Fact Behind Facebook

10 Amazing Facebook Facts That You didn't know 

Facebook is the world most popular social media site. But it has a fascinating story. Here are the 10 amazing facts about Facebook that will prove just how remarkable the site really is and may offer a glimpse of what we can expect from Zuckerberg and his team in Menlo Park in the future.

1. Al Pacino was the first “face” on Facebook:

A very early iteration of the site displayed a header image featuring a man’s face obscured behind binary code. The identity of the man could not be seen clearly, but it later came to light that the face was that of acclaimed actor Al Pacino.

2. A peer-to-peer file-sharing system called Wirehog was once a core function of Facebook:

Mark Zuckerberg introduced the P2P file-sharing system when facebook.com reached approximately 500,000 users, and once believed it would become a central component of the site. Wirehog was retired over fears of potential legal repercussions of copyright infringement in 2006.

3. Mark Zuckerberg suffers from red-green colorblindness:

This is why Facebook’s primary color scheme is blue – although it certainly doesn’t hurt that blue is also strongly associated with trust and security, two concepts essential in getting people to voluntarily part with their personal information.

4. Facebook’s ‘Like’ button used to be the ‘Awesome’ button:

Facebook engineer Andrew Bosworth said that he and other engineers were enthusiastic about the “Awesome” button, but that the idea was ultimately vetoed by Zuckerberg in 2007. The site eventually settled on the “Like” button, a decision that Bosworth said was met with a decidedly lukewarm reception.

5. Facebook stores approximately 300 PETABYTES of user data on its servers:

There are 1 million gigabytes in a petabyte. The entire written works of humankind, in every known language (including Latin and other historical languages) from the dawn of recorded history, would occupy approximately 50 petabytes. Think about that for a minute.

6. In 2014, the alleged global economic impact of Facebook was approximately $227 billion:

However, this statistic (and the methodology behind it) has been called in question by several leading economists. Whether you buy Facebook’s data or not, there’s no doubt that Facebook has had a serious impact on economies around the world.

7. Facebook’s user base grows by eight people per second, or 7,246 people every 15 minutes:

Some naysayers have foretold of Facebook’s impending demise, but aside from boasting the largest user base of any social network in the world by a gigantic margin, this statistic proves Facebook is still growing.

8. In September 2014, Facebook users watched a collective 1 billion videos per day:

Today, that figure is more than 4 billion – and 75% of these video views occur on mobile devices.

9. Videos are the most-shared content type on Facebook:

On average, videos receive 89.5 shares per video, significantly higher share counts than photos or text-based posts.

10. Posts published between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. EST receive approximately 88% more interactions on average than posts published at other times of the day:

Also, ending posts with a question lifts interactions with those posts by an average of 162%.