As we all know, Facebook is a giant social media platform where every day, millions of users use this platform. However, there are some facts about Facebook, which we don't know. Here are the 20 interesting facts about Facebook that you should know if you are the Facebook user.
1. When Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004, he launched it only for the only for Harvard University students. One thousand two hundred of Harvard university students joined this platform on its first day of launch. Later it spreads to different universities, and more and more students joined this platform.
2. Initially, the Facebook domain name is used to be 'thefacebook.com.' The following next year, on 23 august 2005, Mark Zuckerberg change the domain name to Facebook.com, which cost him $200,000.
3. Facebook supports mostly all languages. In addition, Facebook supports two languages that you might not have heard.
- English Pirate: This language option is used by the pirates.
- Upside down: When you click on this language, all the letters on Facebook. It turns letters into a downwards direction. Try it for fun.
4. The most popular figure in facebook is Cristiano Ronaldo having followers 125 million, followed by Shakira having followers 105 million, followed by Vin Diesel 101 million followers.
5. The blue color Facebook icon we see every day, but there is also one type of color Facebook icon exists. The yellow color Facebook icon is only used by the employees of Facebook. The employees of Facebook used it for testing purposes.
6. Facebook users, on average, having 155 Friends on Facebook.
7. 1.5 lakh messages send on Facebook, 5 lakh Likes clicked by the user, 30 Lakh post submitted on Facebook in just one minute.
8. 6 Lakh hacking attacks happen on Facebook every day.
9. An average user spends 40 minutes of his or her whole day browsing Facebook.
10. Smartphones user check their Facebook account 14 times a day.
11. Some murders happened in real life due to some Facebook users unfriend another user.
12. There are approximately 30 million people on Facebook, who are no more among us.
13. Facebook has some GPS system in its site, which tracks you down, which sites you have visited after you sign out from Facebook.
14. Facebook is banned in china since 2009.
15. 1 in every three people feels unsatisfied after logging out from Facebook.
16. Barack Obama's photo with his wife got 45 lakh likes after he won the presidential election In 2012.
17. Al Pacino was the first face on Facebook. His face is covered behind the binary numbers, but later it found out that the face is the popular actor Al Pacino.
18. Co-founder of Paypal, Peter Thiel, with the first investor who invested $500,000 on Facebook.
19. Previously the 'Like' button of Facebook is used to be the 'Awesome' button, but Mark Zuckerberg change it to the 'Like' button in 2007.
20. Facebook has vast servers that are storing approximately 300 Petabytes of its user data on its servers. One million gigabytes can be easily fit in 1 petabyte if we store all the written documents in all languages in a big computer since the world began. It hardly takes 50 PetaBytes, but Facebook alone store 300 PetaBytes since it's evolution.
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