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Until now, there has not been any one social network that is able to exceed it owned the acquisition of Facebook users. Many unique features and facilities as well as appealing to pamper disbursed by Facebook users.
However, there is one question, why Facebook is more dominated by the color blue, in addition to a white background?
It turns out that makes Mark Zuckerberg decided to use blue as the dominant color in the artificial site because he was color blind.
As quoted from newyorker (09/2010), when he underwent eye test, he found that his difficulties to see the red and green color combination. He can only see the blue color only.
Therefore, he thinks that the color blue is dynamic and can be applied to almost any color.
Moreover, according to the writing on the Fast Company (06/05), according to the study, the most preferred color either by women or men are blue.
Blue indicates a color that seemed calmer and more able to 'show themselves' when meeting with other colors. Even to underline or link a URL on the internet, which is commonly encountered colors are blue majority.
Therefore, the question of why blue became the dominant color in Facebook, the answer is because Zuck and blue color blindness is more dominant compared to the dynamic as well as other colors.