“Facebook” has become an integral part of most of our lives today. It is a mandatory act that has to be followed just like waking up and brushing your teeth. People feel low when they are unable to access their Facebook pages for various reasons like no bandwidth, faulty computer etc. Checking out other peoples posts and posting reply’s on your wall is like an involuntary reaction now days. This social networking website has become a physical reality, where people can express their emotions like joy, guilt, sadness, envy, love, hate and much, much more. Thus it holds in its folds, many a clandestine facts, here are 5 of the most shocking facts about our beloved social media website – FACEBOOK.

#5 Facebook – Why so blue? 

“Blue is the richest color for me. I can see all of blue,” Mark Zuckerberg told a New York reporter. Mark Zuckerberg is color blind to red and green so blue is the easiest color for him to decipher. Moreover, Facebook has always been very simple and monochromic from the beginning as Mark always wanted his website to be sober and remain as simple as possible.

#4 Iceland rewrote its constitution with the help of Facebook

In the year 2011, Iceland took the daring initiative of rewriting its own constitution subsequent change in Danish constitution by making minimal changes. In this process, the government of Iceland took the help of the most successful media platform in History – “Facebook”.

More than 2/3rd of Iceland’s population is on Facebook. So the council of constitution used Facebook to make changes in its constitution so that citizens of the country could make suggestions, participate in online debates and see the real-time procedures in the process.

#3 More than 80% prostitutes have Facebook profiles

In a research conducted by a professor from Columbia University, Sudhir Venkatesh, he claims that more than 80% of prostitutes in the world are using Facebook as a platform for communication and finding new clients. The professor further states that after Craigslist removed its “adult services” category, Facebook have been the next hibernation point for all prostitutes worldwide.

#2 Add number “4” to the end of any Facebook URL and see the magic

Yes! You will reach the wall of founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. If you add 4 to any Facebook URL you will be automatically redirected to Zuckerberg’s wall. Though we do not have any idea why Mark took No.4 instead of 1, but he is still the best and forever will be. If you add other numbers to the end of a Facebook URL you will be redirected to the pages of other important people behind Facebook.

#1 Facebook, a place to break up?

In a study conducted recently, 25% of the users had a breakup due to Facebook. Though you may have found your soul mate through the best social media website, but it still poses an imbalanced threat to the relationship status of many a couples. Back in June 2010, there was a survey conducted among 1000 Facebook users out of which 70% were male. This survey stated that 25% of the Facebook populace was actually dumped on Facebook. Another 21% claimed to have found out they had broken up by a simple change in relationship status gesture by their partners.