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Facebook is the largest social networking site available today. It was started February 4, 2004 and still growing with it's 845 million users, all over the world. After all this year Facebook had cross so many hurdles and now ranking #2, worldwide, as mention by Alexa. So, here is some 10 vital key points about Facebook and FB-Addiction.
- 10 Things You Should Know About Facebook
- Facebook was started with $19,000 only, as a private company
- Facebook was first started, named "thefacebook". The company dropped "The" from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.
- Mark Zuckerberg is the permanet CEO for Facebook, as long as he wants.
- On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.
- Facebook reached one trillion pageviews in the month of June 2011, making it the most visited website in the world.
- Facebook never remove any images or media files once you upload.
- Facebook officially launched Messenger for Windows, which gives users of Windows 7 access to some Facebook services without using a web browser.
- Facebook is built in PHP which is compiled with HipHop for PHP, a source code transformer built by Facebook engineers that turns PHP into C++. The deployment of HipHop reportedly reduced average CPU consumption on Facebook servers by 50%.
- In April 2012 Facebook bought the application Instagram for US$1 billion.
- Facebook now is a public company, worth $100 billion, and earn at minimum $1,500,000 per day.
Facebook is the largest social networking site available today. It was started February 4, 2004 and still growing with it's 845 million users, all over the world. After all this year Facebook had cross so many hurdles and now ranking #2, worldwide, as mention by Alexa. So, here is some 10 vital key points about Facebook and FB-Addiction.
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