BB 9/23/15

Good morning Phoenix! It’s Hump Day, and that means it’s time for another Wacky Wednesday!

Today, I bring you: 30 Facts you didn’t know about Facebook!

1. 600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook accounts every day.

2. You can change your Facebook language to “pirate”.

3. The average US Facebook user spends 40 minutes per day on the site.

4. Al Pacino was the first “face” on Facebook.

5. Smart phone users check Facebook an average of 14 times per day.

6. Several people have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook.

7. There are on average 3.74 degrees of separation between any one Facebook user and another.

8. Facebook tracks which sites you visit – even after you have signed out.

9. One in three people feels more dissatisfied with their lives after visiting Facebook, according to a study.

10. Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers red and green color blindness.

11. There are about 30 million dead people on Facebook.

12. Facebook, Twitter, and the NY Times have been blocked in China since 2009.

13. One third of all divorce filings of 2011 in the US contain the word “Facebook”.

14. You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.

15. Facebook earns an average of about $5.85 from each US user.

16. There are more Facebook users from the US than US citizens that voted in the last election.

17. In Britain, a woman was given 20 months in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles to send abusive messages to herself.

18. So many Facebook photos and videos are uploaded via mobile that it takes up 27% of upstream web traffic.

19. Five percent of Brits use Facebook while having sex according to a study.

20. Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, donated $1 Billion dollars to charity in 2013, making him the biggest charitable donor in the US.

21. The “like” button on Facebook was originally going to be called “awesome”.

22. The weeks before Christmas is the most popular time for couples to break up according to data analyzed from Facebook.

23. Every minute, 1.8 million new “likes” are made on Facebook.

24. Facebook is estimated to spend $30 million per month on hosting alone.

25. Facebook loses almost $25,000 every minute it’s down.

26. In 2005, MySpace was in talks to buy Facebook, but rejected Mark Zuckerberg’s asking price of $75 million as “too expensive”.

27. Mark Zuckerberg receives only $1 in salary as CEO of Facebook.

28. Facebook has a feature that will let you designate who will manage your account after you die.

29. In 2009, Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp was turned down for a job at Facebook. Five years later, Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 Billion.

30. 88% of Facebook users “creep” ex partners following a break up, according to a study.

Have a fangtastic day my friends!

<3  Brock V"""V