Thursday, December 15, 2011

Facebook Facts Fun & Interesting Trivia

You can't block CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.Try it. You'll get an error message that says, "General Block failed error: Block failed."

4 billion daily messages are sent through the Facebook network

The average American spends more time on Facebook than Google, Yahoo, Youtube, Microsoft, Wikipedia and Amazon combined

Microsoft holds a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook

7.5 million profiles on the site are operated by users younger than 13 years old, the minimum age to have a Facebook account


Facebook's "Like" Button Used To Be The "Awesome" Button

The character limit for a Facebook status is 63,206

There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook

About 8.3 billion hours are spent on Facebook every month

Psychologists have identified a new mental health disorder called Facebook Addiction Disorder


Every month, over 25 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook

99 percent of the nearly 500 million users on Facebook have uploaded at least one photo

One in 40 Facebook users is in India

Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a “Harvard Graduate” on his Facebook profile when he dropped out of college

California is the most social state on Facebook, with over 15 million users in the region

Facebook has enough users to put 75 people on every one of the over 6.6 million square miles of Russia

f Facebook were a country, it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, after China, India, the U.S., and Indonesia

In 2009, an EMT at the crime scene took a cell phone picture of the body of a New York woman who had been strangled and beaten and then posted it on his Facebook profile. He was later arrested on charges of official misconduct and was fired from his job

Facebook users over the age 26 now represent 60% of the total U.S. Facebook population

The average Facebook users spend more than 55 minutes a day on the site. They use the Like button nine times a month and write 25 comments each month

Approximately 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States