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Most Number of Facebook Users

I was tempted to produce a map showing Facebook users in the United States by States after seeing someone posted a map of the world in terms of Twitter users. Here are my results based on the Facebook Usage Statistics for August 31, 2010.

Dragon's Call on Friendster

Shocked? No. I expected Friendster to evolve. But I never thought it could become a game site. Friendster.com, the social networking site that used to be so popular in the Philippines, failed to catch up with the popularity of Facebook and eventually saw its defeat.

FB Interface

I finally figured how to add or integrate Facebook comments on my blog. I have seen so many popular sites doing this, but I thought there was no reason of putting a Facebook conversations app since there already exists a comment interface on my blog. But the blog moguls have convinced me.

Facebook statisitcs from www.socialbakers.com.

I was reading an article from the Philippine Star today mentioning that as of January 2011, there are 21,759, 280 Filipinos who are using Facebook. Another website that publishes Facebook weekly statistics by country listed the Philippines at no. 7 with the most number of FB users (23,446,700 as of April 2011) among over 200 countries. While it is obvious that Facebook has reached and penetrated every corner in the world and tremendously increased its number of users over the past year, the Philippines is surely contributing to its growth. Crunching at the numbers, the Philippines has added 1,044,220 users over the last two weeks, putting the country on the list of high percentage of growth.

Blogger Interface

The title of this post is weird. Yes, I placed the link http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif right on top. If you are reading this post, most likely you have the same problem as mine. You are trying to look for an answer as to why the “http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif” keeps appearing on your Blogger post.

Everyone in the GIS Center received an email requiring us to undergo the online harassment training. The training took about 20 minutes to complete, and it was worth it. Let me share to you some of the things I read from the South Dakota Board of Regents document.

Online Harassment Training

There is a way to know whether you alone or somebody else is using your Facebook account. Facebook security features include a detection of current activities and locations of previous log-ins.

To check if someone is secretly logging into your FB account, go to “Account” then “Account Settings” then “Account Security”. You will be prompted with a window like this: