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Started In A College Dorm
"Mark Zuckerberg creates a site called ‘Facemash’ in his dorm room"(Shooting Reels, 2022). This was only available to Harvard students and did not go as planned. -
The Creation of Facebook
" ‘The Facebook’ is born, described by Zuckerberg as an online directory for Harvard students, a place to find friends and then the friends of their friends" (Shooting Reels, 2022). Originally this was only available to Harvard students but was shared to other college campuses and reached over 1 million users. -
The Expansion
In 2006, Zuckerberg opened the Facebook platform up to anyone over the age of 13. At this time the newsfeed was introduced to Facebook users. According to Shooting Reels, "However, people hated the News Feed at the time. Many believed it was too similar to Twitter" (Shooting Reels, 2022). -
Huge Growth
By 2008 Facebook has become available world wide and has 100 million users. At this time Facebook is available in languages other than English. -
Like Button
According to Jalan (2023) "Facebook added more features to its website and the app, including Chat, Pages, Facebook Ads, and video support". Also introduced was the famous like button feature. The like button allowed users to like post, video and content posted to the platform. -
Growth
By 2010 Facebook has reached over 500 million users. In a film released world wide Zuckerberg "discusses how Facebook’s success is due to its focus on socialisation. Claiming that a social version of anything will always do better than something non-social" (Shooting Reels, 2022). -
The News
"Facebook take a page out of Twitter’s book and create their own trending topics feature" (Shooting Reels, 2022). This allows users to follow news posted onto the Facebook platform. -
Huge Growth
In 2017 Facebook has reached 2 Billion monthly users. This is a huge amount of monthly users for a social media platform. -
Largest Social Media Platform
Facebook now has 2.7 Billion monthly users. This makes it the largest used social media platform in the world.