As one of the World’s most used and talked about social networking sites, can Facebook’s Wednesday re-launch keep the attention of its users and hold down competition from new rival, Twitter?  To keep you going until then, here’s 10 things you never thought you would know about everyone’s favourite distraction tool.

1.  Standing proudly at 175 million active users worldwide, if Facebook were a country, it would have a population almost as large as Brazil.

2.  Its population is aging – the fastest-growing demographic is over 30.

3.  5,000 is currently the maximum number of friends allowed – but this is soon to become unlimited…

4.  …but, the average user has only 120 friends.

5.  It was only in September 2006 that anyone with an email address was allowed to register – the site was initially made for Harvard students.

6.  Not even an exclusive photo sharing site, it is now the world’s number one place to share photos, serving 15 billion photos every day.

7.  The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has his own profile on rival networking site, Twitter.

8.  The company has over 700 employees from its 11 worldwide offices.

9.  The domain name was once www.thefacebook.com until changing to current www.facebook.com in August 2005.

10.  Chris Hughes, the co-founder of Facebook, served as the Director of Online Organising for Barack Obama’s famed 2008 presidential campaign.

This feature was published on BUzz.