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Sometimes I wonder how much time I spend in the day doing random crap on the computer. I think facebook has become such a time suck, though I'm strangely addicted to it nonetheless. I've really been migrating away from checking it so often thankfully. Did anyone see the social network movie? I wonder what life as Mark Zuckerberg must be like.

• More than 35 million users update their status each day, with more than 55 million status updates each day
• More than 2.5 billion pictures are uploaded to Facebook each month
• Among children under 18, Facebook was ranked third in the top 100 searches of 2009, behind YouTube and Google. Sex and porn rounded out the top five searches
• In 2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, where he placed photos of undergraduates side by side so viewers could rank which one was “hotter.” Zuckerberg would later turn Facemash into the now ubiquitous Facebook
• The New Oxford Dictionary announced that the 2009 Word of the Year was “unfriend,” as in “to remove someone as a friend on a social networking site” such as Facebook. However, there is some debate whether the word should be “defriend” rather than “unfriend.”
• A 39-year-old Pennsylvania father was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook.
• While initially created for college students, Facebook users over the age 26 now represent 60% of the total U.S. Facebook population
• The average Facebook users spend more than 55 minutes a day on the site. They use the Like button nine times a month and write 25 comments each month
• Lamebook.com is a regularly updated site that reposts “lame” and funny Facebook user posts
• In Florida, the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee ruled that Florida judges and lawyers should no longer “friend” each other on Facebook
• On July 1, 2009, shortly after Michael Jackson passed away, his page became the most popular page on Facebook. Previously, the most popular person on Facebook was U.S. President Obama with just over 6 million fans.