Facebook Facts

Facebook pays at least $500 if you can find a way to hack the site.

Over 350 million people worldwide meet research criteria for Facebook addiction, a behavioral pattern studied by psychologists but not yet recognized as an official mental health disorder.

Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is color-blind and best sees the shade of blue.

A computer programmer named Maneesh Sethi hired a woman to slap him across the face every time he uses Facebook during working hours.

A woman in Britain was sentenced to 20 months in jail for creating fake Facebook profiles and trolling herself.

You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.

In 2011, more than a third of all US divorce filings contained the word 'Facebook'.

In 2012, Walmart ran a Facebook contest to send Pitbull to the store with the most votes. The internet hijacked it and voted for a tiny Walmart in Kodiak, Alaska — a remote island only reachable by plane or boat. Everyone expected him to back out. He didn’t. He flew to Alaska, performed for the whole town, took photos with fans, and called it "the greatest thing ever."