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Facebook Facts
Posted by: | CommentsHere are some Facebook Facts taken from Sunday 14th March 2010
• 2nd highest rank site according to http://www.alexa.com
• on average 30% of global internet users visit facebook.com
• Over the last three months users are spending an average of 32 minutes per day on Facebook
• www.facebook.com was very registered on 29-Mar-1997 – my Birthday.
• 29.3% of facebook’s traffic comes for the United States, with 1.7% from Australia.
• The next biggest percentage of country users is France with 4.9
• According to http://websitereckon.com/facebook.com, Facebook is worth $2,147,483,647, and has 2,000,000,000 daily pageviews.
These statistics are taken from www.facebook.com
Company Figures
- More than 400 million active users
Users
- Over 400 million active (users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days)
- 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- More than 35 million users update their status each day
- More than 60 million status updates posted each day
- More than 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
- More than 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each week
- More than 3.5 million events created each month
- More than 3 million active Pages on Facebook
- More than 1.5 million local businesses have active Pages on Facebook
- More than 20 million people become fans of Pages each day
- Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans
Average User Figures
- Average user has 130 friends on the site
- Average user sends 8 friend requests per month
- Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook
- Average user clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month
- Average user writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month
- Average user becomes a fan of 4 Pages each month
- Average user is invited to 3 events per month
- Average user is a member of 13 groups
International Growth
- More than 70 translations available on the site
- About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
- Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
Platform
- More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
- Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
- More than 500,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
- More than 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users
- More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since its general availability in December 2008
- More than 60 million Facebook users engage with Facebook Connect on external websites every month
- Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have implemented Facebook Connect
Mobile
- There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
- People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
- There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
How to Set Up Your Facebook Account
Posted by: | CommentsIn this post I am going to show you step by step how to set up your Facebook Account.
1. Go to Facebook
2. Enter your:
- First Name
- Surname
- Email Address
- Password
- Gender
- Date of Birth
As per Facebook’s Terms & Conditions you must use your legal name
“Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Here are some commitments you make to us relating to registering and maintaining the security of your account:
1. You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
2. You will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain (such as selling your status update to an advertiser).
3. You will not use Facebook if you are under 13.
4. You will not use Facebook if you are a convicted sex offender.
5. You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.
6. You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.
7. You will not transfer your account to anyone without first getting our written permission.
8. If you select a username for your account we reserve the right to remove or reclaim it if we believe appropriate (such as when a trademark owner complains about a username that does not closely relate to a user’s actual name).”
3. Select Sign Up
4. Enter the information for the security code
Facebook now takes you through three steps which assist with your profile set up.
5. Step One – find friend using your email account (access your email account and find your friend from their email address). I don’t recommend doing this but it’s your choice. As I use Facebook to find new clients, so you just don’t want to transfer your whole email contact list.
6. Step Two – adding your school, college (university) or company details (this is so Facebook can recommend possible friends)
7. Step Three – uploading your photo – click on “upload from computer”
This brings up pop up window and from this box select “Choose File”. Browse your computer for photo. If you don’t have a photo and you have webcam you can take a picture to use, select “take a photo”. I would however recommend getting an image from your computer and taking the time to get a good photo of you.
8. You will now receive two emails
Welcome To Facebook
This contains useful links to parts of Facebook
The second one is important as you have to click on the link provided to activate your account.
You have now created your Facebook Account.
