9602861_sHappy Birthday Facebook!

Ten years ago today, in a dorm room at Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg started TheFacebook, since shortened to Facebook. At the time he told Harvard’s paper, The Crimsom that he wanted The Facebook to be a fun experience: “I’m not going to sell anybody’s email address. At one point, I thought about making the website so that you could upload a résumé, too, and for a fee, companies could search for Harvard job applicants. But I don’t want to touch that. It would make everything more serious and less fun.” 

Since then, Facebook has grown to well over 1.2 billion active monthly users, around the world, eclipsing the next 3 largest social media sites (Google+, Twitter, and LinkedIn) combined. Yet for that huge number of users, Facebook has yet to be allowed to penetrate China.

Facebook is far from perfect, but it has built a worldwide community that most others can only dream of. Happy Birthday!