Amazing Facebook Facts You Probably Dont Know (or Dont Care) 1.The average user has 130 friends are you worried about your popularity? The average number of friends on Facebook is 130, and women tend to have somewhat more than men. Yet despite having hundreds of friends, most people only interact regularly with 4 to 7 people. So, whats YOUR number? 2. Over 25% of users have already been dumped via Facebook in June 2010 survey of 1,000 Facebook user -70% of whom were male found that 25% had been dumped via Facebook (via their significant other updating his or her relationship status) Twenty-one percent of those surveyed said they would end a relationship by changing their Facebook relationship statuses to single. While worrisome, the survey does show the majority of people do not split up via Facebook. 3. Facebook causes 1 in 5 Divorces It used to be the tell-tale lipstick on the collar. Then there were the give-away texts that spelled the death knell for many marriages. But now one in five divorces involve the social networking site Facebook, according to a new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. A staggering 80 per cent of divorce lawyers have also reported a spike in the number of cases that use social media for evidence of cheating. 4. Al Pacino was the first ‘face on Facebook Remember that sad-looking blue guy on Facebooks homepage who used to stare you down every time you went to log in? They did away with him in 2007, so if you were late to the social networking party, then you probably have absolutely no idea what were talking about. Anyway according to David Kirkpatricks The Facebook Effect , it turns out that that guy in the logo, created by Zuckerbergs friend and classmate Andrew McCollum, was none other than a young Al Pacino “covered with a fog of ones and zeros the elementary components of digital media.” Crazy, right? 5. Over 350million people suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) is a term introduced by US phychologists for those who are addicted to Facebook and their life is really affected by their uncontrolled activities on Facebook. The most common effects are the loss of productivity, the inability to concentrate, the superficiality of friendships as well as isolation in the extreme cases. It has been said that approximately 350 million people are suffering from the disorder.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:00:11 +0000
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