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Welcome to Facebook
TheFacebook.com was born as a space for Harvard University students to upload their profile and interact with fellow students on campus, rapidly expanding to Stanford, Columbia and Yale. -
Upgrade
By May 1, 2005, The Facebook was already present in more than 800 university networks and had many options that we can still find in our profiles today, although its design was very similar to MySpace, back then the closest thing to a social network. -
Profile picture
During this year the profile picture began to gain prominence and the source with which the page was programmed was more pleasing to the eye. -
Feeds and timelines
A major change in Facebook's evolution came this year with the inclusion in the platform's design of a feed or timeline that allowed the activity of friends added directly to the profile to be seen. It was not until this year, weeks after this important change, that Facebook welcomed any user who had an email, whether they were a university student or not. -
Menus
During the summer of this year, Facebook had another great change in terms of the visual part, this installment included a "cleaner" menu bar at the top, as well as the separation of the activity of other users in profiles. -
More variety
The arrival of a new home page that allowed to publish videos, links and photos, as well as the option of being able to write a publication without having to access the profile, would take place in March 2009, when Mark Zuckerberg announced the changes to the world. -
More changes
The platform underwent a makeover this year in which the most striking was the series of photographs that were located at the top of the page. The possibility of including the activity produced off the platform, that is, the check-ins to the different places that a user attended, was also added. -
Biographies
A revamped interface was introduced by Zuckerberg during the developer conference that year. This is the profile we know today that is characterized by a large cover image and a new way of viewing publications chronologically. -
More images
The importance of images increases this year with the launch of a new viewer that shows them much larger and where the ads move to the right side. -
Update
In March of this year, the users' profile was updated, going back to a single column, and improvements were also added to make the applications appear in a more orderly manner. -
Memories
This year would mark the return of "places" that allow users to discover nearby sites of interest. They also highlighted the thank you videos that Facebook automatically generated to share with friends. -
Live videos
Live broadcasts were included in August of this year for a small number of users, but it would be until January 2016 that the function arrived for everyone. -
Not only likes, but more emotions!
In addition to the live broadcasts for all users, this year, during January, the “reactions” were also presented, which now allowed users not only to “like” but also to express surprise, laughter, anger, sadness and “ I love it". Facebook Marketplace, a specialized tool for buying and selling used products between individuals, also arrived. -
One of the most innovating updates
In November of this year, and after years of avoiding pre-ads for video content, Facebook announced the arrival of pre-roll ads in search of new ways to monetize its video creators. This year also comes the surveys, the possibility of adding GIFs to comments and responses and Facebook Stories. -
algorithm
Earlier this year Zuckerberg announced the evolution of the social network algorithm that defines what is shown above in the users' feed. Now in addition to taking into account the number of reactions, comments and shares of a publication, the new algorithm will add weight to content that they foresee to generate "valuable" conversations and interactions between people.
