Facebook turned 10 last year! Created in 2004 in a Harvard student room, this social media quickly conquered the whole world and is today the 2nd most visited website!
Do you know why Facebook is blue? Or who is behind the strange “Facebook guy”? If you thought you knew everything about the most famous of social networks, you are not out of surprises! Here are 9 amazing things you didn’t know about Facebook:
1- If Facebook were a country, it would be the 2nd most populous state in the world
With 1.5 billion monthly active users, Facebook has recently taken second place on the podium. According to some expert estimates, if its growth rate continues at its current rate, it will take first place in China by 2016.
2- The mystery of the “Facebook Guy” finally solved
In its beginnings, when it was still called “The Facebook”, the famous social network displayed on its home page the face of a man slightly blurred by lines of code. Called “The Facebook guy”, this mysterious character actually represented the face of a young … Al Pacino!
3- Are you an average user?
An average user has 130 Facebook friends, uses the “Like” button 9 times and writes 25 comments per month, for a total of 55 minutes spent daily on the site.
4- Why is Facebook blue?
Mark Zuckerberg did not choose blue by chance for the graphic charter of his social network. In an interview with The New Yorker magazine, he said he was colorblind and that blue was the only color he could easily recognize.
5- Facebook, the breaker of couples in the 21st century?
In 2011, a third of all divorce forms contained the word “Facebook”, making the social media one of the main pieces of evidence in adultery cases. According to the Divorce-Online site, the main causes are: inappropriate messages towards members of the opposite sex, hate messages between temporarily separated spouses or even Facebook friends reporting the inappropriate behavior of one of the spouses.
6- 500 dollars reward for hackers
It’s a way for the social network to thank Internet users for discovering security problems. Once the problem is highlighted, Facebook gives itself 24 hours to resolve it. If he persists after the time has elapsed, the hacker is credited with a sum of 500 dollars … But it would seem that Mark Zuckerberg is not always a good loser
7- Excessive caution?
In order to protect its image, Facebook decided to take the lead and reserved around a hundred negative-sounding domain names, such as:
IhateTheFacebookLikeButton.com,
LikebuttonSuck.com,
LikeSucks.com,
FacebookCreditSuck.org
For all those who would think of buying the variations .org, .biz, .net, etc., it is useless: Facebook has taken the trouble to appropriate them as well.
8- Facebook is a village
Do you know the theory of “6 degrees of separation” established by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy? This evokes the possibility that each individual on the planet is virtually connected to anyone through an individual relationship chain comprising at most 5 other people. Scientists have recently been interested in knowing what the degree of separation on Facebook was, which would be… 3.74 individuals, which amounts to saying that in less than 4 steps, we are connected to anyone on the surface of the planet.
9- Add a 4 at the end of the Facebook URL to access Mark Zuckerberg’s profile
Do you want to know which are the first Facebook accounts ever created? Nothing could be simpler, add the number corresponding to the end of http://www.facebook.com. So :
4 leads to Mark Zuckerberg’s profile (the first 3 accounts ever created were tests and have been deleted)
5 and 6 lead respectively to the profiles of Chris Hugues and Dustin Moskovitz, co-founders of Facebook and former roommates of Zuckerberg at Harvard
7 leads to the profile of Arie Hasit, great friend of Zuckerberg at the time of Harvard
11 leads to the designer of the “Like” button (now employed at Dropbox)
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And you, do you know any other incredible and unusual information about Facebook? Do not hesitate to share them with us!
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