of friends on Facebook is 130, and women tend to have somewhat more
than men. Yet despite having hundreds of friends, most people only
interact regularly with 4 to 7 people.
Over 25% of users have already been dumped via Facebook
A June 2010 survey of 1,000 Facebook users -- 70% of whom were male --
found that 25% had been "dumped" via Facebook (via their significant
other updating his or her relationship status).
Twenty-one percent of those surveyed said they would
end a relationship by changing their Facebook relationship statuses to "
single." While worrisome, the survey does show the majority of people do not split up via Facebook.
Facebook doesn't allow breastfeeding photos
Facebook, the
popular social networking website,
provoked a squall of maternal wrath when it yanked photos of
breastfeeding babies that women had posted on their personal profiles
because it deemed them a little too revealing. This, by the way, from a
website that allows photos of women in thongs and bikinis and of couples
making out; it has even accepted paid
advertising for
a dating website that featured a topless model. (The topless ad was taken down after angry women noted the hypocrisy.)
In
response to the terse notices alerting mothers that they were violating
Facebook's decency policy, "lactivists" responded with a virtual
nurse-in; 11,000 women posted photos of themselves breastfeeding and/or
updated their profiles to read: "Hey, Facebook. Breastfeeding Is Not
Obscene!"
The pro-breastfeeding group has attracted over 250,000 members.
(Link 1 | Link 2)
Facebook causes 1 in 5 Divorces
It used to be the tell-tale lipstick on the collar. Then there were the
give-away texts that spelled the death knell for many marriages. But now
one in five divorces involve the social networking site Facebook,
according to a
new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
A staggering 80 per cent of divorce lawyers have also reported a spike in the number of cases that use social media for evidence of cheating.
(Link)
Al Pacino was the first ‘face' on Facebook
Remember that sad-looking blue guy on Facebook's homepage who used to
stare you down every time you went to log in? They did away with him in
2007, so if you were late to the social networking party, then you
probably have absolutely no idea what we're talking about. Anyway
according to David Kirkpatrick's The Facebook Effect , it turns out that
that guy in the logo, created by Zuckerberg's friend and classmate
Andrew McCollum, was none other than a young Al Pacino “covered with a
fog of ones and zeros — the elementary components of digital media.”
Crazy, right?
(Link)
36% of users check Facebook, Twitter or texts after sex
Lighting a cigarette after sex? That's soooo last season.
An
October 2009 study by Retrevo suggested that social networks are
becoming an increasingly important part of young people's lives. Among
under-35s, 36% admitted to "tweeting, texting and checking Facebook
after sex." Forty percent of respondents admitted to doing so while
driving, 64% said they do so at work, and 65% use these communication
channels while on vacation.
(Link)
Over 350million people suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder
Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) is a term introduced by US
phychologists for those who are addicted to Facebook and their life is
really affected by their uncontrolled activities on Facebook. The most
common effects are the loss of productivity, the inability to
concentrate, the superficiality of friendships as well as isolation in
the extreme cases.
It has been said that approximately 350 million people are suffering from the disorder.
(Link)
Facebook users have lower grades than non-users
According to a new study by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of
Ohio State University and her co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican
University,
college students who use the 800 million–member social network have
significantly lower grade-point averages (GPAs) than those who do not.
The study, made in 2009, surveyed 219
undergraduate
and graduate students and found that GPAs of Facebook users typically
ranged a full grade point lower than those of nonusers — 3.0 to 3.5 for
users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers. It also found
that 79% of Facebook members did not believe there was any link between
their GPA and their networking habits.
(Link)
Burger King gave away free burgers to users who unfriended people on Facebook
In January 2009, an advertising campaign from Burger King titled
“WHOPPER Sacrifice” rewarded Facebook users a free “Angry Whopper” for
publicly deleting 10 friends, who would then receive a blunt message
informing they were deleted for a free hamburger. The campaign,
conceived by Burger King agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky and executed by
Refresh Partners, used the tag line “Friendship Is Strong, but The
Whopper Is Stronger.”
At press time the
application had been downloaded more than 55,000 times and over 250,000 ‘friends' were sacrificed.
(Link)
A man was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook
On perhaps one of the worst crimes perpetrated in Facebook, a
Pennsylvania father was arrested for allegedly asking his teen daughter
for sex over Facebook. John Forehand, 39, referred to himself as "Bad
Daddy" in the online correspondence with his 13 year-old daughter, in
which he openly propositioned her and made explicit sexual suggestions.
Forehand told his daughter he had been having "inappropriate" dreams
about her, and wrote to her, "I'll take very good care of my little
girl."
The girl told her mother about the inappropriate Facebook
messages, and she then alerted the police. The police captured Forehand
by tricking him into coming to what he believed would be a meeting with
his daughter. How sick is that?
(Link)
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The average user has 130 friends
