Hello! Today is the 18th birthday of Facebook as Facebook had now turned 18 years old from when it was founded, moving on towards an adult age. Facebook was created 19 years back the following day. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook, and he was born on the 14th of May in the year 1984.
Facebook is an American online social networking and social media service owned by Meta Platforms that allow users to communicate with one another. Facebook is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow Harvard College students and roommates like Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, Andrew McCollum, and Dustin Moskovitz. Facebook was founded in the year 2004 by the following members. They referred to the Facebook directories frequently given to the American university students at the time of their founding.
The social networking site Facebook may be accessed from Internet access devices, such as anybody’s personal computer or tablets and smartphones. Once they have registered, users can develop a profile that contains personal information about themselves. Facebook gives the authority to post text, photographs, and multimedia, which can be accepted worldwide who have received to be their “friend” or, depending on the privacy settings, can be shared with the entire world over the internet. Users can also chat with one another directly using Facebook Messenger or join groups of some common interest and receive updates about the actions of their Facebook friends and the pages that they follow and those who follow them, among other things.
Zuckerberg first used a computer and wrote software when he was in the eighth grade. The Atari BASIC programming language was introduced to him by his father in the 1990s, and he later hired software engineer David Newman to educate him in private. In high school, Zuckerberg attended a graduate course in Mercy College, which is close to his home.
Facebook First Time In History Lost Numbers Of Users
Sadly, the shocking news is that Facebook has lost its daily active users for the very first time in the entire 18 years of its history, which caused the number of people which were logging in each day to Facebook, made it drop by around half a million in the last three months of the past year 2021, to 1.93 billion. Furthermore, statistics show that the most significant declines of Facebook daily active users dropped in Africa in Latin America. India, indicating that the company’s offering has reached saturation in these regions and that its long-running ambition to attract as many customers as possible has come to an end or maybe getting lower day by day due to loss in daily active users.
Investors punished the company on Thursday, citing a variety of factors, which include slow growth numbers, a low revenue estimation for the coming months, the company’s failure to start generating advertising money from Reels, some short video like Tik-tok, as well as costs associated with changes to Apple’s operating system that prevent ad tracking, which hurts companies such as Facebook.
Anyhow, thanks to Mark Zuckerberg, he founded us a platform where we can share our lifelines with our friends and make friends worldwide. So, once again, Happy Birthday to Facebook for turning 18 years old. You can click here and check the birthday, age and count years.
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