In Popular Culture
- American author Ben Mezrich published a book in July 2009 about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, titled The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal.
- The Social Network, a drama film directed by David Fincher about the founding of Facebook, was released October 1, 2010. Mark Zuckerberg has said that The Social Network is inaccurate.
- In response to the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day controversy and the ban of the website in Pakistan, an Islamic version of the website was created, called MillatFacebook.
- "You Have 0 Friends", an April 2010 episode of the American animated comedy series, South Park, explicitly parodied Facebook.
- At age 102, Ivy Bean of Bradford, England joined Facebook in 2008, making her one of the oldest people ever on Facebook. At the time of her death in July 2010, she had 4,962 friends on Facebook and more than 56,000 followers on Twitter.
- On May 16, 2011, an Israeli couple named their daughter after the Facebook "like" feature.
- Major competitors of Facebook are qzone(qq.com) and renren in China and South Korea; VK_(social_network) and Odnoklassniki in Russia,Belarus,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Moldova,Ukraine,Uzbekistan; Draugiem.lv in Latvia; Cloob in Iran; Zing in Vietnam; mixi in Japan.
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