In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg, a second-year student at Harvard, wrote software for a website called Facemash. He put his computer science skills to questionable use by hacking into Harvard's security network, where he copied the student ID images used by the dormitories and used them to populate his new website. On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. The very next day, over a thousand people had registered, and that was only the beginning. One of the most interesting stories relates to who was the face of Facebook. In 2004, Andrew McCollum, a Harvard classmate, was approached by Zuckerberg to be the first graphic designer for Facebook. McCollum designed Facebook's first logo and a set of user interface icons. If you ever wondered who the mysterious face was, or if it was even a real person. Indeed, it was. The face is that of acting superstar, Al Pacino. 😮 Fast-forward 20 years, and Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most influential people on the planet and Facebook is part of a Global Technology Phenomena. Audiences continue to flock to the leading social networks, with Instagram seeing a 35.3% increase in its active users in 2023 compared with 2022. However, Facebook is still the leading social network by some margin. According to E-Commerce Nation, trendsetting Instagram has surpassed all other social networks in terms of growth rate in 2023. Telegram Messenger has taken second spot with 27.3% active user growth, while Douyin and Snap Inc. numbers have grown by 19.2% and 14% respectively. However, the social network 👑 is still Facebook, with an incredible 2.96 Billion monthly active users. Facebook is joined on the social network podium by YouTube and WhatsApp. Interested in advertising on Meta Platforms? Talk to us and push your business goals. |
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