10 Most Shocking Facts About Facebook

"Blue is the richest color for me. I can see all of blue," Zuckerberg told in an interview with New Yorker reporter Jose Antonio Vargas. Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind, so blue is the easiest color for him to see. Additionally, Facebook has always been pretty monochromatic since from the beginning he has wanted the site to remain as simple as possible. But this didn’t prevent it from being world’s largest social networking site with over a billion users. (Source: Washington Post)

Over 25 percent of users have already been dumped via Facebook. In June 2010, a survey of 1,000 Facebook users, 70 percent of whom were male, found that 25 percent had been "dumped" via Facebook. And twenty-one percent of those surveyed said they would end a relationship by changing their Facebook relationship statuses to "single." It is too shocking how easy a platform the Facebook has become where you can dump someone by just changing your relationship status from ‘committed’ to ‘single.’ (Source: ODDEE)

In 2011, Iceland finally took on the task of rewriting its constitution after following Danish constitution by making minor changes. In the process government took help of the most popular social media in the country: Facebook (The other social medias like Twitter, Flickr and YouTube were also used). Two thirds of Iceland's population (approximately 320,000) is on Facebook, so the constitutional council used Facebook to rewrite its constitution where citizens could use the social network to make their own suggestions, engage in online debates, or follow the proceedings in real-time. (Source:ZDNet)

When you hit a Graph Search button for a porn star, there is a greater chance that the search directing you to the stars Facebook page. About 83 percent of the prostitutes have Facebook pages according to Columbia University sociology professor Sudhir Venkatesh. He said that the social giant has become an alternate and fitted option for prostitutes after Craigslist got rid of the “adult services” category. It is found that only one out of every four prostitutes get regular clients from Facebook in 2008, while escort agencies provided about 31 percent

Facebook is getting infamous as a marriage killer- about one in five American divorces now involve Facebook, according to a new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Facebook was by far the biggest offender, with 66 per cent of lawyers citing it as the primary source of evidence in a divorce case.

This bizarre crime happened in Tennessee, USA. A couple named Billy Clay Payne Jr. and Billie Jean Hayworth one’s decided to de-friend a woman, named Jenelle Porter. But it did not go down well with Jenelle’s father, who retaliated the act by killing both the couple sparing their 8 months old baby. Then there was also a similar case where a man hit his wife for not “Liking” his Facebook post about his mother’s death and a woman set a friend's garage on fire. (Source: OMG FACTS)

If you add number 4 to the end of Facebook’s URL, it will automatically direct you to its founder’s wall page. Why Zuckerberg chose 4 instead of 1 is unknown but if you add the numerals like 5 and 6, it will direct you to the other co-founders, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. Tacking a 7 onto the web address leads to the profile of Arie Hasit, another good friend of Zuckerberg from his days at Harvard. To see the first few registered profiles of other Facebook employees, you can try out other numbers. (Source: WoWNesia)

If you can hack Facebook you may end up making $500. “If you believe you have found a security vulnerability on Facebook, we encourage you to let us know right away. We will investigate all legitimate reports and do our best to quickly fix the problem,” states Facebook page on information.

An American psychologist believes that FAD, or Facebook Addiction Disorder, is a condition that is defined by hours spent on Facebook, so much time in fact that the healthy balance of the individual’s life is affected. It has been said that approximately 350 million people are suffering from the disorder. (Source: Social Times)

If you are a long term Facebook user, than you would have come across a sad-looking blue guy on Facebook's homepage who used to stare you down every time you went to log in. They did away with him in 2007; anyway according to David Kirkpatrick's The Facebook Effect , it turns out that that guy in the logo, created by Zuckerberg's friend and classmate Andrew McCollum, was none other than a young Al Pacino