Facebook, a major social networking site, is celebrating its 20th anniversary, which was introduced by a few friends in a college room.
Mark Zuckerberg and a few of his friends founded the American social networking website Facebook 20 years ago with the aim of connecting people online and making money from advertising.
British Broadcasting Corporation The BBC According to the report, the world’s most popular social network has been redesigned dozens of times since its inception, this website changed the world in 4 ways.
The social media network was named after a student directory created at the start of the university academic year called Facebook.
In the same year, Internet search engine Yahoo unsuccessfully tried to buy Facebook for one billion dollars.
Other social networks, including MySpace, existed before Facebook, but Mark Zuckerberg’s site took off quickly after its launch in 2004, and in less than a year it had 10 million users worldwide. .
It had far surpassed MySpace within 4 years with other innovations including tagging people in photos. This social network became very popular and was soon used in educational institutions across the United States.
Within a year the number of users of this platform reached one million and in August 2005 it was renamed as Facebook.com.
Over the next few years, Facebook became used by people around the world and became the world’s largest social media network, with more than 3 billion monthly users in 2024.
It is true that Facebook is not as popular among the youth as it used to be, but it is still the most used social media platform in the world.
Some people call Facebook and its rival companies a means of increasing communication, while others call it a waste product.
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