39 Uncomfortable Truths About Facebook (Part I)

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   Prior to a major homepage redesign back in 2007, Facebook’s front page used to feature a man’s face partly obscured behind a cloud of binary code.Dubbed the “Facebook guy,” it was not known who the mystery man was — until recently. David Kirkpatrick has revealed in his book The Facebook Effect that the image is a manipulated photo of Al Pacino created by a friend and classmate of Mark Zuckerberg.
2. FB have become so popular psychologists identify a new mental health disorder called Facebook Addiction Disorder.
3. Today,400 million people log into their profiles at least once a month, 50% are on the site everyday.
4. You won’t find this in the official Facebook timeline, but one of Facebook’s early add-ons was a peer-to-peer, or more technically friend-to-friend, file sharing service called Wirehog, developed alongside Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg and three others.
5. David Kirkpatrick reveals in The Facebook Effect that Zuckerberg once responded to a question about what a poke meant on the social networking site with: “We thought it would be fun to make a feature that has no specific purpose… So mess around with it, because you’re not getting an explanation from us.”
6. Monthly amount of time spent on FB 8.3 billion hours
7.  In Norway 2, 421,380 people have an active fb account (half of the country s population).
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9. There are currently 100 million active user accesing Facebook  through mobile devices.
10. More than 80,00 websites have implemented Facebook connect, since its general availability in 2008.
11. More than 70 translations available for the website.
12. Average user has 130 friends on the site.
13. More than 3 billion photos uploaded each month on the site.
14. Court notices and summons sent through Facebook are legal and binding in Australia.
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    70% of Facebook users live outside of the US.