Facebook

Creation of FaceMash

Oct 28, 2003

Mark Zuckerberg releases FaceMash, the predecessor of Facebook.
The website was set up for Harvard students to compare pictures of female students.

Start of Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook is released for Harvard students

1 Million Users

Dec 30, 2004

Facebook achieves 1 million users

Domain

Aug 23, 2005

Facebook acquires the Facebook.com domain

Newsfeed

Sep 6, 2006

Facebook releases newsfeed, which shows updates of your friends activities.

Like

Feb 9, 2009

Facebook releases the Like button on Facebook

The Social Network

Oct 1, 2010

The movie The Social Network is released. It is about facebook.

1 Billion Users

2012

Facebook achieves 1 billion users.

Instagram

2012

Facebook buys Instagram for 1 billion dollars.

Snapchat

Nov 13, 2013

Facebook wanted to buy Snapchat for 3 billion dollars but was rejected.

Whatsapp

Feb 19, 2014

Facebook buys Whatsapp for 16 billion dollars plus another 3 billion.

Milestone

Aug 27, 2015

Facebook achieves the milestone of 1 billion users using it on a single day,.

Facebook Reactions

Feb 24, 2016

Facebook releases Facebook reactions, which allows people to used reactions other than the like button. These reactions are love, wow, haha, sad and anger.

2 Billion Users

Jun 27, 2017

Facebook achieves 2 billion users

Controversies

Apr 10, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg attends a congressional hearing about controversies about Facebook's data privacy, and was questioned for 10 hours. He apologizes and promises reforms, but also defends Facebook. He explains his plans to tighten data policies, protect users and make it more apparent about who is advertising on Facebook