Facebook: Facebook has completed its 20 years. Facebook came into existence in the world 20 years ago on February 4, 2004. What most people would not know about this world’s leading social media platform is that Facebook was started in 2004 itself, when most of the world’s users did not even know the names of things like smartphone and internet. How Facebook has traveled from 2004 to 2024, what changes have happened in it, let us talk about all these things.
Facebook’s initial competition
20 years ago, there used to be platforms like MySpace and Orkut in the name of social media, but after the arrival of Facebook, all the other platforms disappeared. Facebook has seen many ups and downs in the last 20 years, but still its owner Mark Zuckerberg continuously took his platform forward.
- In 2004, the name of Facebook was The Facebook. Till that time there was no platform to share your photos and tag your friends. In such a situation, Facebook had made this platform quite different and special from the time of its launch by introducing the facility of photo sharing and tagging.
- Facebook had gained a lot of popularity within a short time after its launch. Just one year after its launch, 1 million people had become part of the Facebook family.
- In the next 8 years, Facebook’s popularity increased 1000 times and by 2012, 1 billion people had become a part of the Facebook family.
- Facebook was started from a developed country, America, but its popularity reached even developing and underdeveloped countries. Facebook made its mark even in countries where there were not many internet or entertainment facilities.
- Facebook was the first social media platform that started providing personalized experience to its users.
- Users got a chance to try a new kind of thing, and they were having a lot of fun.
People meet lost friends through Facebook
- Through Facebook, people got a chance to meet their old friends again, whose phone number or address they did not even have.
- Through Facebook, you can know information about your friends’ birthdays, their daily activities, special updates of their lives.
- However, after that Facebook faced the problem of putting people’s privacy at risk, but Facebook solved that problem by introducing many privacy features.
- In the early days of Facebook, people had to spend a lot of money to make calls. Messaging was also not free, but through Facebook, people got a way to communicate with people by using the internet for free.
- Gradually people started finding Facebook a good platform to grow their business. Facebook also understood the demand of users and launched many new advertising features for businessmen.
- Whether the business is big or very small, users can grow their business by promoting on Facebook.
- After businessmen, politicians also started taking help of Facebook for their publicity and they also got benefit from it.
loss of facebook
Facebook has brought many benefits in the last 20 years, but it has also had some disadvantages. Fake news spreads very quickly through various social media platforms including Facebook, which causes great harm to the society.
People also started committing fraud by using Facebook. Such people try to defraud their friends or relatives of money by creating a fake profile or by creating a fake profile in the name of someone else.
Apart from this, children are also being adversely affected through Facebook, due to which Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg recently had to apologize to the lawmakers and parents of the affected children in an American court.
However, Facebook is making continuous efforts to protect its users from these disadvantages, and it is hoped that in the coming time we will be able to completely get rid of these problems.
Facebook in the next 20 years
Changes are being made continuously in Facebook. Now Facebook comes inside the meta company. Along with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp also come under Meta. Facebook will change many times more in the next 20 years than in the last 20 years. According to experts, the biggest change in Facebook will be related to AI i.e. Artificial Technology.
AI is progressing very fast and is also developing. In such a situation, many special features of AI can come in Facebook, due to which the experience of the users can be much more advanced, which we cannot even imagine at this time.
