Most of us have a tendency to take things/services that we use and people who are an integral part of our life for granted.Keeping this thought in mind finally today I decided to write a review on FACEBOOK - A Social networking website that has revolutionized the Internet world with its innovations.There is no doubt that Facebook today is dominating the Internet World.It has become an integral part of most of the people who are using the Internet.
Facebook is a social networking website & was founded in Feb 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, who is the World's youngest self made billionaire along with classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes.
I joined Facebook in the year 2007 when Facebook was not that popular in India.The innovative advancements & changes that Facebook has bought has been one of the main reasons behind is exponential growth & never ending success since then.
The best thing that I loved about Facebook is its Interface & the ease of navigation that it provides to the users.I love its "LIKE" feature which is indicated by a Thumbs Up and it also was one of the only website to start with the Relationship status feature:)
There are so much features that Facebook provides like Chat facility, Group Chat facility, Email's , Private messages, Wall posts, Innumerable applications to play games & for entertainment.It also has an application like Facebook Marketplace for Business people & Professionals to market/promote their product/services.
A user can add innumerable Friends, upload innumerable videos and photos in Facebook.Also the Security Settings feature in Facebook is remarkable & highly secured using which a user can maintain his/her's account privacy.Also Facebook provides a platform for everyone to share videos/links/photos with others even to those who do not have an account in it.It provides a user the feature to create groups, community pages, fan pages for Celebraties, Official pages for companies etc.
Many of the companies & Celebraties use Facebook platform to interact with their customers & fans as well as for promotional purposes.
Facebook has indeed brought the world together today by constantly changing & collaborating advanced technology which has made its users life very easy.I love Face booking, What about you??
Parting thoughts before I conclude I wanted to share some interesting facts about Facebook:-
~ 1 in every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook
~ 35+ demographic represents more than 30% of the entire user base
~ 71.2% of all USA internet users are on Facebook
~ In 20 minutes 1, 000, 000 links are shared on Facebook
~ In 20 minutes 1, 484, 000 event invites are posted
~ In 20 minutes 1, 323, 000 photos are tagged
~ In 20 minutes 1, 851, 000 status updates are entered
~ In 20 minutes 1.972 million friend requests are accepted
~ In 20 minutes 2, 716, 000 photos are uploaded
~ In 20 minutes 2, 716, 000 messages are sent
~ In 20 minutes 10.2 million comments are posted
~ In 20 minutes 1, 587, 000 wall posts are written
~ 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend
~ 48% of young Americans said they found out about news through Facebook
~ 48% of 18 to 34 year old's check Facebook right when they wake up
~ 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day
~ Average user has 130 friends
~ People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
~ There are over 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages)
~ Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events
~ Average user creates 90 pieces of content each month
~ More than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
~ More than 70 translations available on the site
~ About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
~ Over 300, 000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
~ Entrepreneurs and developers from more than 190 countries build with Facebook Platform
~ People on Facebook install 20 million applications every day
~ Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites
~ Since social plugins launched in April 2010, an average of 10, 000 new websites integrate with Facebook every day
~ More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including over 80 of com Score's U.S.
~ Top 100 websites and over half of com Score's Global Top 100 websites
~ There are more than 250 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices
~ People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
~ There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
~ Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage
~ One early Facebook function was a file sharing service
~ The first “Work Networks” as well as the original educational networks included Apple and Microsoft
~ The meaning of the term poke has never been defined
~ There is an ‘App’ to see what’s on the Facebook cafe menu
~ Mark Zuckerburg (CEO of Facebook) calls himself a “Harvard Graduate” when infact he didn’t graduate (apparently his reply is that “there isn’t a setting for dropout”)
~ Australian’s spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7hours on average
~ A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4, 000 on eBay
~ Facebook was initially bank-rolled by Peter Thiel the co-founder of PayPal for $500, 000
~ It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google (at the moment)
~ Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion
~ Facebook makes money through advertising and virtual products
~ Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by Connect U who claimed that Zuckerburg stole the idea and Technology for Facebook (the issue was settled out of court)
~ The USA has the largest Facebook user base with 155 million people which represents 23.6% of Facebook’s total users
~ There is over 16, 000, 000 Facebook fan pages
~ Texas Holdem Poker is the most popular Facebook page with over 41 million fans
~ More than 650 million active users
Hope you liked this review.Your suggestions/feedback is highly appreciated.
Regards,
Prashakth Kamath
