Upon researching into Facebook, its privacy settings and any relevant statistics, I found many facts which could influence the outcome I will eventually produce. Some of these are found on the Facebook infographics I recently posted.
Facts (The ones highlighted in bold relate more to the article I found).
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Nearly 40,000 Facebook users signed up for a $1,000 Ikea gift card offer and joined a related Facebook fan page and were duped into providing personal information on an outside Web site including their birth date and home phone number.
news.cnet.com
Facebook has not been able to screen all of its ads. It hasn't done a great job of vetting which ads are safe and which are not. As a result, you may get an ad in your profile when you are browsing around one day that has malicious code in it. In fact, earlier this year, there was an ad with malware that asked people to download antivirus software that was actually a virus.
news.cnet.com
The personal details of more than a fifth of Facebook’s estimated 500 million users have been “leaked” to the internet by campaigners highlighting its “terrifying” privacy fears. The list, which has been published in a downloadable file, contains the URL of every searchable Facebooks user’s profiles, their names and unique ID. Campaigners warned the list, published on “Pirate Bay”, the world's biggest filesharing website, affected more than 100 million users on the social networking site. But its publication provoked concern from privacy experts who said it proved Facebook’s “confusing” privacy settings were still apparent. But the company defended its privacy settings and denied any “private data” had been made available or comprised, saying the information was already available. www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook
Facebook's privacy policy has grown significantly over time. It is now longer than the United States Constitution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/technology
Almost half of Denmark has an active Facebook profile (2,421,380 people out of 5,484,723 total).
www.facebakers.com
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 (at the time).
www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2007/ oct0710-24FacebookPR.mspx
More than 150 million people engage with Facebook on external websites every month
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
A recent survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social networking sites such as Facebook to evaluate applicants. Thirty-eight percent of admissions officers said that what they saw negatively affected the applicant.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122170459104151023.html
More than 150 million active users access Facebook through mobile devices across 200 mobile operators in 60 countries.
www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
Court notices and summons sent through Facebook are legal and binding in Australia.
A teenager from Hertfordshire who mistakenly posted her address and phone number on Facebook to publicise a birthday party ended up with 21,000 promised guests. Rebecca Javeleau, 14, mistakenly made the details public when inviting friends to the event, creating an internet sensation that led to thousands of RSVPs from strangers.
www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook
More than 10 million photos have been uploaded to the site to date.
http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/22/
In 2006, Yahoo offered Zuckerburg (owner of Facebook), $1 billion which he refused. In 2009, it was valued at $4 billion. Recently, it has been valued between $7.9 - $11 billion. However, current valuations of Facebook are upwards of $20 billion.
In 2004, Mark Zuckerburg and co-founders Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin launched Facebook from their Harvard dorm room.
www.facebakers.com
The average Facebook user is 38 years old (higher than what you would expect).
Facebook has become so popular, psychologists identified a new mental health disorder: Facebook Addiction Disorder.
www.fenichel.com/facebook
There are more than 150 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices and people that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
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