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69 unusual facts about Facebook


2013 New Brunswick python attack

The owner of the python and the mother of the two brothers had Facebook accounts that reporters used to obtain pictures.

Abu Basir al-Tartusi

Abu Basir was strongly supportive of opposition to the Syrian regime, during the Syrian civil war he established a Facebook page called al-Mu’arada al-islamiya lil-nizam al-souri (Islamic Opposition to the Regime in Syria) and in May 2012 he appeared in an online video clip alongside armed rebels, implying he was taking part in fighting inside Syria.

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.

Annabel Jarman

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

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.

Big Gay Ice Cream Truck

The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck has made use of social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook to connect directly with their clientele rather than through traditional means of advertising.

Brian Dawkins

After Dawkins signed with the Broncos in 2009, Dan Leone, an Eagles employee who was a gate chief at Lincoln Financial Field was fired by the Eagles after Leone posted messages on his Facebook page expressing his disappointment in the team.

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.

Carli de Murga

Through the social networking website Facebook, he was able to contact Guirado, together with his relatives, and was able to secure his requirements for him to suit up for the national team.

Dentsu

In March 2011, Dentsu formed an official partnership with Facebook Inc.

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.

Facebook, Inc. v. StudiVZ Ltd.

Facebook, Inc. operates a social networking website, that was originally founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 while he was a student at Harvard University.

Finborough School

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

Fingers in the Noise

He began devoting his free time towards musical composition, and has published some of his releases on websites like SoundCloud, MySpace, and 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.

Forest City, North Carolina

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

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.)

Gregory Krumbock

Gregory Krumbock has been noted as one of the top 25 politicians to follow on Facebook and Twitter.

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.

Herman Li

On 9 May 2010, Li announced via Facebook that he had received a custom-made Ibanez 7-string guitar.

Hospital to Alta

The party was based on a Facebook group which gradually developed into a party list for the election.

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.

Humsafar

The Humsafar page on Facebook reveals thousands of European and North American fans and viewers, with many saying they've never watched a Pakistani drama but are completely hooked on Humsafar.

ICICI Bank

They can also share their wishes on Facebook and let their friends and family be a part of their dreams by contributing to their account from any bank account.

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.

Jeremy Fogel

On October 29, 2009, Fogel awarded the Palo Alto, California-based social networking website Facebook $711 million in damages in a civil suit that Facebook filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, whom Facebook accused of using the website to send spam to and steal personal information from website 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.

Joseph Eve, Certified Public Accountants

In August 2012, Joseph Eve partner Grant Eve and Consultant Ehren Richardson was chosen to speak before the National Indian Gaming Association Subcommittee on Internet gaming, in which he stressed that "Internet Gaming is here"; and pointed out facts such as Facebook UK launching iGaming slots and MGM Resorts launching MyVegas on Facebook.

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.

Len Buckeridge

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

Letters to Kurt

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

Lifted Off the Ground

After nearly a two-year hiatus, Wright resurfaced through social networking sites including MySpace, Facebook and YouTube.

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.

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.

Manoto 1

As of April 2013, Manoto has had nearly 1.25 million likes on Facebook, twice as many as the BBC’s Persian.

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.

MHITS

The current promotion "Next Coffee Free," began in early April 2009 and coincided with a Facebook advertising campaign in an effort to gain further brand awareness.

Miss Willie Brown

On April 16, 2013, the duo announced on their Facebook page that they were dissolving the group with Watkins pursuing a solo career and Buckley taking a break from music.

Motorcycle lane

On 24 April 2013, a video of the poor conditions of the Federal Highway was uploaded to Facebook and went viral throughout blogs and other Facebook pages, including the Ministry of Work's own Facebook page.

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.

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.

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.

NB Power

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

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.

Obermutten

In Autumn 2011, Obermutten has received worldwide media attention due to its unusual promise on the social-media platform Facebook.

Pakeha Party

The party began as a Facebook group in June 2013 and is currently considering seeking registration with the Electoral Commission as a political party.

Panopticism

The second argument concerns surveillance redundance, and it is increasingly relevant in the age of Facebook and online self-disclosure.

Parallax Studio

On March 10, 2012, Parallax Studio announced via Facebook starting pre-production on a full-length fantasy film Everything set for completion in 2014.

Rhetorical circulation

However, a photo might be snapped of a typo on the front page, and posted to Facebook: this is circulation.

Rocket Club

The song got viral exposure via Facebook and YouTube, as well as airplay on Minneapolis radio station KEEY-FM.

Ryan Stig

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

Seven Days in the Sun

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

Shoplifting 4 Jesus

Marsh left the band in late 2010 for unknown reasons, although his departure is not definite as he still contributes to Alabama 3's Facebook page and is working on solo projects with L.B. Dope and Devlin Love, who herself is absent from this album.

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.

Syed Ali Shah Geelani

In November 2011, Geelani called for peaceful protests against the alleged "objectionable anti-Islamic" content on the social networking website Facebook, which he described as a "satanic audacity".

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.

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.

Total Music

Total Music was then conceived as a streaming service to be incorporated into social networking sites—particularly Facebook—in a model similar to what was already in place through agreements between the record companies and MySpace: in exchange for user data and advertising revenue, Total Music would grant the social network a license to use the participating labels' music.

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.

Ulf Erik Knudsen

In January 2010, Knudsen was reported to use the Muhammad cartoon drawn by Kurt Westergaard as his profile picture on Facebook.

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.

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.

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.


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.

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.

Ariane Friedrich

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

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.

Brandjacking

Colleges and Universities - In 2008, college guidebook company College Prowler created hundreds of Facebook groups purporting to consist of actual incoming first-year students of various universities in order to surreptitiously gather their personal data and promote the business.

Claire Diaz Ortiz

Her graduating class produced a number of tech entrepreneurs, including Joe Lonsdale, Chris Cox, Clara Shih of Hearsay Social, Ramit Sethi and Jared Cohen.

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.

Conversocial

Companies and organizations such as Barclaycard, GoDaddy, American Greetings, Groupon, Hertz, Ogilvy, Sephora, Tesco, University of Phoenix, Tupperware, Waitrose, and JackThreads use Conversocial's Software as a Service to manage the flow of customer service enquiries and discussions on Facebook and Twitter.

Crowd computing

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

Elmer the elm tree

You can learn more about Elmer at his website and Facebook pages.

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.

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.

Jung Il-woo

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

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).

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.

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.

Manoto 1

It has outstripped its closest rivals, BBC Persian, Farsi 1, GEM TV and Voice of America (VOA), according to the number of "likes" each channel receives on its Facebook page.

Michele S. Jones

News agencies discovered that Jones was a Facebook friend of Paul W. Gardner, the attorney of the Salahis, and that Jones exchanged email notes with the couple, telling them she was putting them on a waiting list in case tickets became available for a state dinner with the President and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Mohamed Ibrahim Mostafa

Mohamed Ibrahim worked with Wael Ghonim, the founder of the Arabic Facebook page "We are all Khaled Said", and formed up the "We are all Khaled Said" movement with the two Facebook Arabic and English pages.

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.

My Windows Phone

Contacts - Automatic synchronization of all contacts in the People hub to their Microsoft account, including contacts added from other connected services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Sina Weibo.

Olga Korbut

She watched the gymnastics competitions in the North Greenwich Arena, providing commentary by way of Twitter and Facebook.

Peace of Mind Campaign

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

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.

Real Sangria

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

Redroad FM

After the first broadcast a phone was put in the Redroad studio so listeners can text in after that an email account was set up so listeners can email in, finally a Facebook group was set up so listeners can get in touch via Facebook.

Rutherford County, North Carolina

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

SharePoint Dashboard

Popular Marketing and Social Media applications include Facebook, Google Analytics, Internet Marketing, and Twitter.

Social data revolution

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

The Fallen Drakes

According to The Fallen Drakes' Facebook & Twitter, the band are presently writing and recording their debut album with Ger McDonnell back in the producers chair alongside new addition; Philip Magee (The Script).

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.

Titan the Robot

In 2011, Cyberstein have confirmed on Facebook page that Titan will be used in an episode of the The Gadget Show 11th series.

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.

WeeMee

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

WXTB

The morning drive was most recently held down by the duo of Lex and Terry, who were let go in December 2009 in a move announced on the station's Facebook page.