10 Most Shocking Facts About Facebook


#9 A place to walk out on your love

Over 25 percent of users have already been dumped via Facebook. In June 2010, a survey of 1,000 Facebook users, 70 percent of whom were male, found that 25 percent had been "dumped" via Facebook. And twenty-one percent of those surveyed said they would end a relationship by changing their Facebook relationship statuses to "single."

It is too shocking how easy a platform the Facebook has become where you can dump someone by just changing your relationship status from ‘committed’ to ‘single.’ (Source: ODDEE)

#8 Iceland used Facebook to rewrite its constitution!

In 2011, Iceland finally took on the task of rewriting its constitution after following Danish constitution by making minor changes. In the process government took help of the most popular social media in the country: Facebook (The other social medias like Twitter, Flickr and YouTube were also used).

Two thirds of Iceland's population (approximately 320,000) is on Facebook, so the constitutional council used Facebook to rewrite its constitution where citizens could use the social network to make their own suggestions, engage in online debates, or follow the proceedings in real-time. (Source:ZDNet)

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