Facebook is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old is allowed to become a registered user of the website, though the age requirement may be higher depending on applicable local laws. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to it by American universities' students.
After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos and receive notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". Facebook had over 1.44 billion monthly active users as of March 2015. Because of the large volume of data users submit to the service, Facebook has come under scrutiny for their privacy policies. Facebook, Inc. held its initial public offering in February 2012 and began selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an original peak market capitalization of $104 billion. On July 13, 2015, Facebook became the fastest company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to reach a market cap of $250 billion.
Facts about Facebook :
Facebook has over 350 million active users. 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.
The average Facebook user has 130 friends and sends eight friend requests per 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.
A recent survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social networking sites such as Facebook to evaluate applicants. Thirty-eight percent of admissions officers said that what they saw negatively affected the applicant.
Facebook is not only beating MySpace traffic, but it is also the second-ranked site overall in the U.S. behind Google.
Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook and five billion minutes on MySpace.
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.
A woman slept with 50 men she met on her Facebook page titled “I Need Sex”
In 2008, a 23-year-old woman named Lauren Michaels created a group titled “I Need Sex” on Facebook. Within 10 minutes, she had 35 members and soon attracted 100—50 of whom she eventually slept with. Facebook has since removed her page.
An 18-year-old Wisconsin man posed as several different girls on Facebook to blackmail underage male teens into performing sexual favors by coaxing them to send nude photos of themselves. He could be facing up to 300 years in prison.
Beacon, part of Facebook’s controversial advertisement system that broadcasted information about a user’s shopping activity on other sites, was the target of a class action lawsuit in 2009. The resulting settlement required Facebook to pay $9.5 million into a settlement fund.
If Facebook were a country, it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, afterChina, India, the U.S., and Indonesia.
In 2009, an EMT at the crime scene took a cell phone picture of the body of a New York woman who had been strangled and beaten and then posted it on his Facebook profile. He was later arrested on charges of official misconduct and was fired from his job.
The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales warned that Facebook and MySpace can lead children to commit suicide because such sites encourage teens to build transient relationships and dehumanize community life.
Facebook includes eating disorder groups such as “Get Thin or Die Trying,” and “Quod me nutrit me destruit” (“What nourishes me destroys me”). While such eating disorder sites were typically anonymous on the Web, their growing presence on Facebook makes them more public and accessible to more people.h
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.”l
A 39-year-old Pennsylvania father was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook.
While stressing that correlation does not equal causation, a recent poll suggested that Facebook users have lower overall grades than non-users.
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.
Life Style of Mark Zukerberg :
Being the youngest billionare, any aspiring programmer would take Zuckerberg as an Inspiration. Wanna know the lifestyle of Zuck, view the video,
The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum located on the southern bank of Yamuna River in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his favorite wife of three, Mumtaz Mahal.
The Taj Mahal is regarded by many as the best example of Mughal architecture and is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India". It is one of the world’s most celebrated structures and a symbol of India’s rich history. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983, the Taj Mahal attracts some 3 million visitors a year.
Construction of the mausoleum was essentially completed in 1643 but work
continued on other phases of the project for an additional ten years.
The Taj Mahal complex is believed to have been completed in its entirety
in 1653 at a cost estimated at the time to be around 32 million Indian
rupees, which in 2015 would be valued at around 52.8 billion Indian
rupees ($827 million US). The construction project employed around
20,000 artisans under the guidance of a board of architects led by Ustad
Ahmad Lahauri. The domed marble tomb is part of an integrated complex
consisting of gardens and two red-sandstone buildings surrounded by a
crenellated wall on three sides.
Construction
The Taj Mahal is built on a parcel of land to the south of the walled city of Agra. Shah Jahan presented Maharajah Jai Singh with a large palace in the center of Agra in exchange for the land. An area of roughly three acres was excavated, filled with dirt to reduce seepage, and leveled at 50 metres (160 ft) above riverbank. In the tomb area, wells were dug and filled with stone and rubble to form the footings of the tomb. Instead of lashed bamboo, workmen constructed a colossal brick scaffold that mirrored the tomb. The scaffold was so enormous that foremen estimated it would take years to dismantle.
The Taj Mahal was constructed using materials from all over India and Asia. It is believed over 1,000 elephants were used to transport building materials. The translucent white marble was brought from Makrana, Rajasthan, the jasper from Punjab, jade and crystal from China. The turquoise was from Tibet and the Lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, while the sapphire came from Sri Lanka and the carnelian from Arabia. In all, twenty eight types of precious and semi-precious stones were inlaid into the white marble.
According to the legend, Shah Jahan decreed that anyone could keep the bricks taken from the scaffold, and thus it was dismantled by peasants overnight. A fifteen kilometer (9.3 mi) tamped-earth ramp was built to transport marble and materials to the construction site and teams of twenty or thirty oxen pulled the blocks on specially constructed wagons. An elaborate post-and-beam pulley system was used to raise the blocks into desired position. Water was drawn from the river by a series of purs, an animal-powered rope and bucket mechanism, into a large storage tank and raised to a large distribution tank. It was passed into three subsidiary tanks, from which it was piped to the complex.
The plinth and tomb took roughly 12 years to complete. The remaining parts of the complex took an additional 10 years and were completed in order of minarets, mosque and jawab, and gateway. Since the complex was built in stages, discrepancies exist in completion dates due to differing opinions on "completion". Construction of the mausoleum itself was essentially completed by 1643 while work continued on the outlying buildings. Estimates of the cost of construction vary due to difficulties in estimating costs across time. The total cost has been estimated to be about 32 million Indian rupees, which is around 52.8 billion Indian rupees ($827 million US) based on 2015 values.
Facts about Taj Mahal:
1.Mumtaz Mahal was Shah Jahan's third wife. Her name was originally Arjumand Bano Begum but when she married Shah Jahan she was christened as Mumtaz Mahal which means ‘Jewel of the Palace', or ‘Chosen One of the Palace'.
2.Taj Mahal means ‘crown of places'.
3.The Taj Mahal took approximately 20 years and approximately 20,000 workers to complete. There were also about 1000 elephants used to transport the materials needed for construction.
4.The Taj Mahal complex also has additional mausoleums, a mosque, a reflecting pool and large garden to add to its beauty.
5. The Taj Mahal stands at 561 feet tall.
6.The material used to build the Taj Mahal is white marble. The marble used in construction was brought from many different countries.
7.The Taj Mahal has a large white dome surrounded by four smaller domes. The large white dome in the center is approximately 115 feet tall.
8. The color of Taj Mahal appears to change color depending on the time of day. The color change also depends on whether there is moonlight at night.
9.There were about 28 different types of precious and semi-precious stones inlaid into the burial tomb of the Taj Mahal. During the Indian Rebellion in 1857, many of the precious stones were stripped from the walls of the tomb.
10.Over 200,000 tourists from overseas and as many as 2 to 4 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year.
11.UNESCO has designated the Taj Mahal as a World Heritage Site and it is also one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The ‘New' Seven Wonders of the world were chosen by people voting from all over the world.
12.There are 99 names of Allah inscribed calligraphically on the side of Mumtaz Mahal's actual tomb.
13.The four pillars around the main dome were built to slant away from the dome slightly. This was done to help protect the tomb if the pillars ever collapsed.
14.The cost to build the Taj Mahal was about 35 million rupees, which would be about 1 million American dollars. In 1632 that would be an enormous amount of money to spend on a mausoleum.
15.It was rumored that Shah Jahan had the hands cut off from the people who worked on the Taj Mahal once it was complete. His reasoning was that nobody would ever be able to build such a beautiful building ever again. Nobody has been able to prove that this story is true.
16. Although the Taj Mahal was built for Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan was also laid to rest in the tomb alongside his late wife.
A computer virus is a malware program that, when executed, replicates by inserting copies of itself (possibly modified) into other computer programs, data files, or the boot sector of the hard drive; when this replication succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be "infected". Viruses often perform some type of harmful activity on infected hosts, such as stealing hard disk space or CPU time, accessing private information, corrupting data, displaying political or humorous messages on the user's screen, spamming their contacts, logging their keystrokes, or even rendering the computer useless. However, not all viruses carry a destructive payload or attempt to hide themselves—the defining characteristic of viruses is that they are self-replicating computer programs which install themselves without user consent.
Computer viruses currently cause billions of dollars' worth of economic damage each year, due to causing systems failure, wasting computer resources, corrupting data, increasing maintenance costs, etc. In response, free, open-source antivirus tools have been developed, and a multi-billion dollar industry of antivirus software vendors has cropped up, selling virus protection to users of various operating systems of which Windows is often the most victimized, partially due to its extreme popularity.[citation needed] No currently existing antivirus software is able to catch all computer viruses (especially new ones); computer security researchers are actively searching for new ways to enable antivirus solutions to more effectively detect emerging viruses, before they have already become widely distributed.
Facts about Virus :
The
first polymorphic virus of the world was Tequila which was released in
1991. Polymorphic viruses were the ones which used to change their
appearances with each encounter with a virus infection. Ultimately with
the release of this virus, the life of virus scanners got very difficult
as they were not able to identify this virus at the majority period of
time.
One of the most powerful virus in the world was Melissa Virus which
was released in March 1999. This virus was so dangerous and impactful
that it forced the big names in computer worlds like Microsoft to stop
their email systems untill unless the virus is removed properly from the
computer and system. The virus was a mass mailing macro virus which
according to a report infected the 20% systems all across the world.
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The first polymorphic virus of the world was Tequila which was released in 1991. Polymorphic viruses were the ones which used to change their appearances with each encounter with a virus infection. Ultimately with the release of this virus, the life of virus scanners got very difficult as they were not able to identify this virus at the majority period of time.
One of the most powerful virus in the world was Melissa Virus which was released in March 1999. This virus was so dangerous and impactful that it forced the big names in computer worlds like Microsoft to stop their email systems untill unless the virus is removed properly from the computer and system. The virus was a mass mailing macro virus which according to a report infected the 20% systems all across the world.
Almost very few people know that world’s first known computer virus was a computer program itself which was “Elk Cloner”. Richard Skentra was the one who wrote this program in 1981. This computer program virus started when it attached itself with an Apple DOS 3.3 operating system and it started spreading through floppy disk. This program was written in 1982 by Richard when he was only 15 years old.
Another computer virus fact is that back in 2004 in January, a computer virus worm named Mydoom infected more than quarter million computers all across the world in a single day.
Michelangelo was one of the most dangerous and worst MS-DOS virus which way back in 1991 started attacking the boot sector of hard drive and floppy disk you inserts in your PC. For some time this virus spreads very quietly and on March 6, the virus was activated and it started destroying the data of over 5 million computers which were infected by this virus.
There are many facts about you were unaware of before this post like the first famous web browser was released back in 1993 and was named Mosaic. The credits of popularizing the web browsers has always gone to Mosaic Web browser and you can also call it NCSA Mosaic. The support and development of this browser was stopped in January 7, 1997.
Sweden is the country which has the highest percentage of internet users and according to a report almost 75% of citizens of Sweden uses internet.
“Rother J” was the world’s first computer virus which actually came into notice outside the computer labs and due to this it was also termed as the “into the wild” by the computer geeks.
We all are active on internet but do you know that how many people are on the internet? There are over 1,567,872,900 people on the internet and taking this topic further do you know there are over 1.09 billion instant messaging and social accounts all across the world, which will be increasing with the time as the internet has been a very important part of our life and our lives are depending on it.
The house of the world’s richest man Mr. Bill Gates was designed by using a Macintosh Computer.
The
first polymorphic virus of the world was Tequila which was released in
1991. Polymorphic viruses were the ones which used to change their
appearances with each encounter with a virus infection. Ultimately with
the release of this virus, the life of virus scanners got very difficult
as they were not able to identify this virus at the majority period of
time.
One of the most powerful virus in the world was Melissa Virus which
was released in March 1999. This virus was so dangerous and impactful
that it forced the big names in computer worlds like Microsoft to stop
their email systems untill unless the virus is removed properly from the
computer and system. The virus was a mass mailing macro virus which
according to a report infected the 20% systems all across the world.
The
first polymorphic virus of the world was Tequila which was released in
1991. Polymorphic viruses were the ones which used to change their
appearances with each encounter with a virus infection. Ultimately with
the release of this virus, the life of virus scanners got very difficult
as they were not able to identify this virus at the majority period of
time.
One of the most powerful virus in the world was Melissa Virus which
was released in March 1999. This virus was so dangerous and impactful
that it forced the big names in computer worlds like Microsoft to stop
their email systems untill unless the virus is removed properly from the
computer and system. The virus was a mass mailing macro virus which
according to a report infected the 20% systems all across the world.
The
first polymorphic virus of the world was Tequila which was released in
1991. Polymorphic viruses were the ones which used to change their
appearances with each encounter with a virus infection. Ultimately with
the release of this virus, the life of virus scanners got very difficult
as they were not able to identify this virus at the majority period of
time.
One of the most powerful virus in the world was Melissa Virus which
was released in March 1999. This virus was so dangerous and impactful
that it forced the big names in computer worlds like Microsoft to stop
their email systems untill unless the virus is removed properly from the
computer and system. The virus was a mass mailing macro virus which
according to a report infected the 20% systems all across the world.
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Everyone want to live a happy life. Everyday counts .Start each day expecting something amazing is going to happen. Here is 10 simple rules to make your day amazing.
1. TODAY I WILL NOT STRIKE BACK:
If someone is rude, if someone is impatient, if someone is unkind...
I will not respond in a like manner.
2. TODAY I WILL ASK GOD TO BLESS MY "ENEMY":
If I come across someone who treats me harshly or unfairly, I will
quietly ask God to bless that individual. I understand the "enemy"
could be a family member, neighbor, co-worker, or a stranger.
3. TODAY I WILL BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT I SAY:
I will carefully choose and guard my words being certain that I do
not spread gossip.
4. TODAY I WILL GO THE EXTRA MILE:
I will find ways to help share the burden of another person.
5. TODAY I WILL FORGIVE:
I will forgive any hurts or injuries that come my way.
6. TODAY I WILL DO SOMETHING NICE FOR SOMEONE,
BUT I WILL NOT DO IT SECRETLY:
I will reach out anonymously and bless the life of another.
7. TODAY I WILL TREAT OTHERS THE WAY I WISH TO BE
TREATED:
I will practice the golden rule - "Do unto others as I would have
them do unto me" - with everyone I encounter.
8. TODAY I WILL RAISE THE SPIRITS OF SOMEONE I
DISCOURAGED:
My smile, my words, my ex-pression of support, can make the
difference to someone who is wrestling life.
9. TODAY I WILL NUTURE MY BODY:
I will eat less; I will eat only healthy foods. I will thank God for my
body.
10. TODAY I WILL GROW SPIRITUALLUY:
I will spend a little more time in prayer today: I will begin reading
something spiritual or inspirational today; I will find a quiet place
(at some point during the day) and listen to God's voice!
Premonition(Precognition) (from the Latin præ-, “before” and cognitio, “acquiring knowledge”), also called future sight, and second sight,
is an alleged psychic ability to see events in the future.This may
range from insight into a insignificant event to the death of an
individual.As with other forms of extrasensory, there is no evidence
that precognition is a real ability possessed by anyone. But it can’t be
proved nil. There are awful amount of people conveying the message
there is a way of knowing the future through our own psychological mind. So how can you possibly distinguish precognitive dream from a normal dream? Here is the list of what a precognitive dreams can have.
Highly symbolic:
These dreams are highly symbolic. They can’t be understood easily.
The meaning can go into various realm. Those dreams can be interpreted
wrongly, which might indeed cause trouble to you indirectly. If you
can’t understand, it is always better to get rid of it than to falsely
interpret.
They never dilute from memory:
The main characteristic of these dreams is that they never vanish
from your memories. It will remain in your memory for even decades. You
may even wonder how you possibly forget the things that you experience
in your life but not the dream. If they are pleasant you may be
expecting it to happen. If not, you may feel tired of the dream.
It will surely happen:
These dreams surely come to pass. It may take a day, a year or even a
decade. But it will surely happen. May be you can even not able to
change it. It is something that can’t be change even though you know
before hand what is going to happen. You may not have the control over
the thing that happen in your life.
Self-Inducing:
Premonitions are future information that knowing it before hand may
trigger its actual happening. It may induce thoughts you may never had
been thinking before. Those thought become action and action become
destination. They can be encouraging or terribly discouraging. So, don’t
go for a dream without knowing it’s meaning.
Highly Intense:
Sometimes premonitions are highly intense. Highly intense I mean that
it can be accurate to the highest possibility to the level you may
think that you actually been there or as if actually happened. You may
even forget your present for a while because you had a premonition. I my opinion, precognitive dreams are responsible for dejavu.
Evangelist Nick Vujicic, who spoke at
Saddleback Church in Calif. on Sunday, was born with neither arms nor legs, and
questioned God for eight years why it was so. The answer changed his life, and through
him that of tens of thousands of others.
For the now 30-year-old Nick, founding president and CEO of the nonprofit
organization Life Without Limbs, the most important thing in life was to
understand why God made him without arms and legs.
Speaking at Pastor Rick Warren's church in Lake Forest on Sunday evening, the
inspirational speaker said he spent eight years asking God, "Why? Why was
I born this way? I don't understand how can You say You love me when You allow
me to stay in this pain."
Vujicic, who has been living in California since 2007, was born in Brisbane,
Australia. His parents – Pastor Boris Vujicic and nurse Dushka Vujicic – were
not given any medical explanation or warning about his birth with neither arms
nor legs. But Nick got the answer to his desperate prayers.
John 9:1-3 spoke to him in a special way. The New Testament portion reads:
"As he (Jesus) went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples
asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?'
'Neither this man nor his parents sinned,' said Jesus, 'but this happened so
that the works of God might be displayed in him.'"
The Life Without Limbs author described his feelings after reading these
verses. "I got goosebumps on my skin I don't even have," he told the
congregants. "And I had faith because I understood something. You see, all
I wanted to know was that God knew what He was doing with me."
By the age of 19, Nick started to fulfill his dream of being able to encourage
other people and bring them the Gospel of Jesus through motivational speaking
and sharing his testimony about how God changed his life and gave him a future
and a hope.
The desire to have arms and legs has remained, Vujicic admitted. Initially, he
thought, "Lord, if you give me arms and legs, I'll go around the world and
share your power with the world." He said he still has ups and downs in
life. "I am just like you."
Vujicic said he has failed God every single day, but has relies on Philippians
1:6: "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will
carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."
Vujicic recalled he and dozens of his Christian friends once prayed for 90
minutes for his arms and legs in a farm in a jungle in India. They made arms
and legs with clay, and prayed it turn into flesh and bone. It didn't happen,
but he had peace in his heart as he saw an eagle soaring in the sky throughout
those 90 minutes. He said it was as if God was smiling, and was happy he had
the faith to pray.
"Please give me arms and legs. But if You don't give me arms and legs, I
trust You." This has been Vujicic's prayer. He said his commitment to
Jesus is "to want His plan, and not my plan ... even when I don't
understand."
You are praying for something, but what if God says "no" to that? he
asked. "Is He still God? Yes. Will He waste your pain? No." He quoted
Romans 8:28, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of
those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
Vujicic, who has traveled around the world, sharing his story with millions of
people, said he's grateful to God for saving him from the two biggest
disabilities: sin and death.
He said when he was 10 he wanted to commit suicide, and wanted to see someone
like him so that he wouldn't be alone. Five years ago in California, he finally
met a baby named Daniel, who too was born without arms and legs ...
"exactly like me." "Not getting a miracle, I can be a miracle to
Daniel ... an older brother of Daniel his whole life ... encourage him."
Nick said if he truly lived without arms and legs throughout his life
"just so I can hug Daniel in heaven, it's all worth it."
"I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my
circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire," he says on
his ministry's website. "If God can use a man without arms and legs to be
His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!"
