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    The Facebook Effect: How the Social Network Touched 500M Users

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    July 23, 2010
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      1The Facebook Effect: How the Social Network Touched 500M Users

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      by Clint Boulton

      2Zuckerberg Speaks

      2

      Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thanks Facebook users for using his Website in this video.

      3Sort Stories by Location

      3

      Mouse over the dots on the Microsoft Bing Map to see how many stories were submitted and from where. The more “likes” a story receives, the more likely it is to be featured in the forthcoming Stories “Most Popular” section.

      4Sort by Theme

      4

      Users who don’t want to view stories by geography can do so by diverse topics, such as college, crime fighting, music and politics.

      5Facebook User Deborah Well

      5

      Deborah Well offers a sort of six degrees of separation story.

      6Facebook Saves Lives

      6

      A western Pennsylvania woman turned to Facebook when she needed a kidney transplant, found a donor online and is now recovering from surgery, according to Fox News/a>.

      7Reconnections

      7

      Facebook helped Michigan’s Jesse Vial reconnect with a long-lost girlfriend to win her hand in marriage.

      8Saving Lives

      8

      Sam Devon used Facebook to contact a friend to get himself rescued from a whopper of a storm.

      9Finding Family

      9

      Cheryl Turner Walker used Facebook to seek out and find her father and connect with other family members for the first time.

      10How to Share a Story

      10

      Users type in a brief story and can share it publicly on the Stories Web page by logging into Facebook.

      11Facebook Stat Counter

      11

      Here are the latest usage statistics from Facebook where you can learn how many minutes people spend on Facebook and how many active applications are running on the site.

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