14 Totally Weird Facts About Facebook

Facebook stats are boring because everyone knows them

Everyone talks about the stats on Facebook.  How many users, how often they log on, how many use Facebook on mobiles….. it’s all growing very boring.

What’s not boring is:

1. Facebook is available in 70 different languages.
2. Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application.
3. In 2011, an Egyptian baby was named “Facebook” to commemorate the key role Facebook played in Egypt’s revolution.
4. An Israeli couple named their daughter after the Facebook ‘like’ feature on 16^th May 2011 because they like the meaning behind the word.
5. Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage.
6. A Facebook employee hoodie sold for $4,000 on eBay.
7. A couple got murdered because they unfriended someone on Facebook (Billy Clay Payne Jr. and Billie Jean Hayworth decided to de-friend Jenelle Potter on Facebook. In response, Jenelle’s father killed them.)
8. One of Facebook’s early functions was a file sharing service.
9. The meaning of the term ‘poke’ has never been defined.
10. ‘The Social Network’ (a film about the founding of Facebook) won several prominent awards at the 68^thGolden Globe Awards, British Academy Film Awards and 83^rd Academy Awards in 2011.
11. Facebook profile reunites lost family members. For example, Tony Macnauton (father) met his daughter (Frances Simpson) after 48 years.
12. Frito-Lay potato chips official Facebook page created a new world record where over 1.5 million new fans joined its profile page in 24 hour on 11^th April 2011.
13. Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by ConnectU who claimed that Zuckerburg stole the idea and Technology for Facebook.
14. Our client Coast Radar is growing exponentially through Facebook (and us!)