Facebook the king of Social Networks has something new to offer all the time, with all the people connected the social sphere has been changed, a few days ago we wrote about 44 Awesome enthralling Facts about Facebook, that was quite gripping, here we are with 10 facts you actually didn’t know or didn’t care knowing.
1. A man was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for s** over Facebook
Probably one of the worst crimes on Facebook, A Pennsylvanian man was arrested for allegedly asking his teen daughter for s** over Facebook. John Forehand, 39, referred to himself as “Bad Daddy” in the online correspondence with his 13 year-old daughter, in which he openly asked her and made explicit sexual suggestions. The guy told his daughter he had been having “inappropriate” dreams about her, and wrote to her, “I’ll take very good care of my little girl.”
The girl told her mother about the inappropriate Facebook messages, and she then informed the
Cops. The police captured John by tricking him into coming to what he believed would be a meeting with his daughter. How sick is that?
2. Al Pacino was the first ‘face’ on Facebook
Remember the digital guy on the Facebook homepage who used to stare at you every time you went to log in? They did away with him in 2007 means if you were late to the social networking party, then you probably have absolutely no idea what we’re talking about. Anyway according to David Kirkpatrick’s The Facebook Effect , it turns out that that guy in the logo, created by Zuckerberg’s 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.”
3. An 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, that is obvious. Yet despite having hundreds of friends, most people interact regularly only with 4 to 7 people.
How many friends do you have?
4. 25% of users have already been dumped via Facebook
A June 2010 survey of 1,000 Facebook users, 70% of whom were male, found that 25% had been “dumped” via Facebook (via their significant other updating his or her relationship status)
21% 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.
5. Breastfeeding photos are not allowed on Facebook
Facebook provoked a squall of maternal wrath when it deleted photos of breastfeeding babies that women had posted on their personal profiles because it deemed them a little too revealing. This is coming from a website that allows photos of women in thongs and bikinis and of couples making out; it has even accepted paid advertising for a dating website that featured a topless model. (The topless ad was taken down after angry women noted the hypocrisy.)
In response to the notices alerting mothers that they were violating Facebook’s decency policy, lactivists responded with a virtual nurse-in; 11,000 women posted photos of themselves breastfeeding and/or updated their profiles to read: “Hey, Facebook. Breastfeeding Is Not Obscene!”
6. Facebook causes 1 in 5 divorces in the United States
Now, one in five divorces involve 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.
7. 36% of users check Facebook after s**
Lighting a cigarette after s**? That’s so monolithic. A 2009 study by Retrevo suggested that social networks are becoming an increasingly important part of young people’s lives.
Among under-35s: 36% admitted to “tweeting, texting and checking Facebook after sex.”
40% of respondents admitted to doing so while driving
64% said they do so at work, and
65% use these communication channels while on vacation.
8. Burger King gave 5 burgers to people who unfriended users on Facebook
WHOPPER Sacrifice, an advertising campaign from Burger King rewarded Facebook users a free “Angry Whopper” for deleting 10 friends, who would then receive a blunt message informing they were deleted for a free hamburger. The campaign, conceived by Burger King agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky and executed by Refresh Partners, used the tag line “Friendship Is Strong, but The Whopper Is Stronger.” Until now, the application had been downloaded more than 55,000 times and over 250,000 ‘friends’ were sacrificed.