Facebook Evolution and Life Cycle!
Facebook is something that doesn’t needs an
introduction. A social media having billions of active users has been
doing great since the day it was launched. If you are an old Facebook
user then you will find this post interesting enough to refresh your old
memories of using this social media site. Here is a list of all major
changes that are of significant importance in the journey that Facebook
started, back in 2004. Lets go back to those days and recall how Facebook gradually reached to somewhere, that is here!
Have a look!
2004: Welcome to Facebook.com, the originals
The original, Facebook was up for the students of
Harvard only, comprising of used photos compiled from the online
Facebook of nine houses, placing next to each other and asking which one
is ‘hotter’. It attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo views in its
first four hours online. Which was later expanded by introducing social
study tool ahead of art history finals, and there on people start
sharing notes.
2005: The original Facebook profile, the high-school version
Facebook.com received its first investment in June
2004 from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and later the company dropped
‘The’ from its name, originating the tremendous social networking site,
after purchasing its domain “Facebook.com’ in 2005 for $200,000. It has
now gone to a senior level as Facebook launched a high-school version
that required an invitation to join. It later expended membership
eligibility to employees of various companies.
2006: Mark Zuckerberg’s profile, Personal profile of everyone
Everyone of age 13 or older with a valid email
address could join the network. It’s when the Mark Zuckerberg brought
the first major redesign, news feeds were popping up on the user’s
homepage which allow users to track their friend’s Facebook updates and
activity in real time and mini feeds were introduce on individual
profile pages. The change was protested and for that Zuckerberg wrote an
open apology letter. Microsoft purchased 1.6% shares of Facebook for
$240 million and owns a right to place international ads on Facebook.
2008: Facebook’s home page
Within four years there were over 100 million users
which were growing with a percentage of 178.38%. For such growing
community, the Facebook launched a new user interface format, a complete
layout redesign and brought changes in Facebook’s terms of Use, which
remove the clause detailing automatic expiry of deleted contents.
2009: Facebook Homepage
Facebook removed the privacy controls for the news
feeds and mini feeds. Users frenzy ensures when users can’t control the
activities that are publish on their walls and freedom to post anything
and limit to delete the posted posts ensures the mess, so here the
Facebook took another turn and introduced Real-time stream. Facebook
also start asking ‘what’s on your mind’, letting you to share more.
2010: Profile gets a Facelift
A new messaging platform, ‘Project Titan’ basically
known as “Gmail killer’ was introduced that allow users to directly
communicate with each other besides Facebook restore its profile pages
again in 2010 with options of controlled and streamlined its privacy
settings.
2010: Facebook pages
Celebrities getting on with social networking site,
publicizing and moving step ahead to exponential growth of their fans by
inviting fans and customers to connect with them on Facebook
2011: Ticker
Stalking has become a lot easier in 2011 when a
real-time activity was introduced to the homepage. It also added the
ability for users to provide a ‘Subscribe’ button on their pages.
2011: Video chat
Facebook moves from words to videos and voices, it
launched its video calling services using Skype as its technology
partner. It also allow to make live voice calls via Facebook Chats.
2011: Timeline hello
Zuckerberg now claiming to make navigation through
profile easier and has made timeline mandatory though a large percentage
of Facebook users have rejected the change.
2011: Facebook subscribers
Facebook have now moved to next level of socialism by
connecting people without them being friends. Now your pictures, posts
and other stuff that you wish to post on public could be seen by your
followers a true gift for celebrities and heartthrobs of universities.
Facebook enable ‘subscribers’ option and now
2012: Facebook’s App Center
The social network giant Facebook finally have
decided to sum up the world in a nutshell. An opportunity have been
created for the developers to make their efforts worthy and successful
in for of apps on the Facebook.
2012: Facebook acquires Instagram
Facebook bought alone the photo sharing app at
whooping cost of $1billion. Instagram was winning millions of hearts
after launching every single app so why would Facebook not acquire that
after all, photo sharing and tagging are arguably what *made* Facebook.
2013: Graph Search
Mark Zuckerberg have finally promised that Facebook
will now publish filtered, curated, and customized information on graph
search pattern which will definitely connect many things together.
