Mark Zuckerberg launched his novel Facebook at Harvard University on February 4, 2004. We look back at more than a decade of existence.
It is increasingly rare to come across someone who does not have Facebook. Thousands of people around the world are literally hooked on Facebook. They publish their status continuously, they upload photos of everything they do practically at the moment, the songs they are listening to, and so on. And while some scientists have already raised the alarm about the consequences of the excessive use of social networks, the data of the gigantic social network continues to rise like foam.
On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and co-founders Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin and Dustin Moskovitz launched Facebook at Harvard University.
In December 2004, in less than a year, Facebook reached one million users.
In October 2005, Facebook expands to the old continent and begins to add international university networks.
In April 2006, Facebook was launched for mobile devices.
In September 2006, Facebook considered the flow of news among its users to be of special importance and launched the News section.
In April 2008 the social network launched its own chat, allowing direct conversation from within the platform.
In July 2008, Facebook launched the iPhone application and opened the market to all users of apple devices in a faster and easier way.
Although it seems like it has been there for a lifetime, the “Like” button wasn’t born until February 2009.
In July 2010 Facebook reached 500 million users worldwide.
In October 2012, the social network reached 1 billion active users worldwide, and today its growth continues unstoppable.
201.6 billion connections between friends have been created since its inception 10 years ago.
7.8 billion messages have been sent from Facebook since the beginning of 2012, that is, in just over two years.
1.23 billion active users existed at the end of 2013.
More than 6,000 million “Likes” on average per day.
Approximately 81% of users who use Facebook on a daily basis are from outside of Canada and the United States.
77.2 billion posts tagged by location have been executed.
There were more than 25 million pages of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in November 2013.
Facebook employed 6,337 people in December 2013.
More than 400,000 million photos have been shared on this social network since October 2005.
Some 945 million users use Facebook mobile products each month.
