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Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary
- bbivo1 13y agoUgh. 10 years of privacy invasion.
- lucaspiller 13y agoI love when new people sign up and believe the best way to contribute is to troll.
- 72deluxe 13y agoBebo was 9 in January. I wonder who will win between them?
- freehunter 13y agoWhen I go to Bebo, it tells me they're currently closed but I can sign up for the new Bebo. The fact that they've had to shut their doors and reboot (like digg and myspace) puts some doubt in my mind as a user. Wikipedia tells me that they've also deleted all user content from the site. I especially wouldn't consider it to be nine continuous years if they're bankrupt and closed for business, even if they plan on reopening. If they succeed, Bebo launched in 2014.
- pravincee 13y agoOk. Should we celebrate?
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- ronilan 13y ago> why were we the ones to build this? We were just students. We had way fewer resources than big companies. If they had focused on this problem, they could have done it. What does "this" refer to? ;) Exclusion by school email address, that's a resource. Big companies didn't have that, so they couldn't start "this" the same way, so they got to a different "it" and so on... Caring is important, but every social phenomena is unique by origin when you connect the dots backwards.
- eurleif 13y agoAlso, it's not just big companies who "could have done it". About a million different teenagers (including me) made virtual pet sites in the early 2000s. Virtual pet sites have profiles, friends lists and social features. If you get rid of the virtual pets, you have a social network. But that probably seemed too simple to us.
- izolate 13y agoI remember being on Facebook in its infancy. When the user's "wall" was just a <textarea> that was editable by anybody. I used to change the comments left by friends of friends to humorous effect (at least in my mind). Does anybody else remember this? Or did I dream this up?
- anrope 13y agoYep yep, back when it was thefacebook.com
- ulfw 13y agoWell happy birthday.
- chrissyb 13y ago"The first ten years were about bootstrapping this network." Can somebody please enlighten me on what he means here? I had previously thought that "bootstrapping" is a term reserved by those who are developing with little resources? Is there some other meaning that i'm not aware of?
- efdee 13y ago"In computer technology the term (usually shortened to booting) usually refers to the process of loading the basic software into the memory of a computer after power-on or general reset, especially the operating system which will then take care of loading other software as needed." So I'm assuming they are saying that they "creating the necessary software/infrastructure for the network to run on", rather than using it in the "bootstrapping a startup" sense.
- chrissyb 13y agoAwesome.. OK that makes much more sense now, i knew i was missing something important!
- MojoJolo 13y agoHappy 10th birthday Facebook! You have such a love and hate relationship with more than a billion people around the world. Awesome. You guys wanna check out "A Look Back" [0]. It shows your highlights and moments in Facebook. It feels good reminiscing those moments. I wonder though, did they generate the look back videos for all of their users? I think that will require massive computation power. [0] https://www.facebook.com/lookback https://www.facebook.com/lookback
- namenotrequired 13y agoMy (active) account only showed a few recent pictures.
- girvo 13y agoOh wow that was amazing! I wonder how they tackled that too
- batuhanicoz 13y agoMy "Lookback" was beautiful; brought back some memories. Made me realise how much my life changed in 6 years. As for your question, they are not generating it for every user; my test account doesn't have it. It's a 5 years old account.
- MojoJolo 13y agoInteresting. Maybe they just generate it for the active users. You mention it was a tst account, so I assume it's not that active and not a lot of content.
- batuhanicoz 13y agoYeah, not much content; I delete almost every post since they are just dummy posts made with the API. I just checked again and I know have that page on my test account but no video: Thank you, { firstname } 10 years ago people started using Facebook to share their biggest moments. Here are some of yours. And then just 6 photos, though that account has 7-8 photos anyway.
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- scotthtaylor 13y agoGreat work Facebook, you've remained relevant and certainly made the world more connected. Looking forward to seeing what you do over the next 10 years. True poster-child for startups and what they can accomplish.
- siphr 13y agoThree cheers for a decade of surveillance!
- borplk 13y agoImagine if you walked in to NSA 20 years ago and said I'll make a software that millions and millions of people will use to list all their friends, where they have been what they have done where they have gone where they want to go what they want to do, what they are thinking, photos of themselves, family, children, wife, husband, everything, they'll just go there every day and update this information .... you'd have gotten kicked out ... fast forward and tada! "Facebook! I use it because everyone else does" .... honestly from a surveillance point of view Facebook is the holy grail ... I can just imagine them shouting ... Facebook ... jackpot!
- evanb 13y agoThe Onion has a news video along these lines: http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos,19753/ http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...
- philfreo 13y agoBill Gates' quote rings so true here: "Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years."
- RexRollman 13y agoI just don't see how this is something to celebrate. Facebook is an awful company and an awful product.
- return0 13y agoMany developers have benefited greatly from either facebook exposure or their platform. It has become kind of a sine-qua-non for web applications at least. It's commonplace however to denigrate big monopolies (ibm, microsoft) and facebook is one of them.
- neals 13y agoI don't think they look at it like that themselves though...
- brudgers 13y agoThe comment does not support its assertions with examples, reasons, or rationales.
- matthewmacleod 13y agoDon't be obnoxious. Facebook has obvious problems as a company—privacy violations, data retention, lock-in, and so on—and as software, especially with regard to the frequency with which it's buggy as hell. However, it's also had more impact on the utility of the web for most users than almost any other product, save for perhaps Google. More than one-seventh of the entire human population now uses Facebook every month, which is incredible. And to achieve that in only 10 years—obviously by providing a service that many people feel is worthwhile—is still something that we can admire, regardless of the other issues around Facebook.
- jpeterson 13y agoHowever, it's also had more impact on the utility of the web for most users than almost any other product, save for perhaps Google. If by "had more impact" you mean "changed it into a medium for idle entertainment". Seriously, what problem does Facebook solve? Does it even do a very good job solving this problem? Does it have any redeeming quality whatsoever? From where I stand, it's just another dumb fad that was in the right place at the right time. It's the slap bracelet of this generation.
- theklub 13y agoThis makes me feel old
- agtunn 13y agoCongratulation 10 years old Facebook!Just wonder how many time Facebook data had been stollen in 10 Years.
- icefox 13y agoAnyone notice that in the superbowl commercials no one was giving links to facebook ala facebook.com/pepsi?
- judk 13y agoAnyone remember SB ads with "AOL keyword: Pepsi" ?
- jlgaddis 13y agoYes, and you also just invoked horrible memories of CompuServe's "GO" keywords.
- the_watcher 13y agoAt this point it's not even necessary. It's like saying Google us.
- icefox 13y agoExcept they were almost all had text like #pepsi, indicating the place to talk about this commercial is only on Twitter.
- CompleteMoron2 13y agoHurray! 10 years of getting people laid remotely!
- blackcatgirl 13y agoWell my video crashed when I tried to share it, and now it will not recreate it so I've missed out. Any idea how to redo one?
- mallory1020 13y agoI'm having the same issue!! My FB app crashed when I tried to post it and now the video is totally gone... :/ Just a thank you message and a few of my pictures.
- natschroeder 13y agoI only got to view my lookback once and it never came back! how can i get my video back. I want to share it:( can someone tell me how to get it back?
- baileybailey 13y agoI'm having the same problem!
- fflsoldier 13y agoFor all those who deleted by mistake their lookback it took me three days to find how to get it back....... 1. log into your facebook 2. top right find where you can find actual form to report problem 3. actually write what you did 4. say sorry lol 5. wait 24 hours 6. log back in 7. hopefully like mine yours will come back 8. play it 3 times 4. log out 5. log in 7. green share button will appear 8. don't touch or alter again. I hope all who want it back get it back good luck Tony
- nataliec86 13y agoI've deleted my look back video and now I can't get it back? I re clicked the link and it now just comes up of a grid of about 6 photos!? Anyone know how I get the video back? 😞
- baileybailey 13y agoI'm having the same problem!
- callmeawest 13y agoSame!! How do we get it back?
- fflsoldier 13y agoFor all those who deleted by mistake their lookback it took me three days to find how to get it back....... 1. log into your facebook 2. top right find where you can find actual form to report problem 3. actually write what you did 4. say sorry lol 5. wait 24 hours 6. log back in 7. hopefully like mine yours will come back 8. play it 3 times 4. log out 5. log in 7. green share button will appear 8. don't touch or alter again. I hope all who want it back get it back good luck Tony
- mide765 13y agoI actually don't know how the video is made. How do you create, and modify, a video with a programming language?
- vwgill 13y agoWhy can't I post my "A Look Back" video to FB? I don't see a share button.
- ivonne5116 13y agoI saw the video. Liked it but one photo which i deleted, when i returned to check the video it was goneeee!!! Can i get it back? Anyone please?
- elberry-uae2007 13y agoFghcxc
- fflsoldier 13y agoFor all those who deleted by mistake their lookback it took me three days to find how to get it back....... 1. log into your facebook 2. top right find where you can find actual form to report problem 3. actually write what you did 4. say sorry lol 5. wait 24 hours 6. log back in 7. hopefully like mine yours will come back 8. play it 3 times 4. log out 5. log in 7. green share button will appear 8. don't touch or alter again. I hope all who want it back get it back good luck Tony