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		<title>Facebook &#8216;Stories&#8217; Celebrates 500 Million Users</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are now more Facebook users worldwide than there are Buddhists. To celebrate such an impressive milestone, we're all invited to share our "Facebook Stories."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Facebook marketing guru <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Randi" target="new">Randi Zuckerberg</a> estimates that the social-networking site will reach the <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100716/exclusive-facebook-will-announce-500-million-users-next-week-with-facebook-stories/" target="new99">half-billion</a> user mark sometime next week. Barring duplicate accounts, that&#8217;s 1/13th of the planet&#8217;s population, and it means that there will be more Facebook users worldwide than there are Buddhists. <small>(sources: <a href="http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/bud_statwrld.htm" target="new1">1</a>, <a href="http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html#Buddhism" target="new2">2</a>, <a href="http://www.thedhamma.com/buddhists_in_the_world.htm" target="new3">3</a>)</small></p>
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<td><img src="http://www.news-geek.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/wedding1.jpg" alt="Photos from our wedding reached Facebook during and shortly after each ceremony. Thanks to our friends, we basically live-blogged the best week of our lives." title="wedding" width="225" height="266" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-837" /><br />
<small>Though we had an official photographer, one of my favorite pictures from our wedding came from my friend and former radio co-host Matt Williams</small> </td>
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<p>To commemorate this milestone, the site will launch “Facebook Stories,” a collection of short, user-submitted blurbs about how Facebook has changed our lives.  </p>
<p>According to Zuckerberg (sister of CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg), a &#8220;Facebook Stories&#8221; Web page will list selected tales by location and themes such as “finding love,” &#8220;coping with grief&#8221; and “natural disasters.” Each story will be limited to just 420 characters, or the maximum length of a status update.  </p>
<p>You can submit your own story via a <a href="http://stories.facebook.com/" target="00">simple form</a>. And, if your story becomes popular and gets more &#8220;likes&#8221; than most stories, it could be featured on the site for all to see. </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the story I submitted:</p>
<blockquote><p>FB turned my wedding into a social-networking event! When we got married, we had a full &#8220;wedding week,&#8221; typical of my Indian people. Several of our friends photographed everything&#8211;sangeet, chura, various parties, our two (Hindu and Lutheran) weddings, our reception, etc.&#8211;and promptly uploaded their pics. One of the best gifts I received was an inbox full of loving comments from those who couldn&#8217;t attend.</p></blockquote>
<p>What kinds of stories would you submit?</p>
<p><strong>July 21, 2010 Update:</strong> Be sure to hit up <a href="http://stories.facebook.com" target="new55">http://stories.facebook.com</a> and vote for your favorite stories! You can &#8220;like&#8221; mine  <strong><a href="http://stories.facebook.com/?key=4c474e0a1aa74861880001f3">here</a></strong>&#8211;that is, if you really do <i>like</i> it. </p>
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