Happy 16th Birthday Facebook, The Most Phenomenal Social Media In The World

JAKARTA - Happy birthday to Facebook, which is now 16 years old. The social media, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, has now become a multibillion dollar company and has been used almost all over the world.

Summarized from the Mirror, from a dorm room at Havard University Mark Zuckerberg released his first social media site. Facebook was originally created as a forum for Havard alumni and students to connect with one another.

But who would have thought, the site he created was actually popular and not only used by Havard students. At that time, the only competitor to Facebook was MySpace, which had a blue and white website design.

Now Facebook has been transformed as a company worth billions of US dollars (US). According to the Forbes report, Zuckerberg himself has an estimated net worth of US $ 77.8 billion, equivalent to Rp.10.6 trillion.

It's not surprising, because every month Facebook has 2.5 billion new users. This gave the social media platform 25 percent revenue in the last three months of last year.

Celebrating Facebook's 16th birthday, Mark Zuckerberg also shared his happy moments in a post depicting curly fries with 16 candles.

"This made me smile .. Happy birthday, Facebook🎉🎂😊," wrote Zuckerberg in his post which has received 243 thousand likes.

In the framework of Facebook's birthday, VOI has also summarized a number of unique facts about this one social media:

1. Before the giant blue platform appeared, Zuckerberg created FaceMash, a platform that assesses women on campus based on their looks. The idea came to hack university servers and download photos of students without permission. Then, users can select their attractiveness using an algorithm that ranks the options.

2. The last time Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo won the title of most liked page on Facebook, after previously singer Shakira. However, many suspect, that Mark Zuckerberg's page should be in the main position. Unfortunately at that time Facebook was experimenting with hiding the "Likes" feature on its platform.

3. While you are in China, Facebook cannot be accessed because the local government since 2009 has banned using social media sites together with a group of US-based platforms such as Google and Dropbox.

4. Facebook has more female users than men, with nearly 76 percent of Facebook users being women.

5. More than 600,000 attempts are made to hack the Facebook site every day.

6. In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg stumbled on a data abuse case. He faced a scandal with the controversial Cambridge Analytica and saw him testify before congress.

7. Since its launch in 2004, the technology company has made many acquisitions. One of them is the instant messaging service WhatsApp, which was acquired in 2014, followed by Instagram in 2012. Now, if a user uses these two services, the words "From Facebook" will appear.