Some intresting facts about facebook

As we all know facebook is best social networking site, most if us are completely familiar with facebook as we have account on it.

Here are some intresting facts about it like when it was discovered... what was he purpose behind this and so on..



Lets start from here...

• Facebook was launched by Harvard Student Mark zuckerberg and his roommates in february 2004.'

• It was initially called The Facebook.
• It was a site for Harvard students to connect with one another.
• Within a month of its launching, more than half of Harvard's undergraduate population had a profile on facebook.
• More than 60 % of men and women have used Facebook to stalk their ex.
• More than 30 million users update their status at least once each day.
• Around 85% of all college students use Facebook and 70% of them log in everyday.
• The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per month.
• The average Facebook users spend more than 55 minutes a day on the site. They use the Like button nine times a month and write 25 comments each month.
• There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook

• It is the second-ranked site overall in the U.S. behind Google.
• As of july 2010, over 500 millions people are using facebook.
• Facebook revenue stems from Ads, applications and credits.
• Facebook's games are really popular.
• Farmville Claimed over 83,000,000 active users in feb 2010.

• Mafia Wars claimed over 25,000,000 active users in feb 2010.

• Current valuations of facebook are upwards 20Billion $.
• Facebook was operating with more than 60,000 servers in 2009.

Intresting Youtube Facts!!!

We all are very much familiar with Youtube, for those who don't know YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos.Here are some intresting facts about Youtube.

• Youtube .com was founded by Steven Chen, Chad Harley and Jawed Karim, they were friends and were working for PayPal at the time.

• It was created in order for the friends to share video clips of a dinner party, which were too large to email.
• First video was posted on April 23,2005 by one of its founder Jawed Karim.
• First video was Me at Zoo and it was 18 seconds long, It has Karim and some elephants.

• You tube Domain's Birthday is Valentine day (14 feb 2005).
• More than 50% youtube users are 20 year older or younger.
• Country who pasts as well as watches the most videos is United states.
• Most popular video on Youtube is Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, it has been viewed more than 250 million times.
• 70% of youtube users are Americans.
• 20% of Youtube videos are categorized as Music.
• Average visitor spends 15 minutes everyday on YouTube.
• On an average 10 number of videos uploaded per second on youtube.
• You would need 1700 years to watch all videos present on youtube today.
• Acoording to Alexa, It is 3rd most popular website in world.