Facebook is our favorite and most loved means of information and entertainment ,and today it is celebrating its 13^th birthday. It first went live on February 4, 2004 and within its short online existence, Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm brainchild has fundamentally changed how people connect, consume and share content online.

Facebook has come a long way since its early days, with its focus now more than ever on video content. But despite many changes one thing remains the same: it continues to be the social network for staying connected to friends.

So celebrating this special day today let’s take a look to some of the interesting facts about Facebook:

#600,000 hacking attempts are made to Facebook accounts every day.

#Al Pacino was the first “face” on Facebook.

#Facebook is primarily blue because Mark Zuckerberg  suffers red-green color blindness.

#There are about 30 million dead people on Facebook.

#Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009.

#You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.

#The “Like” button on Facebook was originally going to be called “Awesome”.

#8.7% of Facebook users are fake.

#Mark Zuckerberg receives a US$ 1 salary as CEO of Facebook.

#Facebook has a feature that lets you designate who will manage your account after you die.

#Facebook has 95 million users in China despite being blocked.

Facebook offers 4 months of paid parental leave to new fathers who work for the company. One gram of your DNA could store all of Facebook and Google’s data.

#A “gaydar” software program developed at MIT can reportedly identify gay men on Facebook, private profile or not.

#You can change your language on Facebook to “Pirate.”

#There are, on average, 3.74 degrees of separation between any one Facebook user and another.

#1 in 3 people feels more dissatisfied with their lives after visiting Facebook, according to a study.

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