Twelve years and a hoard of almost 1.6 billion “friends.” These are the numbers of Facebook that was launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow students at Harvard Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. To celebrate the birthday of the social network is a tribute to the community who has everything and start the #friendsday, the day of friends. With the hope that always increase: the goal is to reach 5 billion users by 2030.
it WAS 2004 “When I wrote the first code of Facebook, in January 2004, I am hoping to help students of my college to connect. Today we celebrate the friendship that has made a difference in our lives, “said Mark Zuckerberg. And to explain the spirit of the initiative, the founder of the platform placed on his profile the story of Muriel, an American lady who in the sixties has raised three children orphaned, then he lost sight of them and was able to find them via Facebook .
Another initiative linked to #friendsday is the ability for all users to dial in a short video and through postcards special moments shared with friends. The company has also calculated that in time the degrees of separation between two people on Facebook have decreased from 3.74 degrees in 2011 to the current 3:57 degrees. “This figure – writes the company – significantly reflects how the world has become closely linked.”
FROM HARVARD A WhatsApp Facebook was originally designed only for students of Harvard University but he was soon expanded to other schools then have the global reach that we know. Open with only one thousand US dollars investment, the platform has grown over the years its value exponentially. Just a few days ago, after a quarterly record, Facebook was decreed the fourth company that is worth more to the world, even surpassing ExxonMobil. A success achieved thanks to the intensification of its strategy ‘mobile’ and well-aimed acquisitions, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, chat that has reached 1 billion users. And thanks to the skill of marketing and Zuckerberg policy, which takes on his profile positions on vaccines with her daughter two months Max and invites you to make donations to refugees. Or bans arms sales between private individuals, ideally responding to an appeal of Barack Obama.
WHAT’S ‘ROUND THE CORNER In the future there is the reality of Facebook virtual and the artificial intelligence but especially the desire to extend the web in the developing countries (and consequently their users) thanks to Internet.org project. According to USA Today, a few days ago during a public event, Mark Zuckerberg would announce an ambitious goal: to reach 5 billion users by 2030. According to the data of May 2015 ITU, the UN agency, at the time they network access 3.2 billion people in the world.
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