Sachin Tendulkar becomes the latest celebrity to join the Facebook
bandwagon. His official Facebook page -
https://www.facebook.com/SachinTendulkar - became live on Monday 9:00 AM
and has already garnered 4 lakh likes within a few hours of going live.
Tendulkar had joined the micro-blogging website Twitter in 2010 and
currently has 26,80,791 followers.
He welcomed his fan with a video
message that says, "I'll like to welcome you to my Facebook family. As a
child I always dreamt of playing cricket for India and I chased my
dream of winning the World Cup for 22 years. It wouldn't have been
possible without your support. I wanna take this opportunity to thank
all of you for having prayed for me and wish well for me. I look forward
to sharing my experience with you, join me on my Facebook so that we
both can share this experience and go through this journey together."
The
page also celebrates all the major career milestones of Sachin till
date but does not share much information about his personal life.
Amitabh Bachchan had joined Facebook in August 2012 and got close to eight lakh
likes for his page in just half an hour after going live. Apart from
Amitabh, Aamir Khan is another B'Town celebrity who has been quite
active on Facebook and he has over 5 million likes for his Facebook
page