Facebook has its sights on China, where the social media titan is blocked, but analysts say its chances of re-entering the market of half a billion internet users are slim.

Facebook's coziness with Washington and the astronomical tax bill its founder could face by exercising a huge cache of stock options are some of the latest details to emerge about the social network following its IPO announcement.

Facebook's board of directors consists of this many women: Zero. Is this affecting the company's strategy and success?

Although more than half of its 845 million members log into Facebook on a mobile device, the company has not yet found a way to make real money from that use.

Facebook, despite having more female users, has zero women on its board of directors.

Facebook, which filed for an IPO this week, says it has been a success largely because it requires people to use their real names online and thus be more civil to each other. No anonymous flaming allowed. Can it last?

A huge influx of cash could enable the social networking site to topple the search giant, industry and financial analysts say.

As Facebook and Google jockey for dominance of the Web, the social networking titan's $US5 billion ($A4.68 billion) stock offering will give it a hefty war chest for the ongoing fight, analysts say.

I've been on Facebook for 2,561 days, having joined during the first year of its existence and my first year of college.

Without the free content created by its 850 million users, Facebook would surely not be on the verge of a multibillion-dollar initial public offering.