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Advice is swapped -- >> facebook saved my life. >> reporter: and the american teen lives and breathes. >> in a world without facebook, i think i would die. >> reporter: this is why the company has exploded. over the past 15 months facebook has added around eight new users every second. each of those people has around 130 friends and will share 70 different bits of life with them each month. pictures, passions, causes, home movies. so much that facebook is now a virtual sea of information that ri...

Promised to keep his users happy. but when facebook customers were surveyed by the university of michigan they rated the company in the bottom 5%, with the kind of sour marks usually given to airlines or the irs. what does that say about this company right now? >> its a challenge to serve 500 million people. and also make a business of it. >> do you think mark zuckerberg fully understands what hes created? >> mark zuckerberg is like every other ceo in his 20s. he is hanging on for dear life as h...

Right? i mean, when you break up with a girlfriend or have a failed relationship, those things are bruising but you learn from that and thats part of what makes you who you are. >> reporter: even this week. another case. his team wase man was saying zuckerberg had given him a contract giving him 84% of the company. >> we were quite sure we did not sign a contract that says they facebook. >> reporter: another rough patch for zuckerberg, an outcry from users about facebook and privacy. >> yeah, we...

Z finally this half hour, a social networking milestone. after just six years in existence, facebook, your favorite website, has 500 million users. >> i was just updating my status with reading intro right now live on tv. that means since founder mark zuckerberg started the site, 500 million people have poked, flagged, tagged and friended each other. bill weir has more. >> reporter: it is an engine of human connection. give facebook a few vital facts about yourself and it gives you a direct li...

Neighborhood, a maze of desks in a modest open office. people who work here can come in at their own schedule. they can eat all their meals here, play an occasional guitar hero, they can even send out their laundry from work. all because the 26-year-old founder wants no distractions from creativity. >> 500 million. you are the third-largest country in the world now officially. what did you do to celebrate? did you do one yes? >> the main thing we did to celebrate here is every employee of facebo...

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! roa a storm threat in the gulf of mexico. steps are already being taken in case more wind and waves hit the oil zone. jellyfish attack. dozens of victims on the very same beach. >> for a grownup, it felt like a bee sting. you can still feel it. and our diane sawyer takes us inside facebook. >> its really the people who make the service. >> more than 500 million people are part of his services right now. its thursday, july 22nd. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> did you know ...

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