More Internet Information Sources About Facebook

• Wikipedia
  Facebook description in the Wikipedia, history, creation, growth, founders, users and other basic data.
  
  
• Twitter Facebook Page
  The Twitter Facebook Page, with 335,711 followers and in 11,584 lists, as of September 12, 2010. You can get updates from Facebook here.
  
  
• Facebook in Alexa
  According to Alexa, Facebook is one of the top ten websites in the world. Facebook.com has rank 2 in Alexa, Google.com has rank 1, YouTube.com has rank 3.
  
  
• PEW Research Center Publications
  Older Adults and Social Media. Social networking use among internet users ages 50 and older has nearly doubled, from 22% to 42% over the past year. While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools.
  
  
• Social Media Today
  Read the history of Facebook's evolution from a student website into a huge network spreading across the globe.
  
  
• Nielsen Wire Blog
  Statistics and trends in US Top Social Network Sites 2008, 2009, 2010 Year over Year Gains. Compared to user activity on social networking sites last year, Facebook and Twitter posted gains of 69% and 45% respectively in the U.S.
  
  

• Facebook Company Information
  Find out Facebook's mission, the history, the statistics, the culture, and the leadership.
  
  
• Social Bakers Analytics
  Find out what's happening at Facebook with fan pages, country Facebook preferences, and analytics from Social Bakers experts.
  
  
• 72% of Online Adults are Social Networking Site Users
  The Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project has been studying online adults' social networking site use since 2005, and has seen substantial growth since then. Today, 72% of online adults use social networking sites. Although younger adults continue to be the most likely social media users, one of the more striking stories about the social networking population has been the growth among older internet users in recent years. Those ages 65 and older have roughly tripled their presence on social networking sites, in just four years (2009 – 2013).
  
  
• Facebook Directory, Pages and Resources
  Facebook has just launched a new way to "Discover Facebook's Popular Pages" called Browser. It shows icons of Pages that are popular in a user's country, but factors in which Pages which are popular amongst their unique friend network. When the Page icons are hovered over they display a Like Button. Browser also shows a "Friends similar to you" leaderboard displaying with which friends you share the most mutual Likes. It's unclear how users can navigate to the utility other than through the URL.
  
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• ZYNGA
  Zynga is a Web 2.0-based social network game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace. Zynga games include: FarmVille, Mafia Wars, YoVille, FishVille, PetVille, Treasure Isle and Cafe World.
  
  
• OPEN COMPUTE PROJECT
  In mid-2011, a small team of Facebook engineers started tackling the big challenge of scaling the Facebook computing infrastructure in the most efficient and economical way possible. Working out of an electronics lab in the basement of the Palo Alto, California headquarters, the team designed the first FB data center from the ground up. A few months later Facebook started building it in Prineville, Oregon.
  
  
• SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE: 2005-2015
  Nearly two-thirds of American adults (65%) use social networking sites, up from 7% when Pew Research Center began systematically tracking social media usage in 2005.
  
  

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