FACTS ABOUT FACEBOOK!!!

Some Facts and Trivia about Facebook.

Facebook now is the largest and the strongest social networking site now and it has over 350 million users. Can you imagine that? If you would consider Facebook as a country it would be the fifth most populated country in the whole world. Facebook really gave a great impact on the generation today, for me, it is somehow has good and bad effects to the users. But, that is another story; we are talking about the facts about facebook. So, another fact that I think you’d be interested to hear is that facebook is being blocked in some countries. Yes! It is true, Facebook is being blocked in Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran. The countries are blocking Facebook from entering the them, I don’t know how they are doing it, but that was interesting. I have read that Syria is concerned about the teachings and the other negative posts or applications in Facebook that it will infect the mind of the people of Syria. I personally think that as bullshit. Why are they blocking Facebook from the country, to think that the past social networking sites have invaded them in the past? That is very weird for me. Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran are not the only country who protects its countrymen. It is also up to the people if they will be affected by the bad things they see in Facebook or not, as if they are not being invaded by bad teachings in other ways.

Another fact that I want to share with you is the competitors of Facebook. Do you know who got threaten by Facebook? It is not multiply, not Friendster, not even Twitter, it is Google and Yahoo. It is not even in their line of competitors, well maybe in some point, but it is interesting that the two got threaten by Facebook. To think, that they are the biggest search engine in the world and they are the pioneers in that line of sites. I don’t really know if they are threatened or they just want to buy Facebook to enhance their profit. But, I think they are threatened that Facebook might establish a application that has a search engine in that way, Yahoo and Google will loose profit. Well, in fact they are loosing profit because the advertisements that supposed to be theirs are going to Facebook. Facebook has become the most populated site in the internet world today. Yahoo, offered to buy out Facebook with 1 billion dollars, and Google is offering 2 billion dollars but Facebook declined. Facebook truly proved to the world that a simple invention that is not even serious can provide mass profit in just a short span of time.

Well, do you know who Facebook’s owner/creator was? Mark Zuckerberg, he is the genius who created the billion dollar site. He is only twenty-five years of age, can you believe that? Wow, many young entrepreneurs look up to him this days, can you imagine some college student became an instant billionaire in just a matter of 3 years. How fast is that? Forbes dubbed him as the world’s youngest billionaire. He’s worth is about 1.5 billion. Wow!  That is really a lot of money. I personally idolize him because he got that money with what? Not even spending over a thousand dollars and look how much profit he earned? Mark Zuckerberg is truly a very lucky man, and I think his parents are really proud of him. Facebook is still a growing company now and its worth is becoming more and more expensive.

Another fact about Facebook is the real inventor of it. Some Harvard students who I think was group mates or friends of Mark Zuckerberg claims that they are the inventors of Facebook. Twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss say that they are the real inventors of Facebook and they only hired Zuckerberg to do the programming. They said that Zuckerberg stole their idea and claimed that it is his. Others, such as fellow student, Aaron Greenspan, also claim they invented Facebook. For me, they are just some students who are part of the project that in the first place did not think that the project will hit the high ranks and earn billions. I think Zuckerberg just forgot to give them some money when Facebook hit the ranks so they are now trying to claim the site from him. All of them I think are frauds. They are only envy of Zuckerberg’s big success. Well, even if what they are saying is true, Facebook will still remain to Zuckerberg who pursued it in to getting in high ranks. Because, first of all, they have all made it as a project only, and they did not sign any contract or anything that says they will turn it into a business. Maybe they are saying the truth that they made Facebook, but I think before, they did not care about it and disregarded the thought of it earning billions. Now that it earns money, they are running after it and claiming it as their own.

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