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By this point it was being used not only by Harvard students to connect but it had started being used by other colleges as well. Such as, Stanford, Yale, and Columbia.
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This happened because ConnectU (formally Harvardconnect.com) said that Mark Zuckerberg had stolen the idea from them. A 4-year battle with a 1.2 million in shares for the people that accused Mark Zuckerburg of helping them create a platform and then stealing their idea and using it to create Facebook.
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Mark Zukerberg launched his social media "TheFacebook"
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The brand name was established. Moving from "TheFacebook" to just "Facebook".
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At this time they have dropped "The" from the name of Facebook and changed its domain to just "Facebook".
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This is when you could tag people you are friends within your posts, photos, and comment sections. A list would show up when you started to type someone's name and you choose the person you would want to tag.
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News feed is seeing what all of your friends have posted in one scroll. You can look at something they have posted without having to go to their profile. More convenient and faster.
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Now you can use Facebook on your mobile devices instead of just your computers. Now you can take Facebook with you wherever you go and be able to post while you are out and about.
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This is strictly for software developers to have a good understanding about the platform so if something does go wrong, they can fix it on their end.
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A targeted AD system that published users' activities on external sites without permission. Creating privacy concerns and resulting in a class action lawsuit.
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Back in 2004 ConnectU that was made up of 3 Harvard students sued Mark for stealing their idea. In June 2008 Mark paid each of them 1.2 million in shares.
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Mark Zuckerberg has had a headquarters in the US and is moving it to Dublin so he can better monitor it and be closer to the operation itself.
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This is letting the person know you like what they have to say. You are showing interest in their posts.
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Back in 2007 a lawsuit was filed against Facebook due to privacy concerns after the beacon had been launched. After 2 years in the courtroom beacon is shut down.
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Your Timeline is what you have posted on Facebook over the years and how Facebook can track it. Timeline is where friends and family can see memories with one another without losing track of time.
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Facebook has partnered with Skype to add video chat to their platform. That way people long distance or on vacations can still connect with family and friends.
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Facebook has decided to acquire Instagram. Instagram is a platform to post pictures and videos but, it is also used for ads and influencers.
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Featured posts are posts that Facebook sees as more important than others. Meaning they will show up more frequently in your newsfeed than your normal posts.
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Facebook started out just for the students at Harvard and it had grown and spread to several Ivy League schools. Now Mark Zuckerberg has decided to introduce Facebook to the Public. Which in turn will end Myspace.
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Facebook has now reached an active 1 billion users. A very important milestone for Facebook history.
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Stickers are used to post or message someone. You have funny, sad, mad, happy, etc. so a person can know how you feel and it also kind of lightens the mood. It was the beginning stage of emojis.
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Internet.org is somewhere you could easily go to use a search bar and browse the internet. Not many people used it due to having Bing and Google at the time.
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Many people still use this today. It's a texting app where you can meet new people, text with friends and family. WhatsApp was not always a safe space and studies have shown the dangers in using the app.
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Look back videos were introduced in 2014 and they would make a mini clip of all your memories. Facebook would take your memories you had posted on there and turn it into a mini clip for you to enjoy.
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This is a free and open source to communicate anonymously. It directs internet traffic that consists of more than 7,000 relays. Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace the user's internet activity.
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This allowed you to send money back and forth to friends and family through messenger. You could request or send money to any person you needed.
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Facebook announced the support to use GIFs. They were emojis that also had pictures from different scenes of movies, and TV shows. This later would introduce people to Memes.
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There is now a reaction button. You can like, love, sad, mad, and care emoji someone's post. Instead of just the average like that everyone had been doing for years, this is more personal and fun.
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A game that you could only play in messenger. Someone would start the game and it would notify the other person in your messages that it was now their turn. Whoever scored more wins.
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This was a virtual environment to interact with your friends. It's almost as if you are in the same room as your friends and family so you can hang out and have fun.
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This was an anonymous social media app that was available in the US. It was designed for high school students. Facebook acquired the company for an estimated $100 million.
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This scandal was probably the biggest in history of Facebook. Personal data belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected without their consent by British consulting firm Cambridge Analytic to be used for political advertising. It was collected through an app called "This is Your Digital Life"
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GIPHY is a source for the best and newest GIF's and animated stickers online. You can get anything from funny GIF's, reaction GIF's, unique GIF's and more.
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Dark mode changes the background from the bright white to dark black. This doesn't put as much of a strain on your eyes as well as having a dark background will differ you from other people. Some people prefer the bright white screen. While others prefer it to be dark.
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Facebook Inc. was renamed as Meta Platforms Inc. Meta is widely known for the Meta bank. Meta bank controls several of the prepaid/debit cards and credit decisions.
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This data breech exposes 530 million users. This means that their personal data pertaining to 533 million users was made public on an online forum. Facebook was fined $276 million.
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Before if you used the cameras or filters on Facebook there was a chance that your face image was being used in facial recognition someplace else. The more we started to learn about facial recognition and the dangers, Facebook shut it down to protect their users.
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Daily user's numbers are dropping more and more every day. There are new and better platforms that people are starting to migrate to. Facebook isn't monitoring the way it should be anymore and it is mainly ads and reels.
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This eased the rule to allow violent speech against "Russian Invaders". This decision was made when Russia invaded Ukraine, and everyone was being censored.