Facebook touches the 2 Billion Mark for Active Users, Here’s all you Need to Know!

Facebook touches the 2 Billion Mark for Active Users, Here’s all you Need to Know!
Facebook touches the 2 Billion Mark for Active Users, Here’s all you Need to Know!

The global social media giant has set another landmark, which is yet to be surpassed by others. Yes, you’re right! We’re talking about the latest achievement of Mark Zuckerberg’s brainchild—Facebook. Within a span of just five years, the world’s most famous social network roped in nearly 2 billion active monthly users. As expected, Team Facebook devised an innovative way to thank its family. Their latest endeavor ‘all good adds up’ reminds you of beautiful memories that you’ve made online, through a short, swift video clip. Besides this, the CEO and Co-founder of this multimillion social network thanked the users for being an incredible part of their journey.

On this occasion, let’s remind you of how amazing Facebook is. Here are 10 facts that make it all the more amazing!

Interesting facts about Facebook.
Interesting facts about Facebook.
  1. Back in 2004, Facebook was started as a hostel project by a group of hostellers, including Zuckerberg, who uses target-based strategies to market the website worldwide.
  2. If you start counting the number of users on Facebook, you’ll realize that it’s more than the population of one country. People from six different continents use Facebook today.
  3. Canada, US, and the European countries contribute the maximum share in the Facebook user base. There are nearly 38% Facebook users from these countries.
  4. If the Facebook analysts are to be believed, on an average, nearly 800 million people like posts on Facebook and 175 million people ‘love’ a post!
  5. Over the years, the company used different tactics to increase penetration rates in the developing nations. They’ve developed solar-powered drones for global connectivity and pared-down app that utilizes minimal data.
  6. Last year, Facebook declared February 4, 2016, as “Friend’s Day” to commemorate its 12th birthday celebrations. Knowing that most people use Facebook to form new friendships, therefore, they included a special “Friend’s day video” on the user news feed. The video montage displayed spectacular, personalized Facebook memories of all users.
  7. Acquiring Oculus VR in 2014, Facebook became the first website to introduce 360-degree videos. The feature was launched in September 2015 that allowed the website to view scrollable breathtaking views by rotating cursors along the photographs.

    Meet Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and Co-owner of Facebook.
    Meet Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and Co-owner of Facebook.
  8. Have you ever wondered that why is Facebook so white-and-blue? It’s because of Zuckerberg’s color blindness. Since the CEO suffers from red-green color blindness, blue and white work just fine for him.
  9. “Poke” is probably the most irritating feature of Facebook. It allows you to ‘poke’ a user to get his attention. According to recordsetter.com, Singapore’s Yan D was the most poked user on Facebook. Yan has received nearly 1,000,069 pokes on his profile.
  10. Did you know who the most famous celebrity is and what is the most ‘liked’ post on Facebook? Well, until 2014, Colombian singer Shakira was the most-liked celebrity (104,415,432) until she was overpowered by Christiano Ronaldo, who accumulated 109,243,536 likes on the site.Similarly, President Obama’s photo is one of the ‘most liked photos’ (4,410,548 likes) on the website. The photographer features the first lady embracing the president after he was re-elected as the president for the second time. The photo is accompanied with the caption “Four more years”.

So, these were some fun Facebook facts that we bet you didn’t know! Stay tuned for more Facebook updates.

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