Facebook Celebrates 12th Year With Friend's Day Videos
Twelve years ago, the social networking giant Facebook was born. Its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was fueled by a powerful singular vision of connecting people on a very wide scale and, of course, encouraging as many people as possible to spend a whole lot of time in his social media platform.
The social network celebrates its auspicious birth with an automatically generated custom-made video chronicle that reminds users of the time spent on Facebook. Dubbed as "Friends Day", the occasion is marked with an online exhibit of photos and timeline events aimed at enriching friendships.
"On February 4, I hope you'll join me in celebrating #friendsday -- a moment to celebrate the friendships that have made a difference in your life. Sometimes they just make people in our lives feel a bit more loved. Sometimes friendship becomes a force that sets us on a different path in life. Sometimes friendship moves the world," remarked the 31-year-old Facebook CEO as quoted by Business Standard.
The celebration would not be perfect without some good statistics to subtly brag about. As the Friends Day Video was launched, Facebook has crossed a milestone with 1.5 billion registered active users and exceeded Wall Street earnings forecast with its unexpected fourth quarter profit results for 2015.
As Facebook's global clout doubled in the last five years, Zuckerberg is clearly bent on world domination as it aims to connect 5 billion people in its global footprint by 2030. His vision for the not-so-distant future could be likely accomplished with the use of drones.
"We want to finish connecting everyone, we're going to do it in partnership with governments and different companies all over the world," said Zuckerberg as mentioned in a report by USA Today.
In Facebook's twelve-year existence, users have already spent close to $3.5 trillion worth of unproductive time liking and poking each other in a hypothetical math illustration as stated in an article by CNBC.
