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A trip down memory lane as Facebook turns 19

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Since Mark Zuckerberg, his Harvard University roommates, and other classmates officially launched Facebook in 2004, it has been 19 years. Despite numerous failures faced over the years, the social networking site still enjoys billions of daily active members. National Today reported that Zuckerberg founded Facemash in 2003, his sophomore year before it evolved into Facebook. For students, the website was designed as a "hot or no" game that let users compare two students' pictures side by side. 450 people visited and 22,000 photos were viewed in the first four days after it was published. Two days after breaking university rules by purchasing resources, the website was taken down. However, the group became inspired to create a new website, which resulted in the creation of Facebook in February 2004. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="615"]Facebook turns 15 - here are the social network's most controversial  moments - Mirror Online Image credit- Mirror Online[/caption] The website's membership was once restricted to Harvard students only. However, it subsequently spread to other American colleges and universities, including Yale and Stanford. By way of The Harvard Crimson, Zuckerberg said: "There has been much discussion about creating a Harvard-wide Facebook. It seems a little odd to me that it would take the University a few years to get around to doing it. They can't do it as well as I can, and I can finish it in a week." He wanted to engage and speak with others on the campus by building this platform. By June 2004, Facebook was hosting about 25,000 students from various colleges as a result of its popularity. MasterCard, a credit card firm, paid Facebook for publicity because it recognized the site's potential to grow. Facebook attracted one million users by year's end. Facebook hit six million active users two years later. Before other competitors could take advantage of the situation, advertisers started contacting the team to seize the online market. The platform's popularity increased dramatically as a result of these data, considerably more than the team could have ever anticipated. For its 19th year online, Facebook recently surpassed 2 billion daily active users. This is the first time the social network has accomplished this feat; it joins WhatsApp as a platform owned by Meta that have done so. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="615"]Facebook turns 15 - here are the social network's most controversial  moments - Mirror Online Image credit- Mirror Online[/caption] Facebook is a social media platform designed for visibility, discovery, and connections. The company's mission statement is still to empower individuals to share and foster more connectivity and openness in the world. Facebook went public in 2012 while raising $16 billion. Three months after making this announcement, the business disclosed that an agreement had been struck to purchase Instagram for about $1 billion. Also read: Mark Zuckerberg to testify in FTC case of Facebook VR content creator purchase Mark Zuckerberg said, "These are, in our opinion, distinct experiences that enhance one another. But rather than just trying to integrate everything into Facebook, we must be careful to preserve and enhance Instagram's strengths and features." According to reports, Facebook also bought the messaging service WhatsApp in 2014. As part of this transaction, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg paid $19 billion to acquire WhatsApp, making its founders Jan Koum and Brian Actor billionaires.

By Raulf Hernes

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