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Top 10 Lesser Known Facts About Facebook- The Top Ten Today


Facebook, the fastest growing company with more than 2.8 Billion accounts is also one website that gets the most traffic on internet after Google currently.

"The Facebook" as named earlier by Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook has many facts and trivia that are not known to many people.

 the social network

So here we are counting upon our list of Top 10 Lesser Known Facts About Facebook that you never knew. These amazing facts can enlighten you more about this company so you may buckle up as we're diving straight to the list.

#10. File Sharing Feature

 In its early years, Facebook has this peer to peer (between friends) file sharing feature called “Wirehog”. 

Through “Wirehog” any file could be shared between friends on Facebook. It was there till 2005 but in 2006 it was removed from Facebook due to piracy issues and only its photo sharing feature remained with Facebook.

#9. Ever Poked?

what poking is

Its actual meaning is not known, and even Zuckerberg kept it as a mystery. He says they thought it would be fun to introduce a feature with no specific purpose. People can mess around with it the way they like it.

#8. Fastest Growing Company

When Facebook began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ on May 18, 2012, its shares were priced at $38, which meant the company was valued at over $100 billion. 

It also meant that Facebook was worth more than eBay, Yahoo, Groupon, LinkedIn, Netflix, IAC, AOL, Zynga and Pandora… combined.

#7. How Much Time

The average person spends between 18 and 20 minutes viewing their Facebook account. If you combine every user, that what would be around 20 billion minutes!

#6. "Awesome" My Photo

 Originally, engineers wanted to call the “Like” button the “Awesome” button.

#5. Mark Zuckerberg Jobs

Mark Zuckerberg was approached by several companies with job offers (including AOL and Microsoft) before he even graduated high school, but Zuckerberg turned them all down.

#4. Easter Eggs

Adding /4 to the end of Facebook’s URL will automatically direct you to Mark Zuckerberg’s wall. There’s more! 

Adding 5 or 6 to the end of the URL will take you to the respective profiles of Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz, who are Facebook co-founders and Mark’s former college roommates. 

Try it facebook.com/4

#3. Why Blue

Mark is red-green color blind. In an interview, he said that Facebook is blue because he has red-green color blindness."Blue is the richest color for me. I can see all of blue,". 

Being color blind doesn't mean you see the world in black and white. But it does mean that you have difficulty distinguishing between certain colors. 

So for him blue color dominates more. Thus Facebook is blue in color.

#2. "Mark" This

 mark zuckerberg

Of course most of you know about Mark Zuckerberg, he was just in high school when AOL and Microsoft offered him a job. 

He is a Harvard dropout but still mentions himself as a Harvard’s graduate. He was just 19 when he started Facebook and at 30 he is one of the youngest billionaire who owns the fastest growing company.

#1. Al Pacino

al pacino 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.

There you have it, Top 10 Lesser Known Facts About Facebook that you should know.

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