Facebook Turns 12: Here’s How the Social Media Giant Has Grown

To celebrate its 12th birthday, Facebook is rolling out personalized Friends Day videos to its millions of users. If you’re wondering what Friends Day is, don’t worry-you haven’t missed out on celebrating this important holiday for your entire life.

With the passage of time, Facebook has earned quite a name among the people and has turned into a necessity. It coincides with the 12th anniversary of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg starting the social network in his Harvard University dorm room – 12 years that have seen him become one of the world’s richest and most powerful tech executives, with a fortune estimated at more than $45 billion.

Facebook’s “degrees of separation” have shrunk as more people have signed on over the years.

For starters, Facebook’s sample size of 1.59 billion people – the number of people that use the social network – is far smaller than the 7.4 billion people that now inhabit our blue planet.

Facebook has calculated how connected the world is in honour of Friends Day.

During the company’s F8 developers’ conference las year, Zuckerberg said his goal was to eventually connect “everybody” through not only Facebook, but through a whole family of Facebook-connected apps, services and tools – eventually, even through virtual reality technologies.

You can also add stickers to your and your friend’s posts.

Your game of “Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon” just got a whole lot shorter, thanks to Facebook. Try 3.57-at least on Facebook.

There are also two new friendship-themed sticker packages available, which can be sent to other users via Facebook’s Messenger app. “The world is more closely connected that you might think”, the data scientists noted in their research blog today.