History of Facebook? | Interesting things about facebook

In today's digital age Can we live without a social media platform like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. Of course not. 

Today, the social media platform has made the whole world come together in just one click !!

Today, we read the news from home, watch the news, and chat with our friends and relatives in the distance. One can talk to each other through video calls. All this is possible due to the social media platform.

In this article, we are going to learn about one such well-known social media platform i.e. Facebook.

So today we are going to know about Facebook. Today almost everyone uses Facebook but they don't know much about it.

Facebook is a social networking website/web application that is free to use. It was founded in the United States on 4 February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook headquarter is  in Menlo Park, California in the United States.

Let's know a little bit about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York.

Facebook was founded in 2004 with the support of Mark Zuckerberg and his friends while studying at Harvard University.

For promoting Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues used to go to every college and provide information about Facebook. His friends are worth it.

Some interesting things about Facebook:

• You need to be a member of Facebook to use Facebook. You must be 13 years old to become a member.

• Facebook acquired Instagram in April 2012 for $ 1 billion. Likewise, the WhatsApp application bought on February 24 for $ 19 billion.

• Facebook.com was registered in August 2005 and was widely used in universities across the United States and the United Kingdom.

• In September 2007, Facebook was released across the country, and it was widely used. With the growing popularity of Facebook, prominent companies around the world began to sign up with Facebook for advertising.

• In 2008, Facebook decided to open its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

• With the growing popularity, the number of people joining Facebook in 2009 increased from millions to billions.

• In 2010, a number of companies in the Telecom area joined with Facebook. In 2011, for security reasons facebook change its privacy policy and setting in the Facebook application. This that the user is able to set the amount of personal information he or she can display.

• Facebook can be used in over 70 languages.

• You can block any Facebook user through the privacy settings on Facebook. But you can't block Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg no matter how much you try, and if you try to do it, you'll see an error message from Facebook.

• About 83% of Facebook users' fan pages are made up of Facebook.

•  If you are doing something else while Facebook Logged in, then Facebook records all your activities.

• Mark first decided to give the name 'Awesome' to Facebook's 'Like' button, but his colleagues suggested the name 'Like' instead of 'Awesome.'

• Everyone knows the Poke button on Facebook, but it's a wonder that even Facebook employees don't know how to use it!! If you multiple times use this button, your Facebook account may be blocked.
• According to a survey, 50% of the people who use the Internet have a Facebook account.

• If Facebook's server crashed or goes down, Facebook could lose $ 25,000.  

• You might be surprised to know that Yahoo and Mtv's so-called company had expressed its desire to bought Facebook at $ 1 million.

• You may be surprised to know, but nearly 35 million people around the world have had an addiction to Facebook. This disease is called FAD. Therefore, you should make limited use of Facebook.

• About 6 million hackers attack Facebook every day. From this you can understand the fame of Facebook.

• The monthly Expenditure of Facebook hosting costs per month was estimated at $ 30 million.

• In 2011, Facebook became the leading cause of divorce in the United States. In America today, Facebook is the reason for 1 in every 5 marriage breaks.

• You know the shortcut way to go to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's profile.If not, try this: Type 4 digits in front of Facebook.com. (https://www.facebook.com/4) You will immediately be taken to Mark Zuckerberg's Fb Profile.

• If you can hack Facebook, you will be rewarded with $ 500 from Facebook. That's why nearly 6 million hackers try to attack Facebook every day.

• There are profiles of nearly 30 million dead people on Facebook. If a person dies, does his profile continue to be so? So the answer is no, if is there is any relatives of a dead person can report to Facebook to Transfer that profile to a Memorialized Account.

So friends we have discussed our favorite social media Facebook application. Of course, you might like this article. Click on the below link to know  How and when did Facebook buy WhatsApp, what is the history of WhatsApp?

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