Facebook
has over 350 million active users. More than 35 million users update their
status each day, with more than 55 million status updates each day.f
More
than 2.5 billion pictures are uploaded to Facebook each month.f
The
average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per
month.f
A
recent survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers
acknowledged looking at social networking sites such as Facebook to evaluate
applicants. Thirty-eight percent of admissions officers said that what they saw
negatively affected the applicant.i
Facebook
is not only beating MySpace traffic, but it is also the second-ranked site
overall in the U.S. behind Google.x
Americans
spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook and five billion minutes on
MySpace.
In
2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, where he placed photos
of undergraduates side by side so viewers could rank which one was “hotter.”
Zuckerberg would later turn Facemash into the now ubiquitous Facebook.m
Zuckerberg suffers from red-green colorblindness and sees the color blue best, which is why blue dominates Facebook's color scheme.
AOL and Microsoft tried to
recruit him when he was in high school after he created Synapse, a program that
used artificial intelligence to learn users' music-listening habits.
He wears the same gray Facebook
T-shirt almost every day because he's busy and it saves him time in the morning.
Despite Zuckerberg's casual
wardrobe, he said he wore a tie every day in 2009 to show that Facebook was
serious about growing in the face of the global recession.
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