Trivia Today - Monday, February 10, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Show of hands - how many of you have an active Facebook (FB) account? Well, I have no idea if you raised your hand or not, but maybe you can take a picture of yourself doing so and post it on Facebook!

If you do use the world #1 social network, you should know that the site just recently celebrated its 10th birthday on February 4! In honor of this occasion, I have some interesting FB facts for you from thinkdigit.com. Happy birthday, Facebook!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society."

HINT: (1957-), American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation.


RANDOM TIDBITS
Ever wondered why the world's #1 social network is all dressed up in various shades of blue? It's because Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green color blindness, and is able to see the color blue best, according to a CNN article.

Legendary actor Al Pacino's face was on the homepage of the original Facebook that Zuckerberg built out of his Harvard dorm. The photo was only replaced as recently as 2007 (three years since its inception) when Facebook redesigned its homepage for good.

If you check Facebook's help center, it merely explains how a 'poke' works, but doesn't define exactly what it is. According to the book The Facebook Effect, Zuckerberg allegedly said this to a query on Facebook pokes: "We thought it would be fun to make a feature that has no specific purpose... So mess around with it, because you're not getting an explanation from us."

iStrategy Lab, a digital consultancy firm, released a report in January 2014 confirming the trend that Facebook is becoming less popular with "younger users." Facebook has over 4 million fewer high-school aged users and close to 7 million lesser college-aged users than it did back in 2011.

According to a Pew Research Center report, among people who use the internet but aren't on Facebook, 52 percent say that someone else in their family has a Facebook account. And 24 percent of such passive Facebook non-users who live with an account holder claim they look at photos or posts on that person's account.

According to research firm eMarketer, India is the second biggest market for Facebook with 84.9 million users (as of late 2013). Not surprisingly, the United States is the biggest market for the social network with 146.8 million users.


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society."

ANSWER: Scott Adams.

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