Earlier this decade, people tend to use different social networking sites depending on the geographical location, country or region. Friendster was very popular with Asians, with more than 90% of its users coming from Asia. The United States was very big on MySpace. The United Kingdom, on the other hand, rooted for Friends Reunited. Now people all over the world have a Facebook account. More and more are increasingly neglecting their MySpace, Friendster and other social networking accounts.

Facebook has become the most popular social networking site, bringing together everyone on the planet on the same page. Everyday, the site’s 250 million members update their Facebook accounts, catch up with friends and family, play games, join causes and basically interact with others.

Facebook wins because of its interactive interface. It is now easy to get news from people you know, but it is easier to filter out information from people you do not know. You can do a lot of things online as well, from playing poker to answering quizzes.

Facebook has become such a phenomenon that it and its users have created a culture revolving around it and of course, some humor has found its voice in spoofing Facebook faces. More and more people are creating fake Facebook pages for celebrities, athletes, politicians, even religious and historical figures. Not every one is a gem, but these five surely are!

5. Bill Gates
Bill Gates’ fake Facebook page pokes fun at his wealth. Case in point is his status message: “just bought Azerbaijan.”

A wall message from Warren Buffett thanked Gates for curing his bad back by advising that he sleep on piles of money.

What is more interesting with Gates’ Facebook page is the banter between him and “Steve Jobs”.

Jobs leaves a wall message saying “Remember that OS you made that was awesome? Yeah, neither do I.” To which Gates retorted that the new iPod shuffle looked like a tampon.

4. Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’ fake Facebook page is much more revealing, taking recent events that happened to Apple and to Steve Jobs himself and putting in a funny spin. Jobs’ page starts with his severing ties with U2 and its frontman Bono. Jobs even called Bono a “weird little leprechaun” for supporting RIM Palm.

The people behind the page also poke at Steve Jobs’ fashion faux pas, wearing a black turtleneck in summer.

Jobs, however, gets more cameo appearances, notably from Brad Pitt, Noah Wyle, Neil Patrick Harris and Christian Bale.

3. Barack Obama
Although more like a Facebook news feed than a page, Obama’s page takes a funny look at American politics, starting with Barack Obama’s taking the oath of office. It also features a lot of heavyweights in power now like Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Reggie Love and Steven Chu.

Hillary Clinton provides a repeating gag where in she does things better and earlier than Obama does. Like when Obama added Canada to the Places I’ve Been application. Hillary would add: “Egypt, Israel, Switzerland, the Palestinian Territories, Belgium, China, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Japan, Mexico, Brazil and 37 others” to the same application. And when Obama posts a video of himself on Leno, Clinton goes “Me on Leno in 1997.”

It also paints a picture of who Obama was before becoming president and how he is after assuming office. Ceasing to be a fan of Iraq, but becoming a fan of Afghanistan, stimulus and stem cell research. It, however, pokes fun at the American society at large as well, saying that “5 million people updated their Work Info to Unemployed.”

2. Satan
First off, Satan has a lot of friends. In fact, he has 6.7 billion friends in common with everyone. He is friends with Darth Vader, Kathy Griffin, Skeletor, Phil Spector, Pol Pot, Myra Hindley, Tim Robbins, Jerry Springer, Tony Blair, David Blaine, Britney Spears and Lassie. I will leave it to you as to how all that should be interpreted.

1. God’s Facebook page
If Satan has a fake Facebook page, why not God? Probably one of the earliest spoofs that came out in November 2008, God’s Facebook page focuses on the creation. Each entry tells a particular story in Genesis. Early on, God create the new groups Light, Earth and Garden of Eden.

And then he created Adam and they became friends. And then Adam and Eve are in a relationship. Also, the serpent sent Eve a gift through the gift application. Guess what kind of gift it is.

It goes on and on translating events that transpired in Genesis and Facebooking it up to the time when Cain and Abel were born.

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