Interesting Facts about Facebook

Facebook is a well-known and popular social networking site that has introduced countless people to their friends, family, and acquaintances. With Facebook, distance is not a barrier and you can instantly connect to your people in any corner of the world. Moreover, it allows you to share everyday moments through pictures or messages. Facebook has updated itself to accommodate shopping ideas, crafts, cooking, news report, and even the smallest things over time. Today more than 2 billion people are registered on FB. This means that every 7th person in the world uses Facebook.

Founder of Facebook

The founder of Facebook is Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. He was born on 14 May 1984 in New York, USA. He came up with a site called Facebook while studying at Harvard University. Zuckerberg is counted amongst one of the world's youngest billionaires.

Its History

Let us touch on the history of social networking sites like Facebook. The quick progress of Facebook in a very short time has made its history even more interesting. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg created Facebook with Dmy Lin, college roommates, and fellow Harvard University students. Eduardo Saverin took care of business aspects and Dustin Moskovitz did the programming. Andrew McCollum contributed as a graphics artist and Chris Hughes promoted Zuckerberg's website.

As a social networking service, it was launched as TheFacebook on February 04, 2004. Initially, a committee was formed at Harvard University. Later, it was expanded to universities like Stanford, Ivy League, and Boston. In 2004, Zuckerberg was elected as President at Headquarters in California. Since then, it has been progressing smoothly.

Milestones since the inception

• In August 2005, it was acquired and registered in the name of Facebook.com. It was signed in September 2005. After that, it started spreading to all the universities of America and Britain. Gradually it started spreading all over the world.
• In September 2006, it emerged in a big way. It could be used by creating id with the help of an old, registered email address. It helped Facebook connect with big websites.
• In 2007, seeing the fame of Facebook, many big business companies joined Facebook to promote business. With this development, Facebook started earning billions of dollars. In 2007, Microsoft bought Facebook and incorporated it by acquiring the rights to international advertising.
• In 2008, it was decided to open the international headquarters of Facebook in Dublin, Ireland. Along with this, the graph of its progress has grown tremendously.
• In 2009, Facebook broke all the records of progress when the number of users on this site reached millions.
• In 2010, seeing the choice of people on Facebook, many big mobile companies and online shopping companies made a big deal.
• In 2011, given the increasing use of Facebook, some changes were made to protect users' personal data. Under which the users can set up accounts on their own so that cybercrime can be prevented.
• In 2012, Facebook broke its record, and its share prices skyrocketed in the US.
• In 2015, Facebook changed its algorithm to identify misleading and false content (fake news, rumors, stories) and keep its visitors safe. Fake news and rumors spread like wildfire.
• If we take out a general report of Facebook since 2013 till date, then its fame has increased so much that every second person is familiar with Facebook, and also uses it.

Interesting Facts

• Users can translate Facebook pages into 70 different languages.
• Even if you do any other work on the internet after logging into your Facebook account it records all your activity.
• If you use the poke feature excessively, you will get blocked.
• Around 6 lakh hacker attacks occur on Facebook every single day.
• Facebook globe (notifications tab) changes according to the locations of users.
• The constitution of Iceland was written in 2011 with the help of Facebook.
• Facebook spends 10 million dollars every month on hosting.
• If you successfully hack Facebook, an amount of 500 dollars will be given to you. Even if you find a single mistake, you will be entitled to a reward.
• There are 30 million dead people on Facebook. If someone dies whom you know, you can report to FB and get that profile as a memorialized account.
• As per a released report, around 14.3 crore accounts are fake and the majority of them are from India.
Facebook and Business
Facebook can help you grow your business:
• You can create an attractive business page and ask your friends to like it. Here you can showcase your product and offers. You have to consistently update this page.
• Search active groups concerning your products or services and join them to make your page visible to the maximum number of people. Numerous groups are active on this platform to sell or buy products and services.
• Create open groups to promote your product. Answer people's questions, receive feedback and build trust among people to talk more about your offerings.
• Facebook hosts the marketplace as an open platform for the purchase and sale of products. Visit https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/learn-more to join the Facebook marketplace. List your products under different categories. Interested buyers contact you via messenger chat to negotiate payment and delivery. Facebook does not charge anything for this.
• Improve your awareness about Facebook Ads to ensure that your product is reaching out to people. You can set the ad to add more 'likes' and people to promote a selected part of your page. Use Promote button at the bottom left of the business page to create an ad. You have to keep your target segment in mind. Use appropriate SEO keywords to attract potential customers. You can even set a one-time budget for your ad.

Advantages of Facebook

There are countless things you can search and ask through Facebook. The list is endless including, photos, videos, jokes, poems, stories, cooking recipes, exam preparation, freelance opportunities, and shopping.

• In today's world when time is a constraint. Facebook is a medium through which people can easily connect and chat from anywhere and anytime.
• While publishing a post, you can share how you are feeling at the moment.
• There are pages and groups on all types of categories and topics on Facebook. These are sources to extract all types of information.
• There are groups and pages that help freelancers get online work.
• Business promotion and advertising campaigns are cheap and convenient on Facebook to reach out to a large number of people.
• Facebook groups and pages are a great source of entertainment.
• Facebook launched Hashtag# to help users to find trending topics in the cyberworld.
• Facebook Instant Article is a new feature designed for mobile users and publishers. It also works in slow internet areas. A publisher can convert its web content into instant articles and post them on Facebook. Users can read the post directly on Facebook without opening the browser. Any webpage can be converted into an instant article. It opens faster than a simple webpage.

Disadvantages of Facebook

• For lack of awareness about privacy settings, some users run the risk of getting their accounts hacked.
• Your every action is known to everyone through notifications.
• Many groups and pages exchange bad words and hurt one another's feelings for political or religious ideologies.
• Some people adopt wrong methods to know the information of others.
• Facebook is addictive, and people spend a disproportionate amount of time avoiding studies and other productive works. About 350 million people are suffering from FAD (Facebook Addiction Disorder).
• Accounts with incorrect information are another threat that violates Facebook rules. Facebook blocks such accounts.

Thus, Facebook offers myriads of advantages in today’s globalized and digitalized world. Read Dehradun News
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