In the U.S. about 7 thousand people die each year while waiting for organ transplants. Facebook hopes to reduce that number by creating a special application which allows users to become donors, without leaving the social network, reports The New York Times.
Facebook Supports Organ Donation Campaign?
Facebook IPO set for May 18
Facebook decided to start the initial public offering (IPO) on 18 May, according to the Associated Press. This is considered to be the most anticipated financial event after the Google’s entering the stock market in August 2004.
New Facebook Security initiative: Free Antivirus Protection?
The founders of Facebook have signed an agreement with a number of antivirus software companies. After that, users of the social network can have access to the free versions of the antivirus programs and install some other security tools.
When will Facebook have 1 Billion Users?
Facebook reported 900 million registered users, so we’ve got a question: when will Facebook have Billion Users? Back in February, some analysts attempted to predict the month of this billion user registration, and perhaps they were very close to the truth, but maybe not.
Yesterday we got new information provided by the Irish bookmaking agency Paddy Power: August or September.
TOP 7 Mistakes on Facebook
As in any social network, Facebook is full of people who are not completely familiar with the privacy settings. If a person is engaged in serious business, and uses the Facebook page to attract customers, then open page is good, however, if the personal page is open to the public, it can lead to some problems, including hacking the page.
Let’s have a look at 7 common mistakes of the average user:
Facebook Android Application Update: V1.9
4 months ago we already had an overview of updated Facebook App for Android, yesterday Facebook released new version 1.9 of the application.
According to official blog post, Facebook for Android 1.9 includes:
- Performance improvements.
- New messenger features, like adding adding people on the fly to the group conversation.
- Shortcuts to share photos and messages faster.
Facebook Ads Become More Popular
On comparing first quarters of 2011 and 2012, the average Cost per Thousand(CPM) of ads increased by 41%. In other words, Facebook earns almost half more now. At the same time, the average CPM in the last quarter grew 15% in the U.S. and 13% in the UK.
Facebook Timeline Gets Email
It’s been about six months since Facebook presented Timeline for pages. Now the social network introduces next innovation: starting from this week, each Timeline Page will get an email address.
Facebook Profile Design: History of Changes
Today we are going to overview the history of Facebook Profile changes from 2005 till the end of 2011.
Statistics: 38% of Children on Facebook are Under 12
According to the new research, Facebook’s restriction for registration of users under 13 years old, does not stop little children from doing it.
Previously we had an overview of the Popular Tools for Monitoring Your Children on Facebook. Now MinorMonitor, a tool for parents for monitoring activity of their children on Facebook, reports that in a poll of 1000 parents about how their kids use Facebook, appears that 38% of children under 12 years old are on Facebook. Among 1000 children, according to their parents, 40 were under the age of six.
