Facebook celebrates fifth birthday with growth in key sharing features
Five years ago tomorrow, Mark Zuckerberg launched a site out of his Harvard dorm called thefacebook.com. It was an immediate hit, despite competition from established social networks, because it offered a safe place for students to share things like party photos with just their real friends. So it’s hardly a birthday surprise that photo uploads - and a range of other methods for sharing personal information on the site - continue to gain popularity today, as can be seen from some new statistics just released by the company.
In fact, information-sharing features like photos seem to be gaining popularity with Facebook users faster than Facebook itself is gaining new users - a sign that the sharing-focused redesign implemented last year continues to take hold on, and also a good sign for the company’s revenue-making efforts. Here’s the breakdown.
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