Thursday, December 15, 2011

Facebook Losing Users

Facebook the world’s largest social network site with more than 800 million active users around the world and roughly 200 million in the United States or two-thirds of the population, as of December 2011. According to Inside Facebook, a leading source of news and analysis on Facebook’s global growth says, Facebook in the U.S. has lost nearly 6 million users, falling from 155.2 million at the start of May 2011 to 149.4 million at the end of it.


This is the first time that Facebook has lost the U.S. users. Even Canada also fell significantly, by 1.52 million down, although it has been fluctuating around that number. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom, Norway and Russia all posted losses of more than 100,000 users.

The study also reveals that 42 percent of users will use Facebook less than what they used to do and with 17 percent claiming they are stopped Facebook outright.

Despite the possible losses, Facebook is still growing with more than 800 million
users, having reached 687 million monthly actives.

Source: http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Facebook_Loosing_US_Users-nid-100582-cid-2.html

Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Beauty Pageants of India


Leela Naidu
This stunning female won the Miss India title in the year 1954


Reita Faria Powell



The first Indian to win the miss world title in the year 1966 is from Mumbai. She rejected all the offers from movies and modeling world for her career.

Zeenat Aman


She was a second runner up of Miss India contest and won Miss Asia Pacific pageant in the year 1970.











Juhi Chawla




She won the Miss India beauty pageant in the year 1984.















Sushmita Sen



The Hot Bengali who is highly respected is the film industry is the first Indian woman to be crowned as miss universe from India in the year 1994.

Aishwarya Rai


The Mangalore beauty and a former model was crowned as miss world in the year 1994.

















Diana Hayden


The beauty pageant title holder from India who won the Femina miss India contest and was also crowned as miss world in the year 1997.

Lara Dutta



The Indian actress who won the title of miss universe in the year 2000.

















Priyanka Chopra


The actress who gained fame all over the world by winning the miss world title in the year 2000.