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January 12, 2010 at 8:52am
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A Facebook Deepthroat? The Facebook Interview you probably shouldn’t read……

here are the highlights (full article here):

  • -There is/was a master password that anyone at Facebook HQ could log in as any user, used. It was symbols & upper/lowercase letters that spelled out Chuck Norris. NOW they just have a little button to click if they want to get into your account.
    • People have been fired for abusing this.
  • -Facebook knows and tracks who your best friends are calculated by interactions
  • Facebook Tracks EVERYTHING. Profiles you view, photos you look at, photos your in, et cetera.
  • Facebook uses eye tracking
  • Facebook never deletes anything- Photos, Posts, Updates, Messages, Videos.
  • Facebook found that changing where the next button on photo galleries increased page views by 77%, reduced their bandwith, generated more money making clicks per minute.
  • In a couple of months the site will load in 1/5th the time it does now due to a complete code re-write.
  • ~70% of the engineers come from Stanford and Harvard

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