World's most popular social networking site Facebook completed 10 years of success on 4 February 2014. Mark Zuckerberg and some of his fellows from Harvard University registered "thefacebook.com" as a domain and on 4 February 2004, launched Facebook as a Harvard-only social network, further they expand Facebook for other universities also. In the 10, years a lot have changed like number of users, income, employees and Mark Zuckerberg also.
Facebook login page in February 2004 and in February 2014
According to survey, the social networking site present in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and South America to cover a large number of users and figures shows 1.20 billion people visits the site on a monthly basis and keeps increasing. In first decade, Facebook has covered users from all over the world and encourage them to share thoughts, photos and communicate with friends.
On February 1, 2012, Facebook applied for a US$5 billion Initial Public Offering(IPO); one of the biggest in the history of technology and the biggest in the Internet history.
Facebook facts:
- 1.20 billion monthly active users
- 945 million active mobile users
- 6 billion likes per day
- 400 billion photos shared per day
- 201.6 billion friend connections
- 7.8 trilion number of message sent
- 6,337 employees worldwide
- Revenue $153 billion(market cap as of Jan 31)
"Facebook was started not just to be a company, but to fulfill a vision of connecting world."
Post by Mark Zuckerberg.
Once again, a heartiest congratulation to Facebook on completion of 10 years in the social network.
