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When 1m Facebook likes were demanded as dowry In December last year a father in Yemen asked his potential future soninlaw to provide him with 1 million Facebook as dowry before he allows him to marry his daughter Salem Ayash a poet from the city of Taiz said that he requested the unusual payment before agreeing to let his daughter get married as noone in Yemen can afford to pay dowries anymore according to news reports Ayash added that the groom can take a month a year or even two years to collect the requested number of likes and if he gets impressed by the hard work he will be willing to be flexible to see his daughter get happily married to the guyFacebooks oldest user 108yearold Edythe Kirchmaier is reportedly Facebooks oldest registered user Kirchmaier who was 106 at the time of her record earned the title of being the sites senior most member in 2013 when friends from the medical aid charity Direct Relief signed her up for an account on her 105th birthday According to ABC News Kirchmaier is also Californias oldest licensed driver and the University of Chicagos oldest living graduate At first she couldnt enter her birth year of 1908 when she joined Facebook a glitch that took the sites engineers one month to fix after verifying her age as it was something they never had to do beforeWanted man makes Facebook post arrested A man evading arrest in Pennsylvania USA actually shared the polices Wanted message about himself on Facebook only to be arrested 45 minutes later Anthony James Lescowitch Jr made a big blunder when he posted it accidentally for public view His post even received two likes and was commented on by a number of his friends some of whom wished him good luckMark Zuckerberg is not the first Facebook user The Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is at number four amongst the first few users on the social networking site In fact the first three accounts on Facebook were reserved for testing leaving Zuckerberg at number fourEngineer rewarded with meagre pay for finding Facebooks biggest bug A computer engineer in Brazil Reginaldo Silva had found one of the worst kinds of vulnerabilities in Facebooks software in November 2013 and hoped to strike the jackpot However Silva was paid 33500 dollars for the discovery despite Facebooks security director Ryan McGeehans statement made in July 2012 that if theres a milliondollar bug the company would pay it outFacebook could lose 80 pc users by 2017 Facebook is likely to lose 80 percent of its users and getting largely abandoned by 2017 researchers at Princeton University said John Cannarella and Joshua Spechler revealed that the charts produced by the Google Trends service show Facebook searches peaked in December 2012 but since begun to trail off The researchers made the forecast by comparing the growth curve of others online social networks like bubonic plagueMark Zuckerberg was the most charitable in 2013 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly topped the giving list for US philanthropists after donating a Silicon Valley foundation with nearly one billion dollars Zuckerberg along with wife Priscilla Chan contributed the sum to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation including 18 million in Facebook shares that totaled to about 992 million dollarsFacebook CEO and cofounder Mark ZuckerbergThink your wasting time on Facebook Heres how you can find out Those who want to congratulate the site on eating up a chunk of their last decade can take help from a new tool that estimates to the minute how much time has been spent by a user on the site The calculator has been developed by TIME Magazine and it accesses data on when a user joined the site and how often the things have been posted to the feed1 dollar Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbergs salary23 years The age when Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire as a result of the social network websites success by 2007The Facebook Facebooks original name during the time of its initial release on February 4 2004Mark Zuckerberg is popular on other social media sites as well Apart from his own social networking site Facebook Mark Zuckerberg also has accounts on Google and Twitter Zuckerberg had become the most followed user on Google outranking Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin for some time He has maintained a private account on Twitter under the username zuck although as of November 2014 the accounts status is suspended Another account finkd also belonged to himFacebook was launched in a college campus Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin Andrew McCollum Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes launched Facebook from Harvard Universitys dormitory rooms The group then introduced the social networking website onto other campuses nationwideFacesmash Mark Zuckerbergs cocreating Facebook was preceded by another website named Facesmash written by Zuckerberg and his classmates The website was set up as a type of hot or not game for Harvard students and allowed visitors to compare two student pictures sidebyside and let them choose who was hot and who was notZuckerberg meets Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise guest appearance on the January 29 2011 episode of the hit sketchcomedy show Saturday Night Live which was being hosted by Jesse Eisenberg the actor who played Zuckerberg in the biopic The Social Network Although Zuckerberg was critical of the film for his inaccurate portrayal he nonetheless had a cordial and friendly meeting with Eisenberg calling his portrayal in the film as interestingInternetorg In August 2013 Mark Zuckerberg launched the Internetorg project to provide Internet access to the 5 billion people who are not connected as of the launch date In a public Facebook post Zuckerberg mentioned that by using a threetier strategy Internetorg will also create new jobs and open up new marketsThe viral Facebook bikini video A fake video enticing people to click on the picture of a bikiniclad woman on a beach went viral on the site recently Thanks to the spam link people kept on clicking on it and the post automatically got reposted through their Facebook profile page The post had a description Look what this girl is wearing at the beach in front of thousands of peopleWomans weight loss picture too adult for Facebook Facebook had reportedly removed a fullyclothed weight loss picture of Marilyn McKenna wife of former Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna for promoting adult content After losing 54kg post a lap band surgery Marilyn who weighed 120kg six years ago posted a picture of herself wearing her old baggy pants that fitted both her legs inside one of its own while she held the waistband out to show weight loss