12 Things That May Surprise You About Facebook

Facebook, according to Alexa.com, is the 2nd most visited site in Kenya and the most popular social website ahead of Twitter in Kenya. We’ve put together a couple of facts about Facebook which we think you might enjoy…

‎1. Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage

2. The longest name on Facebook is arguably ‘Everybodydonemoved Outthehoodwhoimpose Tobarrowsugarfromnow’

3. The average Facebook user has 130 friends

4. Mark Zuckerburg (CEO of Facebook) calls himself a “Harvard Graduate” when in fact he didn’t graduate (apparently his reply is that “there isn’t a setting for dropout”)

5. California is huge on Facebook with over 15 million users (41%of the population). Kenya, according to SocialBakers research, ranks no.71 in total number of Facebook users, averaging 1.3 million.

6. Australian’s spend more time per month on Facebook than any other country at over 7 hours on average

7. Facebook will cross the 1 billion user mark in August 2012

8. If Facebook were a country it would be the 3rd largest

9. The most Popular Facebook page in the world is Michael Jackson, and in Kenya it is Safaricom Ltd, with over 105,000 fans.

10. Monthly time spent on Facebook worldwide is 8.3 billion hours

11. Approximately 64% of Facebook users in Kenya are male, with the remaining 36% female.

12. In Australia court notices can be served through Facebook