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67 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.

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.

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.

Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor

In February 2012, she spent the day in person with Justin Bieber, her pretend husband, after a Facebook campaign to meet her idol.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dentsu

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

Edulanka

Site popularity can be measured from increase of Alexa traffic rank, Facebook social plug in status, number of user shares and Google Search traffic ranks.

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.

FK Fyllingsdalen

There even arose a Facebook page named "Vi krever at den nye klubben skifter navn og draktfarge!" ("We demand that the new club change its name and colors"), which attracted more than 1,000 members.

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.

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.)

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.

Gregory Krumbock

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

Gyula Horn

Socialist lawmaker Ferenc Baja, a former minister in the Horn government, said in a Facebook entry that this was “unworthy” of the event.

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.

Herman Li

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

Hsin Ting

In 2011, Hsin Ting launched a personal Facebook page as well as a YouTube channel for the purposes of reaching out to younger Buddhists.

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.

Iowa Highway 136

Conditions along this part of Iowa 136 have led some residents to create a page on the social networking website Facebook dedicated to calling attention to the road.

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.

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.

Jung Il-woo

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

Kung Yik She Secondary School

Some Facebook groups, which criticize the school, are created during 2009 and 2010.

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.

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.

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.

MIFTA

By putting it up on the MIFTA's Facebook official page and with categorical promotion therein, they will ensure that Marathi films are promoted to youth not only in Maharashtra, but abroad too.

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.

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.

Peace of Mind Campaign

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

Quinn Ojinnaka

On May 29, 2009, Ojinnaka was arrested for simple battery at his home in Suwanee, Georgia after he fought with his wife and spat at her during an argument over a female friend of his on the social networking website Facebook, according to a police report.

Rocket Club

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

Seán Gallagher

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

Smisje Brewery

Following the example of Duvel Moortgat, who offered to brew again their limited-edition "Duvel Triple Hop" if 10,000 people would sign a petition for it, Brandt announced that if 20,000 people would join a Facebook group supporting it, he would offer to brew one additional historic recipe per year.

Swift Communications

In Fall of 2011, the Aspen Times re-enabled onymous commenting for users with an active Facebook account.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elmer the elm tree

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

Intervention Canada

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mingle Media TV Network

Mingle Media TV Network publishes their content through its web syndication network, including iTunes, Blip.TV, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, DailyMotion, Roku, Boxee and via the Stickam.com mobile app.

Mohyeldeen Mohammad

Dagbladet printed the cartoon on 3 February 2010 to illustrate a link on the Norwegian Police Security Service's Facebook page.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Turntable.fm

A number of entertainment executives have also invested, including Lady Gaga and her manager, Kanye West, Troy Carter, MTV's Courtney Holt, former Facebook executive Tim Kendall, The Roots, and Madonna's manager, Guy Oseary.

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.

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.