Ten years ago, at his University Harvard, a worldwide phenomenon was born: Facebook.
The network was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Originally, it was a network available only for its students Harvard, to expand to other schools in the Boston area. From then on, he began to accept students from other universities before 2005 was open all over the world.
The social network started from scratch, managed to attract several investments and thus has now developed into a real phenomenon. In December 2004, Facebook already had 1 million users. The network has today reached over 1.230 million monthly users, while 757 million, visit the social network daily.
2013's revenue for 1,5 has reached XNUMX billions of dollars.
The quite controversial is that Facebook today has become an important part of our digital culture. It has become a way of connecting friends, ex-classmates and sharing opinions, or important events of everyday life.