Facebook is celebrating its 5th birthday today and the social networking site now boasts more than 150 million users globally.
In a blog post, founder Mark Zuckerberg reflects on the last five years. “Facebook was founded in 2004 to give people the tools to engage and understand the world around them. We are glad and humbled that so many people are using Facebook in this way.”
To celebrate Facebook has created a ” Thank You” gift, which is available in the Facebook Gift Shop. “In the spirit of celebrating connections between people, we encourage you to use this gift to give thanks to your friends, colleagues and family members with whom you are connected on Facebook,” Zuckerberg writes.
Facebook also has a photo album that shows how the site has changed over the last five years. Zuckerberg writes,” To give you a sense of how the site has changed, we dug up a few images of how Facebook used to look. Building and moving quickly for five years hasn’t been easy, and we aren’t finished. The challenge motivates us to keep innovating and pushing technical boundaries to produce better ways to share information.”
He closes his post with this. “As we celebrate Facebook’s 5th birthday, we continue to work hard to evolve Facebook and make it as simple as possible to communicate with and understand the people and entities that matter to you.”
