Let’s get social !!NPCC Faculty/Staff – August 17, 2009

facebook factsLaunched February 4, 2004 – exclusively for Harvard StudentsIdea came from a physical paper book passed around at creator Mark Zuckerberg’s high schoolYahoo attempted to buy Facebook in 2006 for $1,000,000,000Fall 2007 – over 1 million new users signed up every week

facebook facts11% of users are over the age of 35the “over-30” group is the fastest growing demographic of usersFB is the 6th most trafficked site in the USUsers spend an average of 19 minutes a day5th most valuable US Internet Company (worth over $15 billion) – yet with only $150 million in annual revenueSource: www.crunchbase.com

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