Facebook's first annual Hacker Cup coding challenge was won by a programmer at Google. He showed up at Facebook headquarters to collect his prize wearing his Google employee badge.
- 2.4 billion people used Facebook at least once a month in Q2 2019, while 1.5 billion used it every day.
- Facebook has 43,030 full-time employees as of September 30, 2019.
- Al Pacino was the first "face" on Facebook.
- You can change your language on Facebook to "Pirate."
- By the end of 2019, Facebook had offices in 70 cities worldwide.
- The averageFacebook U S. User spends 38 minutes a day on the site.
- 600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook accounts every day.
- Facebook tracks which sites you visit, even AFTER you have signed out.
- Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg suffers red-green color blindness
- In 2018, Facebook generated US$55.8 billion in revenue, up 37% from 2017.
- There are about 30 million dead people on Facebook.
- Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009.
- A third of all divorce filings of 2011 in the U.S. contained the word "Facebook."
- You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.
- Facebook earns over US$ 33 from every U.S. and Canada user.
- There are more Facebook users from the U.S.than U.S. citizens that voted in the 2012 election.
- A Blogger hired a woman to slap him every time he's on Facebook.
- In Britain, a woman was given 20 months in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles to send abusive messages to herself.
- So many Facebook photos and videos are uploaded via mobile that it takes up 27% of upstream web traffic.
- 5% of Brits use Facebook while having sex, according to a survey.
- Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg donated US $ 1 billion to charity in 2013, making him the biggest charitable donor in the U.S.
- The “Like” button on Facebook was originally going to be called “Awesome”.
- 5% of Facebook users are fake.
- The weeks before Christmas is the most popular time for couples to break up, according to data analyzed from Facebook.
- Every minute, 1.8 million new "likes" are made on Facebook.
- When Zuckerberg created Facebook in 2004, he bragged about people trusting his site with personal information. "Dumb f*cks" he called them.
- Facebook is estimated to spend US $ 30 million a month on hosting alone.
- Facebook loses almost US $ 25,000 for every minute it's down.
- In 2005, MySpace was in talks to buy Facebook, but rejected Mark Zuckerberg's asking price of US $ 75 million as too expensive.
- In 2014, a burglar in Minnesota was caught after he logged into his Facebook account on the home's PC and forgot to log out.
- Facebook has a feature that lets you designate who will manage your account after you die.
- Any text you put into the status update box is sent to Facebook's servers, even if you don't post it.
- In 2009, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton was turned down for a job at Facebook. Five years later, Facebook purchased WhatsApp for US$19 billion.
- 88% of Facebook users 'creep' ex-partners following a breakup, a study found.
- Facebook has 95 million users in China despite being blocked.
- Open up a conversation in Facebook Messenger and type @fbchess play to start a game of chess with a friend.
- Facebook offers 4 months of paid parental leave to new fathers who work for the company.
- One gram of your DNA could store all of Facebook and Google's data.
- Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship to avoid paying US$700 million in taxes.
- The average Facebook user has 155 friends but would turn to just 4 for help, a survey found.
- Facebook runs on 100 million lines of code. That's more than three times the amount needed for an F-35 Fighter Jet.
- When Facebook acquired Instagram for about $1 billion, the company had just 13 employees.
- Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, takes home a US $ 1 salary each year.
- More Facebook users engaged with top fake 2016 election news than with most popular real reporting, a study found.
- In 2016, a 10-year-old Finnish boy was given $ 10,000 by Facebook for finding an Instagram bug that allowed him to delete other user's comments.
- More than half of U.S. mobile users check Facebook's app several times a day.
- Researchers in Norway published a psychological scale to measure Facebook addiction in 2012.
- Several people have been murdered for unfriending someone on Facebook.
- Smartphone users check Facebook 14 times a day.
- There are, on average, 3.74 degrees of separation between any one Facebook user and another.
- Facebook is headquartered in 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California.
- 1 in 3 people feels more dissatisfied with their lives after visiting Facebook, according to a study.