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Slogan: It´s quick and easy
The Facebook logo has always been and continues to be its distinctive symbol. This is the name of the social network, written in white letters on a blue rectangular background or in black on white. In addition, there is a graphic designation in the form of a single "f". Throughout the entire period of existence, the emblem underwent minor changes, remaining recognizable and clearly prominent from the rest. -
The history of Facebook begins in October 2003, when a young Mark Zuckerberg comes up with the idea of creating a website to entertain his Harvard classmates. The site was called Facemash and it was used by students to judge the attractiveness of other students and make rankings. Two days later the site was closed for using photos without permission, but it had already reached more than 22,000 image views. This success led Zuckerberg to create a new social network -
Mark Zuckenger with his colleagues Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes create a new social network. The platform was called 'The Facebook' and was only available to people with an email address from Harvard. It consisted of a profile where users could connect with other people, share interests and include personal information such as their class schedules and clubs to which they belonged. -
Within a month of life, 50% of Harvard students were already enrolled. At that time, ‘The Facebook’ began to be enabled in other Universities such as Yale, Columbia and Stanford.
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he social network lost the “The” and officially became Facebook, it also opened to more users and allows high school students and universities from other countries (Mexico, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) access the social network. At the end of the year, Facebook already had around 6 million monthly active users. -
The social network still had a design that was quite reminiscent of MySpace, so a change was made where the profile photo gained prominence and the font was more pleasing to the eye. Likewise, the NewsFeed is added so that the user can see the activity of their contacts directly in the profile. -
It is a momentous date in the history of Facebook because the platform is finally going global and is open to everyone - specifically to those over 13 with an email address.
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Facebook surpasses MySpace as the most visited social network. -
Facebook activated the iconic "like" button. Although that year will go down in the history of Facebook as the year in which the social network became the most popular platform in the world, with 350 million registered users and 132 million unique monthly users -
Facebook was valued at more than 37,000 million euros, becoming the third largest web company in the US, only behind Google and Amazon. -
Zuckerberg's social platform acquires Instagram for about a billion euros and also goes public. On the other hand, it reaches the beastly figure of one billion active users per month -
The acquisition of the competition (Instagram) went so well that Zuckerberg tried to buy Snapchat, although without success, two years later he managed to buy WhatsApp. -
The good news for Zuckerberg is that Facebook has managed to surpass the figure of two billion monthly active users by far. An unprecedented figure for a web platform. -
Unfortunately, in recent years it has stood out more for controversies such as the problem of fake news or the controversy with the use of Cambridge Analytica data, where Zuckerberg himself had to appear before the US Congress. This last event was the biggest Facebook scandal, which caused Zuckerberg's company to lose some 40 million euros. -
It is true that in recent years Facebook has not made many important changes, just some variations in its design, the inclusion of verified accounts or Facebook Stories.
Even so, Facebook is still the most important social network and together with Instagram it dominates the spectrum of social media. Of course, today it seems that Facebook has achieved everything, but it still has to face new challenges.