Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Mark Zuckerberg Does The Ice Bucket Challenge!

Mark Zuckerberg accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge! 
“Yesterday, Governor Chris Christie challenged me to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. I accepted his challenge, and now I’m challenging Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg and Reed Hastings next,”

Friday, June 7, 2013

Miley Cyrus Kicks Off Pride Month At Facebook Headquarters

While promoting her new single, “We Can’t Stop,” Miley Cyrus stopped by the Facebook Headquarters and checked in with LGBTQ@Facebook group. She even got a nifty gay@facebook t-shirt. Though, I have to admit, I’d like one of those.

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This is not the first time this singer has shown her pride. Cyrus recently got a pride tattoo and spoke out in support of gay marriage in the March issue of Glamor.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Happy Birthday Mark Zuckerberg, 29

10 fun facts about Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg


1. Zuckerberg suffers from red-green colorblindness and sees the color blue best, which is why blue dominates Facebook's color scheme.


2. AOL and Microsoft tried to recruit him when he was in high school after he created Synapse, a program that used artificial intelligence to learn users' music-listening habits.

3. He wears the same gray Facebook T-shirt almost every day because he's busy and it saves him time in the morning.



4. Despite Zuckerberg's casual wardrobe, he said he wore a tie every day in 2009 to show that Facebook was serious about growing in the face of the global recession.


5. He is a vegetarian and once said he will only eat meat if he has killed the animal himself. But among his "likes" on his Facebook page are McDonalds and In-N-Out Burger.



6. He has amassed 220,000 Twitter followers despite the fact that he's only tweeted 19 times in four years, and not once in 15 months.


7. In October 2010, Zuckerberg took a bunch of Facebook staffers to a public theater to see "The Social Network," the movie about the founding of Facebook. In public comments afterward, he criticized the film's portrayal of him as someone who invented Facebook to gain social status.

8. He owns a Hungarian sheepdog named Beast, who has a Facebook page with 1.5 million fans.

9. He took some heat last year for giving his wife, Priscilla Chan, a ruby wedding ring that jewelers valued at about $25,000 even though he was worth about $19 billion at the time.

10. If you type @[4:0] in a Facebook comment window and hit enter, his name will appear.



Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Guy Duplicates People's Facebook Pic Then Requests Friendship

Reddit user CasinoRoy looks For People on Facebook with the same name as his. Then duplicates their profile picture, down to everything he can add. He then sends them a friend request of their knockoff profile pic.

Pretty Creepy but very original.



Some are cool about it, but most seem to un-friend him shortly after.

FROM: http://www.buzzfeed.com

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

On Facebook, It's Now 4.74 Degrees of Separation

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks in September. New data suggests Facebook users are more connected than ever.

(CNN) -- In the Facebook age -- when digital "friends" are just a click away -- the distance between people seems to be shrinking, according to data the social network released on Monday night.

The adage maintains there are "six degrees of separation" between any two people on Earth, meaning that any two people would know each other through no more than six intermediary contacts.

On Facebook, however, the average user is only 4.74 degrees away from any other Facebooker.

"Thus, when considering even the most distant Facebook user in the Siberian tundra or the Peruvian rainforest, a friend of your friend probably knows a friend of their friend," Facebook wrote in a blog post about its findings.

That conclusion comes from a non-peer-reviewed study of 721 million active Facebook users, released by Facebook in collaboration with the Università degli Studi di Milano, the blog post says.

Facebook calls the analysis "the largest social network studies ever released."

The Palo Alto, California, company says 99.6% of all Facebook users studied were separated by five degrees or less from any other Facebook user; 92% were separated by only four degrees.

Furthermore, that distance appears to be shrinking quickly.

"The average distance in 2008 was 5.28 hops, while now it is 4.74," Facebook says.

While online Facebook friends are more likely to be linked to far-flung friends-of-friends, their immediate circles of contacts are remarkably homogenous in terms of age and geography.

"We observed that while the entire world is only a few degrees away, a user's friends are most likely to be of a similar age and come from the same country," the company writes.

Within the United States, for instance, users on average are linked by three intermediary contacts.

Facebook compares its work to that of 1960s social psychologist Stanley Milgram's experiments to prove that people are separated by only six contacts.
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