The use of Facebook has became much more than just making friends. It has brought social networking to a while new level. Even enterprises and companies are starting to join this networking to increase their visibility and exposures. Here are 10 things you may not know about Facebook.
- Some time ago, Facebook quietly introduced an algorithm that throttles your updates so that no more than 16% of fans see your messages. This means that not all your Facebook fans are seeing all your updates.
- Reach Generator is a service available for premium managed accounts that makes it possible to regularly reach and engage up to 75% of your fans with meaningful content from your page and uses a fixed-fee price structure based on the number of fans your page has.
- The new Facebook Timeline went into effect on December 22, 2011.
- The size of the new Facebook Timeline Visual Strip at the top of your profile page is 850 x 315 pixels.
- Facebook originated from Harvard and was created by Mark Zuckerberg along with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
- Facemash was released October 28, 2003 as the predecessor to The Facebook.
- The domain name thefacebook.com wasn’t registered until January 11, 2004 and The Facebook site was launched February 4, 2004.
- The company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.
- It wasn’t until September 26, 2006 that Facebook was finally available to everyone age 13 and older with a valid email address.
- Mark Zuckerberg voiced himself on an episode of The Simpsons, “Loan-a Lisa”, which first aired on October 3, 2010.
