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The Founding of Facebook
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Zuckerbeg said he founded Facebook on the idea that people want to share and connect with people in their lives, but to do this everyone needs complete control over who they share with at all times. -
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook so that people would be able to socialize online while having control over what they share. -
First Service
Mark Zuckerberg posted the very first post on Facebook. -
News Feed Invented
News feed was announced, which appears on every user's homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays of the user's friends. -
Their purchase by Microsoft
On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion. -
Most Visited
More people visited Facebook than Google. -
fb.com
On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced it had acquired the domain name fb.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation for an undisclosed amount. -
Subscribe Button Created
Facebook added the ability for users to provide a "Subscribe" button on their page, which allows users to subscribe to public postings by the user without needing to add them as a friend. -
Graph Search
On January 15, 2013, Facebook announced their new product Graph Search, which provides users with a “precise answer” rather than a link to an answer by leveraging the data already present on its site. Facebook emphasized that the feature would be "privacy-aware," returning only results from content already shared with the user. -
Home
On April 3, 2013, Facebook unveiled Home, a user interface layer for Android devices offering heavy integration with the service, for an initial release on April 12, 2013. HTC also announced a new smartphone with Home pre-loaded, the HTC First. -
New Logo
On April 19th, 2013 Facebook officially updated their logo. Facebook's new logo no longer includes the faint blue line at the bottom of their "F" icon. The letter is also pulled closer to the edge of the box. -
iOS App
On August 23, 2012, Facebook released the much anticipated update to its iOS app, version 5.0. The app, which did not receive positive sentiments from its users, was rebuilt from the ground up; the app no longer uses page views which made it slow in the past but now utilizes code that uses native elements of iOS.
