At 101, Facebook`s Oldest User Visits Campus
Baku, August 29 (AZERTAC). She may be nearly four times as old as its founder, but Florence Detlor likes Facebook.
At 101 years old, she`s been named by the social network as the oldest of their 900 million registered users.
And she also happens to live near Facebook`s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., a fact that helped her get a personal tour and chance to meet some of the site`s leaders.
On her own page, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg posted a photo Monday of herself, Detlor and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (who is 28, the same age Detlor was in 1939).
Detlor says on her profile page that she`s a 1932 graduate of Occidental College. She joined the site almost exactly three years ago (August 19, 2009). As of Tuesday morning, Detlor had 652 Facebook friends.
She`s a regular, but not overly prolific, poster on the site. But in three years, she`s "liked" only two things: the Sony Dash, a pre-iPad tablet of sorts, and Dogwork.com, a site that specializes in animal videos.
Detlor`s status as Facebook`s oldest active user has already inspired some light-hearted competition.
The percentage of Internet users 50 and up who said they use social-networking sites spiked from 22% in 2009 to 42% the next year, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.
Respondents 65 and older reported a 100% increase, while those between 50 and 64 jumped 88%. By comparison, the number of users from 18-29 who said they use networking sites rose a much more meager 13%.
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