Facebook has designated Feb. 4, 2016 as "Friends Day" in celebration of the social networking site's 12th birthday. It's calling attention to how the site has connected people all over the world, with a Friends Day video montage appearing on user News Feeds, displaying photos of some memorable moments with friends and family.
Given Facebook's massive reach, it's easy to forget the site's humble Harvard University dorm room beginnings. The earliest incarnation of the site was Facesmash, which was launched October 28, 2003 by Mark Zuckerberg and Harvard classmates Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. That early site was designed as something of a "hot or not" game comparing pictures of different undergrads based on their attractiveness.
That earlier website laid the groundwork for Thefacebook.com, which launched on Feb. 4, 2004. Originally just open to Harvard students, the site soon expanded to Columbia, Yale, and Stanford, then the rest of the Ivy League and Boston-area schools, before spreading across the country and around the world.
Over the next decade, what started as a private website for college students became something that everyone from tweens to grandmothers were using. Facebook has grown by acquiring the likes of WhatsApp and Instagram, adding features that broaden the company's reach and appeal.
In honor of the site's 12th anniversary, click through to find out 12 fun facts about Facebook.
Probably one of the strangest Facebook features, the "poke" doesn't get much attention anymore, but rest assured, it still exists. The feature is simple -- users just hit "poke" on someone's Facebook and that individual gets a notification. It can be a way to get someone's attention, or just annoy that person with notifications.
RecordSetter.com reports that the person who has allegedly received the most pokes on Facebook is Yan D. from Singapore. The record-keeping site vets entries -- users have to present video proof of their supposed records form their public Facebook accounts. Right now, Yan D. has received 1,000,069 pokes on the site. While some other uses cried foul in the comments section of the site, citing the possibility that poke-generating apps might have been used, it is undeniable that those are a lot of pokes.
Facebook’s ‘Like’ button used to be the ‘Awesome’ button. Facebook engineer Andrew Bosworth said that he and other engineers were enthusiastic about the “Awesome” button, but that the idea was ultimately vetoed by Zuckerberg in 2007. The site eventually settled on the “Like” button, a decision that Bosworth said was met with a decidedly lukewarm reception.
Facebook has designated Feb. 4, 2016 as "Friends Day" in celebration of the social networking site's 12th birthday. It's calling attention to how the site has connected people all over the world, with a Friends Day video montage appearing on user News Feeds, displaying photos of some memorable moments with friends and family.
Given Facebook's massive reach, it's easy to forget the site's humble Harvard University dorm room beginnings. The earliest incarnation of the site was Facesmash, which was launched October 28, 2003 by Mark Zuckerberg and Harvard classmates Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. That early site was designed as something of a "hot or not" game comparing pictures of different undergrads based on their attractiveness.
That earlier website laid the groundwork for Thefacebook.com, which launched on Feb. 4, 2004. Originally just open to Harvard students, the site soon expanded to Columbia, Yale, and Stanford, then the rest of the Ivy League and Boston-area schools, before spreading across the country and around the world.
Over the next decade, what started as a private website for college students became something that everyone from tweens to grandmothers were using. Facebook has grown by acquiring the likes of WhatsApp and Instagram, adding features that broaden the company's reach and appeal.
In honor of the site's 12th anniversary, click through to find out 12 fun facts about Facebook.
Probably one of the strangest Facebook features, the "poke" doesn't get much attention anymore, but rest assured, it still exists. The feature is simple -- users just hit "poke" on someone's Facebook and that individual gets a notification. It can be a way to get someone's attention, or just annoy that person with notifications.
RecordSetter.com reports that the person who has allegedly received the most pokes on Facebook is Yan D. from Singapore. The record-keeping site vets entries -- users have to present video proof of their supposed records form their public Facebook accounts. Right now, Yan D. has received 1,000,069 pokes on the site. While some other uses cried foul in the comments section of the site, citing the possibility that poke-generating apps might have been used, it is undeniable that those are a lot of pokes.
Facebook’s ‘Like’ button used to be the ‘Awesome’ button. Facebook engineer Andrew Bosworth said that he and other engineers were enthusiastic about the “Awesome” button, but that the idea was ultimately vetoed by Zuckerberg in 2007. The site eventually settled on the “Like” button, a decision that Bosworth said was met with a decidedly lukewarm reception.
RecordSetter.com reports that the person who has allegedly received the most pokes on Facebook is Yan D. from Singapore. The record-keeping site vets entries -- users have to present video proof of their supposed records form their public Facebook accounts. Right now, Yan D. has received 1,000,069 pokes on the site. While some other uses cried foul in the comments section of the site, citing the possibility that poke-generating apps might have been used, it is undeniable that those are a lot of pokes.
Facebook’s ‘Like’ button used to be the ‘Awesome’ button. Facebook engineer Andrew Bosworth said that he and other engineers were enthusiastic about the “Awesome” button, but that the idea was ultimately vetoed by Zuckerberg in 2007. The site eventually settled on the “Like” button, a decision that Bosworth said was met with a decidedly lukewarm reception.
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