FIVE HUNDRED MILLION......HALF A BILLION....ONE TWELFTH OF WORLDS POPULATION.....one Facebook.....

FACEBOOK GETS 500 MILLION MEMBERS:

Mark Zuckerberg sure is popular.

Facebook, the online social networking site, has reached 500 million members, making its Web population equal to the size of the world's third largest country.

Birthed in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, the site's number of users has accelerated in the past year.

In January 2009, Facebook had 150 million members.

The company isn't suffering for ambition:

last month, Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO, said that the site would hit one billion users.

This fall, Aaron Sorkin will release a movie depicting the rise of the company.

The tagline? "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies."

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An adult human body contains approximately 100 trillion cells.

Holy HOLLYWOOD................

LBN-THIS DAY IN HISTORY:














Hollywood Sign Is Dedicated (1923)








The iconic Hollywood sign overlooking the community, which spells out its name in 50-foot (15-meter) high white letters originally said "Hollywood land".








It was erected as an advertisement for a real estate firm promoting a new housing development with that name.








Though not intended to be permanent, the sign quickly became an internationally recognized landmark, and the last four letters were removed in 1949.