1. Hot or not - Facebook as Tinder-pioneer
Facebook in its current Form has existed since 2004. But before that, it was a slightly different social network:
- Mark Zuckerberg founded while studying the website "facemash.com", the predecessor of Facebook. Here he presented photos of students on the Internet. Any visitors were then shown two randomly selected women, from the user, the more attractive you should choose.
- Since Zuckerberg introduced the photos without the permission of his fellow students into the network was the "first Facebook Version of" only a few days open to the public. In the spring of 2004, the psychology Student, therefore, he called the website as a social network back to life.
- The success came quickly: by 2008 Facebook had 100 million active users in the second quarter of 2015, a whopping 1.44 billion people regularly for around 40 minutes per day. In the first quarter of 2018, the social network recorded a total of 2,2 billion users, of which 1.4 billion use the Service each day.
- The global quota for women among the active users is approximately 49 percent. Very strange: In December 2011, more people have viewed Monaco as the total number of all the inhabitants of the country from there, your own Facebook page.
So Facebook did not always (image: Screenshot)
2. Red-and-Green against Blue - the colors of the Facebook logo
A blue square with the white letter "F" - the Facebook-Logo has changed little over the years. But why the color Blue? With random, the choice has nothing to do with it:
- In an Online Test, Mark Zuckerberg had found before establishing that he has a Red-Green weakness. This was told by the developer once in an Interview.
- There he can blue best, he chose this as the main color for the social network.
White and Blue Facebook colors (image: Facebook)
3. Mark Zuckerberg: From starvation wages and private jets
The Mark Zuckerberg to a Red-Green-weakness suffers, is well known. But there are other curious info about the Facebook CEO:
- So Zuckerberg doesn't fly with normal lines, and planes, but with a specially chartered machines in the holiday. The company Facebook is for the cost of petrol and Catering. In 2012, these costs amounted to a whopping $ 1.2 million. Safety is the Facebook boss appears to be much value.
- In the process, Zuckerberg gives his salary is very modest: Since 2013, only receives a salary of one Dollar. Prior to that, there were around 500,000 dollars a year. The Arm of the man is not but still, Its shares-shares in Facebook are worth a lot. So he sold in December of 2013, approximately 41 million shares for $ 2.3 billion. Up-to-date, it is estimated the total assets to 76.7 billion dollars.
Curious about the Facebook founder (image: Screenshot)
4. Rich, rich, Facebook - the network in the financial check
That the stock would one day shoot through the ceiling, it was not clear from the beginning: As Facebook the 18. In may 2012 they went to the stock exchange, the share price fell in the first week of 38 to around 33 dollars. As a result, about 14 billion dollars were lost to the company.
- Since then, the group almost only uphill. By the end of 2014 was Facebook already about $ 200 billion in value. Currently, the value is likely to be much higher, after all, the company made only in the year of 2017, proud of 40.7 billion dollars in profits.
- But that's not enough: In the same year bought Facebook the Messenger app WhatsApp for approximately 19 billion dollars. The value of the Messenger service, but should still be significantly higher.
- As Facebook users for free is pushing quickly to the question of how the network actually, so much money earned.
6. What Facebook knows about me?
Away from the many successes, there are also Facebook some shadow sides. The Internet giant is because of its data protection in the criticism. But what Facebook really know about its users?
- You can easily find out for yourself by having your data stored at Facebook request. This works even if you are not registered. The social network has, in fact, hoarded still by friends or relatives some of the information.
- In addition, you will learn on this bottom of Facebook, which data the network for a total of over stores. Anyone have more detailed information on the data octopus is looking on a special Chrome extension to draw.
Activity Log in Facebook (image: Screenshot)
7. Cool Tricks on Facebook
In addition to the hidden Easter eggs to discover in the Facebook a lot more. With our Tricks, you will bypass, for example, Zuckerberg's Red-Green-weakness and know who has viewed your profile:
- With a little Practice, you can use the Facebook Design change or even a custom Layout that you create.
- Every day, countless users click on your personal Facebook page. In another article we tell you whether you can get the site visitors identify can.
- How do you know if you are on Facebook blocked were on one of our practical tips. In addition, we have for you nine hidden features of Facebook to identify.
New Facebook Design (Image: Screenshot)
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