71. interesting but shocking facts about FACEBOOK

The reason Facebook is blue: Zuckerberg is colorblind

According to The New Yorker, Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind, which means the color he can see best is blue. That also happens to be the color that dominates the Facebook website and mobile app.

"Blue is the richest color for me," he told the magazine. "I can see all of blue," he said in an interview. 

Hacking Facebook got this man hired

In 2006, a guy named Chris Putnam hacked into Facebook and made thousands of profiles look like MySpace profiles. Facebook hired him.

The Facebook global numbers

Today there are nearly 1.4 billion users that are spread all around the world. It connects different cultures and allows us to share with family and friends in real time.

The USA and Canada is now just a sub-set of the Facebook global family.

• Asia Pacific is the largest at 449 million
• Europe has another 301 million.

The Facebook ecosystem

In the Facebook ecosystem there are apps and apps.  From messaging apps including WhatsApp and Messenger, to visual apps like Instagram and even Occulus. Occulus is the virtual reality technology that Facebook bought for $2 billion just over 12 months ago.

Their numbers are also large by any measure.

• Instagram with 300 million+ users
• WhatsApp with 700 million
• Facebook messenger has 600 million users

These three are still to be monetized with ads and the potential earnings of this Facebook ecosystem is staggering with $12.47 billion revenue alone just from Facebook in 2014.

So watch that space over the next 5-10 years.

The latest Facebook facts and statistics

Here are some fascinating numbers on a range of Facebook facts and metrics from mobile, revenue and a host of other facts to share in your presentations and wow your next dinner party guests.

1. Every second there are 20,000 people on Facebook. This means in just 18 minutes there are 11 million users on Facebook
2. On average there are 486,183 users a minute accessing Facebook from their mobile
3. 79% of all users are accessing Facebook from their mobile.
4. There are 745 million daily mobile users
5. Facebook is adding 7,246 people every 15 minutes or 8 per second
6. Every minute there are 150,000 messages sent
7. Every 15 minutes there are over 49 million posts. To be precise 49,433,000 or 3 million posts per minute
8. There are 100,000 friend requests every 10 minutes
9. There are 500,000 Facebook “likes” every minute
10. Facebook generates $1.4 million in revenue every hour
11. Nearly  73% of Facebook’s ad revenue comes from mobile advertising
12. Facebook earns $2.5 billion a quarter from mobile advertising
13. People share 1.3 million pieces of content on Facebook every minute of every day
14. In November of 2014the number of video uploads to Facebook exceeded YouTube video uploads according to Social Bakers
15. Facebook generated $12.47 billion in sales in 2014 (a rise of 58% year on year)
16. Photo uploads are 350 million per day
17. Users spend 21 minutes per day on average on Facebook
18. 31% of US senior citizens are on Facebook
19. 66% of all millennials (15-34 year olds) use Facebook
20. People spend 927 million hours a month playing Facebook games
21. There are 1 billion mobile app links enabled on FacebooK.