Whether you admit it or not but you can't avert yourself from using the Facebook. This social media giant is dominating in every sphere of the Internet, from the east to the west. It is one of the most popular social networking websites used by the millions of people around the world. Even, almost 30% of the American adults receive the News from the Facebook.
There are many fascinating things about the world's popular social media platform that you might not have come to know until now. Facebook has many things to be revealed to a common user as most users aren't aware of them. So, apart from trivia tidbits that could amaze you, here are 21 amazing facts about Facebook that you may love about this social media giant. As well as, many of them provide you a glimpse of what one can hope from Mark Zuckerberg and his excellent team in the future.
1. First people to create Facebook profile
When Facebook was started, every person who created a profile on Facebook was given an ID code like #1, #4 etc. Though the ID code began with #0, but ID 1-3 were probably tested which were created and deleted, which no longer exist. First Facebook profile starts with ID #4. The first few people who created a profile on Facebook were Harvard students of whom some were roommates of Mark who helped him launch the website and some shared classes with him. And the first woman to sign up the Facebook was Sarah Goodin, at ID #33.
2. The first “face” on Facebook was Al Pacino
Before the major redesign of Facebook back in 2007, the front page of Facebook used to display a man's face obscured at the back of binary code. So, in a very early version of the Facebook website, a header image was shown that bore a man’s face unclear behind the binary code. At that time it wasn't possible to clearly identify the first face on the Facebook, but later it came to be known that the person was well-known actor Al Pacino.
3. P2P File sharing was an early feature of Facebook
You can't find it in the official timeline on Facebook, but earlier Facebook had an add-on used for friend-to-friend or technically peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing service which was known as Wirehog. The service was developed side by side the Facebook by Zuckerberg and his team. This feature was launched in 2004 and was planned to provide as an integral FB feature. Although Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg expected to grow it at the same pace as Facebook, but probably because of piracy concerns, Wirehog was shut down in 2006.
4. Mark Zuckerberg can't differentiate between red-green colors
Because Zuckerberg suffers from red-green color blindness, this is the reason why main color scheme on Facebook is blue. Also, the blue color is strongly associated with security and trust, these two concepts are significant to get people to be part of Facebook on their own with personal information.
5. Earlier “Like” button on Facebook was labeled as “Awesome”
Probably, most of the people don't know but Facebook's “Like” button started out its life as “Awesome” button. Facebook's engineer, Andrew Bosworth, in a post on Quora told that he and many other engineers were excited about this “Awesome” button, but the idea was dropped by Zuckerberg in the year 2007. And eventually, the decision was finalized for the “Like” button. Apart from this, other ideas that were tossed aside during the redesign process of the website include star and a plus/minus sign.
6. The user base of Facebook increases by eight people a second or almost 7,246 people per 15 minutes
Several pessimists have made forecasts of Facebook’s proximate demise, but beside boasting the enormous user base of any existing social networking site in the world by a large margin, this data proves that Facebook is still experiencing the growth.
7. Facebook has the capacity of storing approx. 300 Peta-bytes of user information on its server
A petabyte equals to one million Gigabytes, an enormous amount of information. Even all the written works of humankind, in all known languages (along with Latin and other historical languages) from the very beginning of recorded history would take approx. 50 petabytes. So, it's really very huge data capacity.
8. PayPal's Co-founder, Peter Thiel, was the first key investor to financially support Facebook
Thiel, one of the luminaries in the venture capital and startup world, found the potential in the website and in the year 2004, invested $500,000 into the company. Later, Thiel sold out his stake in that company for over $1 billion.
9. Today above 2 million advertisers are there and active on Facebook
Facebook has become the legendary online advertising hub in the world, because of the impact, popularity, and cost-effectiveness of the ads placed on Facebook. Now most advertisers prefer to place ads on Facebook as it has a vast reach of audiences.
10. Any posts that are published between 10 pm. - 11 pm.
EST get almost 88% more user interactions on average as compared to the posts published on any other time of day Likewise, image posts get almost 179 percent more interactions than the average posts on Facebook. Also, posts that end with question marks also drive interaction as high as 162% as compared to the average posts.
11. In Sept 2014, the users on Facebook watched total 1 billion videos a day
However, today that data figure crosses 4 billion views, and therefore, presently the Facebook users watch over 4 billion videos a day. Also, 75% of such videos are watched on mobile devices.
12. On Facebook, videos are shared more than any other contents.
If we take an average of video-sharing then it accounts for 89.5 shares per video, which is significantly higher than the text or photo-based content sharing.
13. Posting only one or two times a day on Facebook drives almost 40% more user involvement on average than posting contents three or four times a day.
It implies that you can't employ a brute force to get the attention of the targeted audience.
Apart from these features, Facebook has also enhanced its support service to help users to get assistance for fixing common FB problems. So, the FB users can find instant help to fix any problems they face with their Facebook account with the help of Facebook's help center. However, sometimes, certain types of problems may require experts’ assistance, in that case by contacting Facebook Tech Support professionals, the users can find easy solutions to their problems.
