Facebook turns 12 with Friends Day videos for users

In a blog post, Facebook said the average degrees of separation between everyone on Facebook through friend connections comes to 3.57, less than famed author Frigyes Karinthy proposed in his short story “Chains”.

An average pair of Facebook users now have only 3.57 degrees of separation between them, the social network says. “With twice as many people using the site, we’ve grown more interconnected, thus shortening the distance between any two people in the world”, Facebook’s research team writes.

At an event hosted in honour of Friends Day, Zuckerberg reportedly told employees that he aims to increase the number of monthly active users for Facebook to 5bn by 2030, more than tripling the social network’s current size.

Apart from the algorithm-based friendship video, Facebook has released their latest statistics about their users’ degrees of separation.

During an event at Facebook’s new headquarters, celebrating the network’s 12 anniversary, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about achievements so far and ambitions for the future. Friendship is what gives meaning to our lives.

The company used automated technology to collate photos of users and their friends, packing them together in a video collage, which can be shared publicly or viewed privately.

A limited edition “Best Friends” sticker pack has also been unveiled on Facebeook Messenger to celebrate the occasion.

Instead, this is Facebook’s latest attempt to make us think the site is a basic part of the human experience.

According to Facebook, these videos are available to “most people in the world”. Sometimes friendship moves the world.

Started in Mark Zuckerburg’s college dorm room at Harvard since 2004; Facebook has come a long way from its humble beginnings, for that reason, showing its users recognition of their support throughout past years.