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67 unusual facts about Facebook


310 Motoring

310 Motoring sponsored the "Game's Big Game", a 2007 NCAA tournament pool, hosted on Facebook, where individuals competed to win a trip for two to the 2007 NCAA championship game.

Alpro

Alpro also encourage visitors to have their photo taken at the internet pod on the stand and upload it to Facebook, therefore joining the Alpro Soya Facebook page.

Angmering railway station

Tributes have been paid on her personal Facebook profile and her "RIP Megan" group, which has nearly 9,000 members.

Annabel Jarman

She received a minimal level of internet notoriety in 2008 after Michael Phelps mentioned her name on his Facebook page wall.

Ariane Friedrich

Controversy arose in 2012 when she named an alleged stalker on Facebook, potentially violating German privacy laws.

Ashley-Paul Robinson

Robinson then secured a trial with Premier League side Fulham, and marked a new era of football moving into the 21st century by announcing his plans to trial for the Cottagers on his profile on the social networking website Facebook.

Atlanta Rewound

The site was set up in May 2010 following the response from the Facebook page, in addition to the Birmingham Rewound and Huntsville Rewound sites.

Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party

The Victorian State Council was suspended by the party's executive in October 2013 over claims that it had set up a Facebook page without permission and had engaged in what ABC News reported as being labeled "illegal and unauthorised use of AMEP identification, confidential information, incorrect policy announcements, and the misuse of the party brand".

Barry O'Neill

Their January 2012 honeymoon in Europe attracted attention when controversial pictures of McCabe giving a Nazi salutes beside wax sculptures of Adolf Hitler and others were posted on Facebook.

Black and White America

Kravitz announced on his official Facebook page that "Come On Get It", used in a NBA commercial in late 2010, would be the album's first single.

Bøfsandwich

Fans of the bøfsandwich maintain a Facebook page which announces "Denmark's best bøfsandwich" each year.

Cade Foster

As a sophomore, he received negative attention after missing three long field goal attempts against LSU in a game Alabama lost in overtime, leading him to close his Facebook account.

Calloway's Nursery

Today, the company not only advertises in traditional mediums such as newspaper, radio, and television, but also distributes direct mail, places online ads, and participates in various media such as MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

Conchita Wurst

Four days after ORF announced its decision, more than 31,000 people liked an "Anti-Wurst" Facebook page.

Crowd computing

Major sites like Facebook and Twitter rely on the crowd to power the translation that spreads their service around the globe.

Dakssh Ajit Singh

Singh played a homosexual character who loves his partner Karan, received a number of gay friend requests on social networking site Facebook.

Environmental mega conferences

Rio+20 (to be held in 2012) has websites to which major groups and stakeholders can contribute and use to get involved in the preparatory process as well as links with Facebook and Twitter.

Finborough School

The case resurfaced in 2010, after former pupils had started a campaign on Facebook.

FK Mjølner

The club rose to fame in July 2012 when their players took a naked picture of themselves during a training camp and posted it on Facebook.

Florida Lottery

On January 12, 2013 the Florida Lottery celebrated 25 years in operation with a major rebranding campaign including a logo redesign and presence on social media, including Facebook and Twitter.

Flying Spaghetti Monster

On September 21, 2012, Pastafarian Giorgos Loizos was arrested in Greece on charges of malicious blasphemy and offense of religion for the creation of a satirical Facebook page called "Elder Pastitsios", based on a well-known deceased Greek Orthodox monk, Elder Paisios, where his name and face were substituted with pastitsio – a local pasta and béchamel sauce dish.

Gary Setchell

Setchell managed to bring in three of Long Buckby's key title winning players, in Richard Bunting (Now club captain) Russel Dunkly, and Dan Quigly (despite comments made on the social media site Facebook he settled in well, and was many fans player of the season.)

General Achievement Test

In 2009, a student-organised movement headed by Lucas Shipsides and Andrew Onorato and fuelled by Facebook brought the GAT to the attention of the national press, by suggesting that students make as many references to actor George Clooney as possible in their answers.

GI Forum

Their growing (international) fan base on Facebook has essentially surpassed that of other more established organizations (i.e. the American Gastroenterological Association), making GI Forum one of the fastest-growing GI (gastro-intestinal) communities on the web today.

Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

The candidate songs were released on 28 February 2012 through ERT's official Eurovision website, Facebook and Twitter pages, though the names of the artists and songwriters were concealed in order to place emphasis predominantly on the songs.

Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, 2014

Despite initially announcing his intention to run for Ward 3 councillor, Michael Baldasaro posted a picture to the social networking site Facebook indicating he will be seeking the office of mayor.

Helsingin Akatemia

The fan club holds a Facebook page informing about matches and happenings of the team.

Hullabalu

Hullabalu's $1.8M seed round is led by a list of top-tier angels and funds including SV Angel; Rothenberg Ventures; Liberty City Ventures; Great Oaks Venture Capital; Alexis Ohanian, Cofounder of Reddit; Garry Tan, Cofounder of Posterous and Partner at YC; Gokul Rajaram, Head of Ads at Facebook and Brian Sugar, Founder of Sugar.

Italian Week

At this stage Social Media, in particular Facebook, started to be used to promote events and businesses.

Jared Cohen

That would pay off handsomely some years later, when Twitter and Facebook became accelerants of democratic change in the Middle East.

Jennifer Stoddart

In 2008 she drew international headlines when she announced an investigation into the privacy policies of Facebook, which resulted in the social media site instituting privacy protections for its users.

Joe Lockhart

He subsequently founded and became managing director of the communications consulting firm Glover Park Group, a position he held until June 2011, when Facebook recruited him to become its company spokesman.

John Lefler

John also stated via Facebook that he would be booking an East Coast solo tour for the summer.

Jung Il-woo

He actively communicates with fans around the world through social networking websites like Twitter, Facebook, WeiBo and me2day.

Len Buckeridge

In September 2012, he sued a former fork-lift driver who allegedly posted defamatory comments on Facebook about him.

Love Attack!

The series was licensed for English language release in North America by Tokyopop but the publisher release via Facebook that "our time with Love Attack as ended(...)" making the series officially canceled in the U.S

Love in a Puff

Critics' reviews of Love in a Puff are generally positive, and the movie also received very positive feedbacks on Facebook and microblogging, causing a rebound in the box office.

Luning, Nevada

There is also an active page for the "ghost" town on Facebook, maintained by residents.

Malankara Church

These Peace Movements were initiated by Some JSOYA and OCYM members through Facebook which turned out to be a blessing for Malankara Church.

Malankara Church Peace Movement

These Peace Movements were initiated by Shinil Paul Mathews Thuruthummel, Eldhose Mathew Padickakudiyil,Johnson Jacob Koodathinalil, who are members of Youth Wings ofJacobite Syrian Christian Church and Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, through Facebook which turned out to be a blessing for Malankara Church.

March 2–3, 2012 tornado outbreak

Days after the outbreak, a New Pekin resident began helping others recover lost items through a Facebook page called "I Found Your Memory."

Mathilde-Amivi Petitjean

She was contacted by Togolese Ski Federation in March 2013 via Facebook to compete for the country at the Winter Olympics.

My Man Is a Loser

Step One of Many Entertainment plans a heavily digitally-media-oriented promotion strategy for the film, focused on Twitter and Facebook.

National Press Monument

It is promoted as a site for educational tourism through various exhibitions and Facebook, and in 2013 it was visited by over 26,000 people.

In order to attract new visitors, the museum has initiated several competitions in 2012 and 2013, including a photography contest on the museum's Facebook page.

NB Power

On Facebook, 14,000 people joined a group in opposition to the sale within five days of the announcement.

Nick in the Afternoon

The character has been updated for modern times, with a vocabulary that not only makes frequent reference to modern amenities such as Facebook, flat screen TVs and Jersey Shore, but also has been updated with a more adult sense of humor to reflect the older late-night audience.

Noemí Rubio

This stage ended abruptly in May 2009 as she uploaded to her Facebook account photos which showed her supporting Espanyol's rival FC Barcelona at the 2008-09 Copa del Rey final in Valencia.

Peace of Mind Campaign

This message can then be posted to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter and Bebo.

Purple People

The group originated in October 2009 when a group of bloggers organised demonstrations using word of mouth, Twitter and Facebook, culminating in No Berlusconi Day on 5 December 2009.

Real Sangria

Reál Sangria also has an ongoing social networking campaign on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.

Ryan Stig

In October 2013, Stig became embroiled in controversy when he made homophobic public comments on Facebook and Twitter disparaging gay marriage.

Seán Gallagher

Out of the election candidates, he had the highest number of followers on Facebook and second highest on Twitter.

Seven Days in the Sun

Nine years since the video was shot, Feeder released via their Facebook page previously unreleased behind-the-scenes footage.

Southern Railway 4501

On January 8, 2014, Norfolk Southern announced on their Facebook page (by sharing a picture that was posted by the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum) that 4501 passed its FRA hydro test, and that all of its wheels were placed back underneath it.

Suicide among LGBT youth

Cyber bullying involves abusive text messages or messages of the same nature on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks.

Takeo, Saga

In 2011, the city government was the first in Japan to switch to using Facebook for its website.

Terrorism and social media

Due to the convenience, affordability and broad reach of social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, terrorist groups have increasingly used social media to further their goals and spread their message.

The Backseat Boyz

On June 18, 2010, it was announced by Kashmere on his Facebook that Trent Acid died.

Their Hearts Caught Fire

A group was set up on Facebook, and Trig.com also featured a page for the Hearts project.

Twig the Fairy

Twig has appeared twice on the cover of the nationally-published Faerie Magazine and has more than 240,000 followers on Facebook.

Uritorco

In 2012, the mountain was closed on December 21st, as a mass suicide had been proposed on Facebook to take place there due to the 2012 phenomenon.

Use of social media in the Wisconsin protests

The group called "Wisconsin Students for Solidarity" organized a national student walkout via a Facebook page to take place on March 11.

Valladares

Despite this the extended family retains a close association and continues to share a family identity through blogs, networking sites such as Facebook and traditional means of communication.

White House Communications Director

With the growing importance of the Internet and New Media in terms of Presidential communication, the Office of Communications is having to branch out, and this have been given an added impetus by the election of Barack Obama who made large use of the internet, and more specifically social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, to reach out to his supporters in order to solicit donations and spread his campaign message.

WQKL

Martin Bandyke was let go from WQKL in February 2009 due to budget cuts but, in a surprising move given the current radio climate, was rehired a few weeks later due to immense negative outcry from listeners (who even started a protest group on the social networking website Facebook) and advertisers.

Zampa the Lion

Zampa is one of the only mascots in the Football League to run his own Facebook page, and regularly interacts with Junior Lions and other fans.


Accel Partners

Since 1983, Accel invested in over 300 companies, including Facebook, Groupon, GetJar, Cloudera, AdMob, Dropbox, Trivone, 99designs, Glam Media, Spotify, Etsy, Angry Birds (Rovio), Braintree, Lookout, SunRun, TRUSTe, Kayak, Supercell, Macromedia, Medio, metroPCS, Code 42 Software, Flipkart and Walmart.com.

Adrian von Ziegler

Although Adrian says he makes lots of different music styles, he focuses mainly on Celtic music, Emotional, Relaxing, Dark Alternative music, World music, Metal music, and on Film Music, according to his Facebook fanpage.

Alive Till I'm Dead

Green spoke about how the collaboration came about between him and Lily Allen, stating that the pair got speaking through Facebook.

Andrew McCutchen

McCutchen gathered 108,147 votes in a week of fan voting via Twitter and Facebook, while New York Yankees' pitcher, CC Sabathia, came in second place with 89,054 votes.

Appletini

In the 2010 film The Social Network, in the initial meeting between Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin and Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Parker buys the table a few rounds of the drink.

Basking in reflected glory

Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites have increased BIRGing with popular brands, as it allows everyone to post their affinity for or their associations with popular companies, media, businesses, etc.

Bleeding Oath

They have gained notoriety for their large Facebook campaigns, as well as their irreverent attitude and self-deprecating humour, as evidenced by the group and its fans getting artists from various major groups, including Andrew W.K., DragonForce, Jason Aalon Butler of letlive. and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth (who the band are heavily influenced by) to tell them, in jest, to "fuck off".

Burma Global Action Network

Major figureheads such as Whoopi Goldberg of ABC’s The View, Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Facebook, James K. Glassman, Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Oscar Morales, Founder, One Million Voices Against the FARC, Luke Russert, MSNBC, Matthew Waxman, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School.

Censorship of Facebook

In November 2012, Tajikistan blocked access to Facebook in response to comments posted online, spreading “mud and slander” about President Emomalii Rahmon and various other officials.

Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies

The network exists virtually using the Facebook and Twitter platforms as well as a privately owned web site to communicate and assist its supporters.

Content curation

The technology of curation can also allow for the creation of online newspapers or magazines (see paper.li or scoop.it) or pages like Storify, which lets the user create stories or timelines using social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Divya Narendra

One of ConnectU's law firms, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, disclosed the confidential settlement amount in marketing material by printing "WON $65 million settlement against Facebook".

Fitzrovia News

Like many hyperlocal media the Fitzrovia News makes extensive use of freely available digital media: blog software Wordpress and social media Twitter, Facebook; location-based social-networking Foursquare; and visual media Flickr and YouTube.

Francisco X. Alarcón

In response to a group of students chaining themselves to the Arizona State Capitol on April 20, 2010, to protest the anti-immigrant legislation Arizona SB 1070, Alarcón penned the poem "For the Capitol Nine" and posted it to his Facebook page.

Intervention Canada

On February 9, 2012 Slice had announced on their Facebook that the show is cancelled.

Klaus Hommels

He has been involved in successful internet investments such as Skype, Facebook and Xing.

Kyle Dube

According to the Maine State Police, Dube created a Facebook account under the name of 'Bryan Butterfield,' an acquaintance of both Dube and Cable.

KZNS-FM

This protest was met with overwhelmingly positive response from listeners, and the station received thousands of supportive phone calls, song requests, e-mails, and Facebook messages.

Learned society

Members of these online academic communities, grouped by areas of interests, use for their communication shared and dedicated listservs (for example JISCMail), social networking services (like Facebook, Linkedin) and academic oriented social networks (like Mendeley, Academia.edu).

Lee Merrien

He has been named to the British team for the 2012 Summer Olympics following a Facebook campaign after he was initially not selected to the team.

Letters to Kurt

Letters to Kurt was announced for release in December 2011 on Erlandson's Facebook profile.

Lisa Foiles

In 2013, Foiles recently guest starred in the fifth podcast of the Re-Open Nickelodeon Studios Facebook Page and YouTube channel with three administrators from the channel.

Loveland Chamber of Commerce

The Loveland Chamber actively uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to start conversations and inform investors about events, business trends, legislative affairs and community news.

My Rainbow Race

The performance was inspired by Facebook reactions after Breivik claimed in his trial testimony that the song was an example of Marxist propaganda and that it was being used to "brainwash" Norwegian children.

Naomi Baron

She is also interested in language use in the computer age, instant messaging, text messaging, mobile phone practices, cross-cultural research on mobile phones, Human multitasking behavior, and Facebook online social interaction usage by American college students.

Nick Riewoldt

On 20 December 2010 a photo with a nude image of Riewoldt was posted on the social networking site Facebook by a 17-year old girl.

Pi in the Sky

The planes deliberately flew over the headquarters of NASA Ames, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple.

Rutherford County, North Carolina

In 2010, Rutherford County was selected as the location for a new $450 million data center for Facebook.

Samsung GT-B7330

From this device's default home screen, the user can check the weather, play songs, update CNN headlines, view photos, configure device settings, and go to social-networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, and YouTube.

Social data revolution

The job market is even being shaped by the information people share about themselves on sites like LinkedIn and Facebook.

Ted Lawson

In 2011, he started a large-scale sculpture collaboration with artist Fernando Mastrangelo, commissioned by Napster and Facebook founder, Sean Parker under the name, MLHQ Studio.

Teeshirtsdirect.com

teeshirtsdirect.com makes significant use of social networking sites in their advertising, with facebook, Twitter and myspace playing extensive roles in this strategy.

The Dykeenies

The band announced on 18 July 2011 via their Myspace and Facebook accounts that their new album 'Canyon of Echoes' will be released on 3 October 2011.

The Janoskians

The Janoskians have achieved teenage pop fandom with several social networking services, such as their Facebook, Twitter and Keek pages, and even fanfiction.

Tin Pei Ling

On 1 June 2011, Tin announced on her Facebook account that she had resigned from her Senior Associate position in Ernst & Young, where she had worked for four years.

WeeMee

A WeeMee is an avatar, it can be exported to Facebook, Twitter and e-mail.

Willie Isa

Despite popularity on Facebook, no fans rioted when Isa scored his first (and second) Widnes try against Hull FC in a 42-16 win.

Winnebago language

So far, he’s worked up a language quiz game based on the show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?} and has been using Facebook and YouTube videos to get young people engaged. "The world is moving so fast with technology, and our youth are the ones who are going to carry the language on,” he said.