Unless you are coming from Mars, you must
have heard or even created a Facebook
account to socialize with friends and family.
We all owe this to a young billionaire/
entrepreneur who is currently the CEO of
Facebook Inc, Mark Zuckerburg.
Here are some interesting yet little known
facts you probably never knew about the 30
year old Social Network “Hero”.

1. Where you wondering why blue was the
choice color for Facebook? Well, Mark is red
and green color blind. Meaning he sees more
of blue than any other color. He once
reportedly said to ABC News, “Blue is the
richest color for me. I can see all of blue.”

2. He got job offers when he was still in high
school from both AOL and Microsoft after he
created Synapse, a program that used
artificial intelligence to learn users’ music-
listening habits.

3. Mark Zuckerberg’s interest in
programming was actually triggered by his
parents after they gifted him the book C++
for Dummies.

4. He invented Facemash in 2003. A
program that he created for finding out who
the most attractive person on campus was,
and that was a year before creating
facebook. The domain Facemash.com was
later sold in 2010 for $30201
.
5. You can’t block Mark on facebook.

6. He started Facebook with the domain
TheFacebook.com on February 4th, 2004. It
was actually meant for university grads back
then, but was thrown open to the public in
2006.

7. In Facebook’s early days, Mark used to
hand out a business card that read “I’m CEO
B***h”.

8. He owns a Hungarian sheepdog named
Beast, who has a Facebook page with 1.5
million fans.

9. When Mark applied into Harvard
University, he listed French, Hebrew, Latin,
and ancient Greek as languages he could
read and write.

10. Mark started learning Mandarin-Chinese
in 2010 to be able to communicate with his
girl friend’s (Chan) family since they were
Chinese.

11. He got married to Chan on May 19, 2012
in the backyard of the newlyweds’ Palo Alto,
Calif., home.

12. By July 2011, Zuckerberg became the
most-followed user on Google’s social
network Google+, overtaking Google co-
founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

13. You can find Mark on Twitter @finkd with
over 300K followers as at time of post and
just 19 tweets.

14. Zuckerberg considers himself an atheist.

15. He has remained a Vegetarian since
2011.

16. His favorite musicians include Daft Punk,
Lady Gaga, Shakira and Rihanna.

17. He became the world’s youngest
billionaire at the age of 23 in 2008 according
to a Forbes estimate. Then, he was ranked
785 on the World’s Billionaires list.

18. His full name is Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
and he was born on May 14, 1984, in White
Plains, New York into a comfortable, well-
educated family.

What other facts do you know about Mark?
Please do share in the comment section.

I now know better