Little known Facebook facts

Here are some some facts that you might not have known about the popular social networking site Facebook.

1.Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerburg is colorblind

Mark Zuckerburg is red and green colorblind, so when he  founded Facebook  he choose blue  because it was the only best color he could see.This fact was revealed by Zuckerburg  himself in a television interview.

2.Facebook  became the worlds popular social networking site in 2008

Facebook overtook Myspace in April 2008 to become the most popular social networking site in the world.From 2005 till 2008 Myspace was the most popular social networking site in the world ,

3.Al Pachino's face was featured in the Facebook homepage

The image of a man that was seen in the Facebook  homepage  till 2007 covered  by  a fog binary digits was actually Al Pachino .The Facebook cover featuring him was designed by Andrew McCollum  a  classmate  of  Mark Zuckerburg.

4.One early function on Facebook was  that of a file sharing service.

One of the early integral feature that was on Facebook was a file sharing service called Wirehog. This service was discontinued in 2006.