FACTS ABOUT FACEBOOK:
Facebook was originally bankrolled by a co-founder of Paypal for $500,000. 400,000,000 people log into their profile at least once a month. Half of those people log in every day. 70% of Facebook users live outside of the US. 44.1% of Denmark has an active Facebook profile. Only Google gets more traffic. Yahoo! tried to buy Facebook in 2006 for $1,000,000,000. 8,300,000,000 hours are spent on Facebook monthly. The fastest growing demographic in America on Facebook: Women 55+. FAD is a mental disorder – Facebook Addiction Disorder. FAD. Ironic. Court notices and summons sent through Facebook are legal and binding in Australia.There is evidence that founder Mark Zuckerberg stole many of the ideas and much of the code from ConnectU. They sued Facebook and settled for an undisclosed amount.
AL PASINO’s FACE WAS ON THE ORIGINAL FACEBOOK HOMEPAGE:
Prior to a major homepage redesign back in 2007, Facebook’s front page used to feature a man’s face partly obscured behind a cloud of binary code.
Dubbed the “Facebook guy,” it was not known who the mystery man was — until recently. David Kirkpatrick has revealed in his book The Facebook Effect that the image is a manipulated photo of Al Pacino created by a friend and classmate of Mark Zuckerberg.
FACTS ABOUT GOOGLE:
GOOGLE’s FIRST TWEET:
Google’s first ever Twitter post was as satisfyingly geeky as you could hope for. The message, sent in February 2009, reads “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.”
For anyone not fluent in binary, here’s a hint — it’s a well known phrase from the company’s homepage. Got it? Yep, it reads: “I’m feeling lucky.”
This one isn’t actually one of Google’s infamous April Fools’ Day jokes: Google rents out goats. Yes you read that right. It rents goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the amount of weeds and brush at Google HQ.
BY
T.MONISHA
III CSE
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