39 Uncomfortable Truths About Facebook (Part II)

16. In 2008, a 23-year-old woman named Lauren Michaels created a group titled “I Need Sex” on Facebook. Within 10 minutes, she had 35 members and soon attracted 100—50 of whom she eventually slept with. Facebook has since removed her page.

17. Among children under 18, Facebook was ranked third in the top 100 searches of 2009, behind YouTube and Google. Sex and porn rounded out the top five searches.

18. 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.
19. Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook and five billion minutes on MySpace.

20. An 18-year-old Wisconsin man posed as several different girls on Facebook to blackmail underage male teens into performing sexual favors by coaxing them to send nude photos of themselves. He could be facing up to 300 years in prison.

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

22. 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.

23. The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales warned that Facebook and MySpace can lead children to commit SUICIDE because such sites encourage teens to build transient relationships and dehumanize community life.


24. Facebook includes eating disorder groups such as “Get Thin or Die Trying,” and “Quod me nutrit me destruit” (“What nourishes me destroys me”). While such eating disorder sites were typically anonymous on the Web, their growing presence on Facebook makes them more public and accessible to more people.

25. A 39-year-old Pennsylvania father was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook.

26. While stressing that correlation does not equal causation, a recent poll suggested that Facebook users have lower overall grades than non-users.

27. While initially created for college students, Facebook users over the age 26 now represent 60% of the total U.S. Facebook population.

28. Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook.

29. Lamebook.com is a regularly updated site that reposts “lame” and funny Facebook user posts.

30. Facebook’s fastest growing segment in the United States is women 55 years and older.

31. Twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss claim Zuckerberg stole their idea after they hired him to do programming for their own site, Harvard Connect (ConnectU). The case was settled for an undisclosed sum. Others, such as fellow student, Aaron Greenspan, also claim they invented Facebook.


32. Both citizens and police departments are increasingly using Facebook to catch suspected criminals.

33. In January 2009, an advertising campaign from Burger King titled “WHOPPER Sacrifice” rewarded Facebook users a free “Angry Whopper” for publicly deleting 10 friends, who would then receive a blunt message informing they were deleted for a free hamburger.

34. Eleven percent of Facebook’s 100 million U.S. users are African-American, 9% are Latino, and 6% are Asian, which is a fairly accurate reflection of the U.S. general population.

35. Girls can be prone to anxiety and depression by talking too much to their friends on Facebook. Called “co-rumination,” frequently discussing the same problem can lead to an unhealthy obsession.

36. A site called Usocial offered to sell Facebook friends and fans to customers. Even after receiving a Cease and Desist from Facebook, Usocial said it will not shut down the service completely.

37. Farmville boasts more than 60 million players on Facebook. Zynga—the maker of Farmville, Mafia Wars, and other Facebook games—boasts an annual revenue of more than $200 million

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

39. Facebook was originally named TheFaceBook and it was developed by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. The first use of the FaceBook was on the Harvard campus and it was limited only to Harvard students. Soon the FaceBook spread like wild fire around the other major U.S. Universities. Mark Zuckerberg dropped the Harvard and pursued his facebook dream to become one of the 4th most-trafficked websites in the world

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