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Facebook Celebrates Turning 12 Today (cnbc.com)
12 years ago today, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, and since then the site has grown at a nearly unbelievable pace. Now, with about 1.6 billion monthly active users, Facebook makes an average of $3.73 in revenue per user worldwide. And as the company continues to grow, engagement is only getting higher. According to an analysis by CNBC, users spend an aggregate of 10.5 billion minutes per day on the social media platform -- that's around $3.5 trillion in squandered productivity, by their estimate. Facebook is celebrating its birthday by marking today "Friends Day" and adding personalized videos to each user's account showing their best moments with friends, or at least what Facebook's algorithms think are the best moments. (Users can opt to share the video or keep it private.) The company's also announced an updated degrees-of-separation metric to make it easier to connect with other users.
People still use Facebook? How quaint!
At 18 you can kick them out, but if you let them get a BA degree in Afrikaans Translations of Shakespeare, they're going to end up back on your couch.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Only reason I have an account is to communicate with companies that don't have their own login system.
I'm on my second account now my first one was locked.
Apparently I fell awry of their real name policy. For some reason they didn't believe my name was ikate facebork.
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
You're welcome!
That means that next year, Facebook will be old enough to get a Facebook account, and the entire Facebook computing infrastructure will disappear in a burst of recursion...
I agree.