1. The average user has 130 friends
Are you worried about your popularity? The average number of friends on Facebook is 130, and women tend to have somewhat more than men. Yet despite having hundreds of friends, most people only interact regularly with 4 to 7 people.
2. Over 25% of users have already been dumped via Facebook
A June 2010 survey of 1,000 Facebook users -- 70% of whom were male -- found that 25% had been "dumped" via Facebook (via their significant other updating his or her relationship status).
Twenty-one percent of those surveyed said they would end a relationship by changing their Facebook relationship statuses to "single." While worrisome, the survey does show the majority of people do not split up via Facebook.
3.Facebook doesn't allow breastfeeding photos
Facebook, the popular social networking website, provoked a squall of maternal wrath when it yanked photos of breastfeeding babies that women had posted on their personal profiles because it deemed them a little too revealing. This, by the way, from a website that allows photos of women in thongs and bikinis and of couples making out; it has even accepted paid advertising for a dating website that featured a topless model. (The topless ad was taken down after angry women noted the hypocrisy.)
4. Facebook causes 1 in 5 Divorces
It used to be the tell-tale lipstick on the collar. Then there were the give-away texts that spelled the death knell for many marriages. But now one in five divorces involve the social networking site Facebook, according to a new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
5. 36% of users check Facebook, Twitter or texts after sex.
Lighting a cigarette after sex? That's soooo last season.
An October 2009 study by Retrevo suggested that social networks are becoming an increasingly important part of young people's lives. Among under-35s, 36% admitted to "tweeting, texting and checking Facebook after sex." Forty percent of respondents admitted to doing so while driving, 64% said they do so at work, and 65% use these communication channels while on vacation.
6. Over 350 million people suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder.
Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) is a term introduced by US psychologists for those who are addicted to Facebook and their life is really affected by their uncontrolled activities on Facebook. The most common effects are the loss of productivity, the inability to concentrate, the superficiality of friendships as well as isolation in the extreme cases.
It has been said that approximately 350 million people are suffering from the disorder.
7.Facebook users have lower grades than non-users
According to a new study by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University, college students who use the 800 million–member social network have significantly lower grade-point averages (GPAs) than those who do not.
The study, made in 2009, surveyed 219 undergraduate and graduate students and found that GPAs of Facebook users typically ranged a full grade point lower than those of nonusers — 3.0 to 3.5 for users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers. It also found that 79% of Facebook members did not believe there was any link between their GPA and their networking habits.
8.A man was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook.
On perhaps one of the worst crimes perpetrated in Facebook, a Pennsylvania father was arrested for allegedly asking his teen daughter for sex over Facebook. John Forehand, 39, referred to himself as "Bad Daddy" in the online correspondence with his 13 year-old daughter, in which he openly propositioned her and made explicit sexual suggestions. Forehand told his daughter he had been having "inappropriate" dreams about her, and wrote to her, "I'll take very good care of my little girl."
The girl told her mother about the inappropriate Facebook messages, and she then alerted the police. The police captured Forehand by tricking him into coming to what he believed would be a meeting with his daughter. How sick is that?
9. An average facebook user spend 13.5 minutes on the site everyday.
10. A Cincinnati photographer, Mark Byron, abused his wife verbally on his Facebook page. He was later ordered by the court to either go to jail or write an apology on his Facebook wall.
7/8/13
15 Interesting facts about Mahatma Gandhi
1. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of india
during the Indian independence movement
2. Mahatma Gandhi went to England when he was 19 to study law.
3. Gandhi is officially honoured in India as the Father of the
Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi
Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International
Day of Non-Violence.
4. Mahatma literally translates to ‘great soul’ in Sanskrit.
5. Time Magazine, the famous U.S. publication, named Mahatma
Gandhi the Man of the Year in 1930.
6. In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi led hundreds of followers on a 240-mile
march to the sea, where they made salt from seawater in protest
against the British salt law, which made it illegal to possess
salt not bought from the government.
7. Mahatma Gandhi experimented with diets to see how cheaply he
could live and remain healthy. He started living principally on
fruit and goats’ milk and olive oil.
8. Mahatma Gandhi spoke English with an Irish accent, for one of
his first teachers was an Irishman.
9. On 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was shot and killed on the
grounds of the Birla Bhavan (Birla House) in New Delhi.
10. Gandhi’s policy of Satyagraha, based largely on Hinduism, was
influenced by many diverse sources, including Christ, Leo
Tolstoy, and Henry David Thoreau.
11. When he was a child, he was afraid of the dark.
12. He was married when he was 13 years old to Kasturbai Makanji.
13. He had a Law Office in South Africa.
14. He influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and millions of other people.
15. He spent most of his time fighting for the independence of India. He led the Salt March to protest against the British.
during the Indian independence movement
2. Mahatma Gandhi went to England when he was 19 to study law.
3. Gandhi is officially honoured in India as the Father of the
Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi
Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International
Day of Non-Violence.
4. Mahatma literally translates to ‘great soul’ in Sanskrit.
5. Time Magazine, the famous U.S. publication, named Mahatma
Gandhi the Man of the Year in 1930.
6. In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi led hundreds of followers on a 240-mile
march to the sea, where they made salt from seawater in protest
against the British salt law, which made it illegal to possess
salt not bought from the government.
7. Mahatma Gandhi experimented with diets to see how cheaply he
could live and remain healthy. He started living principally on
fruit and goats’ milk and olive oil.
8. Mahatma Gandhi spoke English with an Irish accent, for one of
his first teachers was an Irishman.
9. On 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was shot and killed on the
grounds of the Birla Bhavan (Birla House) in New Delhi.
10. Gandhi’s policy of Satyagraha, based largely on Hinduism, was
influenced by many diverse sources, including Christ, Leo
Tolstoy, and Henry David Thoreau.
11. When he was a child, he was afraid of the dark.
12. He was married when he was 13 years old to Kasturbai Makanji.
13. He had a Law Office in South Africa.
14. He influenced Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and millions of other people.
15. He spent most of his time fighting for the independence of India. He led the Salt March to protest against the British.
15 Awesome facts about Mother Teresa
1. She was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Albania, to a financially comfortable family – they lived in one of the two houses they owned. Her father died when she was 8 years old, which ended her family’s financial security.
2. Although she lived to be 87 years old, she never saw her mother or sister again after the day she left for Ireland.
3. After a year learning English in Ireland, Agnes transferred to the Sisters of Loreto convent in Darjeeling, India.
4. Teresa began teaching history and geography in Calcutta at St. Mary’s, a high school for the daughters of the wealthy. She remained there for 15 years and enjoyed the work, but was distressed by the poverty she saw all around her.
5. In 1946, Teresa traveled to Darjeeling for a retreat. It was on that journey that she realized what her true calling was: “I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve him among the poorest of the poor.”
6. It took two years of preparation before she was able to begin doing the work she felt compelled to do. She needed to receive permission from the Sisters of Loreto to leave the order – while retaining her vows – as well as permission from the Archbishop of Calcutta to live and work among the poor. She also prepared by taking a nursing course.
7. In 1948, Teresa set aside her nun’s habit – adopting instead the simple sari and sandals worn by the women she would be living among – and moved to a small rented hovel in the slums to begin her work.
8. Teresa’s first year in the slums was particularly hard. She was used to a life of comparative comfort, and now she had no income and no way to obtain food and supplies other than begging. She was often tempted to return to convent life, and had to rely on her determination and faith to get herself through it.
9. One of her first projects was to teach the children of the poor – drawing on her experience with teaching the children of the rich. She didn’t have any equipment or supplies this time, but she taught them to read and write by writing in the dirt with sticks.
10. Word began to spread about Teresa’s good works, and soon she had other volunteers wanting to help. By 1950, she was able to start the Mission of Charity – a congregation dedicated to caring for “the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.”
11. Mother Teresa was honored with many awards throughout her life, from the Indian Padma Shri in 1962 to the inaugural Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971 to Albania’s Golden Honour of the Nation in 1994…and, most famously, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
12. She refused the traditional Nobel honor banquet, instead requesting that the $192K funds be given to help the poor of India.
13. She continued her work with the poor for the rest of her life, leading the Missionaries of Charity until just months before her death on September 5, 1997.
14. The Catholic Church has begun to move Mother Teresa along the steps toward sainthood, and she was beatified in 2003. Her official title is now Blessed
15. She took her vows as a nun in 1931, and that’s when she chose the name Teresa – to honor Saints Therese of Lisieux and Teresa of Avila.
2. Although she lived to be 87 years old, she never saw her mother or sister again after the day she left for Ireland.
3. After a year learning English in Ireland, Agnes transferred to the Sisters of Loreto convent in Darjeeling, India.
4. Teresa began teaching history and geography in Calcutta at St. Mary’s, a high school for the daughters of the wealthy. She remained there for 15 years and enjoyed the work, but was distressed by the poverty she saw all around her.
5. In 1946, Teresa traveled to Darjeeling for a retreat. It was on that journey that she realized what her true calling was: “I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve him among the poorest of the poor.”
6. It took two years of preparation before she was able to begin doing the work she felt compelled to do. She needed to receive permission from the Sisters of Loreto to leave the order – while retaining her vows – as well as permission from the Archbishop of Calcutta to live and work among the poor. She also prepared by taking a nursing course.
7. In 1948, Teresa set aside her nun’s habit – adopting instead the simple sari and sandals worn by the women she would be living among – and moved to a small rented hovel in the slums to begin her work.
8. Teresa’s first year in the slums was particularly hard. She was used to a life of comparative comfort, and now she had no income and no way to obtain food and supplies other than begging. She was often tempted to return to convent life, and had to rely on her determination and faith to get herself through it.
9. One of her first projects was to teach the children of the poor – drawing on her experience with teaching the children of the rich. She didn’t have any equipment or supplies this time, but she taught them to read and write by writing in the dirt with sticks.
10. Word began to spread about Teresa’s good works, and soon she had other volunteers wanting to help. By 1950, she was able to start the Mission of Charity – a congregation dedicated to caring for “the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.”
11. Mother Teresa was honored with many awards throughout her life, from the Indian Padma Shri in 1962 to the inaugural Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971 to Albania’s Golden Honour of the Nation in 1994…and, most famously, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
12. She refused the traditional Nobel honor banquet, instead requesting that the $192K funds be given to help the poor of India.
13. She continued her work with the poor for the rest of her life, leading the Missionaries of Charity until just months before her death on September 5, 1997.
14. The Catholic Church has begun to move Mother Teresa along the steps toward sainthood, and she was beatified in 2003. Her official title is now Blessed
15. She took her vows as a nun in 1931, and that’s when she chose the name Teresa – to honor Saints Therese of Lisieux and Teresa of Avila.
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