Why Facebook is Blue in Color? 10 Facts about Mark Zuckerberg(FB founder)

Why Facebook is Blue in Color?

When you open Facebook, the first thing that you notice is the blue color it uses. Ever wondered why is Facebook so blue in color and not changing its color scheme?

Ever since they started as 'thefacebook', Facebook has stayed with the blue color. Although major changes have been made in the Facebook theme since then, the major unchanged thing has been the blue color.

Facebook from its early days when it was known as  thefacebook

An exciting fact: In its earlier days, thefacebook.com required you to have an  .edu email id to join.

Everywhere from its login page to Facebook groups, you find only blue.

Facebook Login Page. All Blue!

The reason for this is that  Mark Zuckerberg, the young founder of Facebook is red-green color-blind and blue is the richest colour for him which he confirmed in an online interview with Leo Laporte.

Another important commercial factor for using blue color is the fact that most colors tend to distract the viewers. Blue on the other hand acts as a transparent background to the main content as visible to the human brain due to which most popular websites tend to use the blue color. It can easily be called a webmaster's favorite color. Blue color is also sometimes referred to as 'Nirvana' for the brain.

All these factors make blue a prominent color on Facebook.

As we all know who Mark Zuckerberg is? He is CEO of the great social networking website Facebook. Some people say he is color blind that is why facebook primary color is blue. Yeah this is true fact. You can read top 10 facts about facebook in this post. Now I will 
 share top 10 facts about Mark Zuckerberg in this post.



 

#1 .

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t own a television. He says that he has no time for TV.

#2.

Mark Zuckerberg is multilingual. He can read & write five different languages i.e. English, French, Latin, Hebrew & Ancient Greek.

#3.

Mark Zukerberg is color blind. He has red-green blindness. I think this is why blue is the primary color of Facebook.

#4.

In 1996, Mark Zuckerberg created an instant messenger ZUCKNET which was used by Mark’s family to communicate with each other.

#5.

Mark Zuckerberg thinks 4 as his lucky number because Mark Zuckerberg born on 14th May 1984 , also launched Facebook on  4th Feb, 2004, also have 4th userid on facebook. i.e. fb.com/4

#6.

Mark Zuckerberg is youngest billionaire in the world.

#7.

Mark Zuckerberg is College Dropper. While in high school, Zuckerberg co-developed a music app called Synapse Media Player. Tech giants Microsoft and AOL reportedly offered Zuckerberg a million dollars to further develop the app as well as wanted to hire him. Zuckerberg instead chose to join Harvard University.

#8.

To be able to communicate with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan’s family members, Zuckerberg started to learn Chinese in 2010.

#9.

Mark Zuckerberg’s interest in programming developed when his parents gifted him the book C++ for Dummies.

#10.

In October 2010, Zuckerberg took a bunch of Facebook staffers to a public theater to see “The Social Network,” the movie about the founding of Facebook.