, and WhatsApp.
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Even if you haven't posted your status update yet and you have put your text into the box while haven't hit the post button, Facebook's servers are able to track your text that have been typed.
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Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp rejected a job at Facebook. Five years after, in 2014, WhatsApp bought by Facebook for US$19 billion.
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Despite being blocked since 2009, there are up to 95 million Facebook users in China. They are able to unblock Facebook using many alternative ways such as VPN.
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Facebook has an international programming competition named Hacker Cup which is held annually. The winner of the first event (at 2011) was a programmer from Google. When he appeared on the stage, he was wearing his Google employee badge.
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You can play chess virtually with your friend using Facebook Messenger. Simply make a conversation in Messenger with friend you want to play with and then send @fbchess as a message. A chess game will show up and ready to be played online with your friend.
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Did you know? That a gram of your DNA could save 455 exabytes (1,000,000 terabytes) information? It means one gram of your DNA is able to keep all of Facebook and even Google's data inside it.
Those are the list we provided. The facts are very wonderful and worth-knowing, aren't they? We really can learn from these Facebook facts. Hope they give you benefit and knowledge.
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