Happy Birthday Facebook! Now we’re all friends of a friend

Last month, Zuckerberg posted on Facebook asking users to celebrate Facebook’s 12th anniversary as ‘Friends Day’.

Facebook claims it has brought the world closer together.

“Friendship isn’t a distraction from the meaningful things in life”.

Facebook’s released new “friendship” stickers for Friends Day.

According to USA Today, Zuckerberg said “we want to finish connecting everyone, we’re going to do it in partnership with governments and different companies all over the world”.

While some Facebook users are enjoying getting all mushy and sentimental over their Friends Day videos, others are finding it all a bit too much to stomach. No one sees the Friends Day clip until you post it. If this all sounds familiar to you, that’s because Facebook did something similar for its Year in Review videos a couple years back.

To commemorate the founding of the social network, it has come out with some special features that Facebook users can take advantage of on what the social network site calls “Friends Day”.

You can check out a sample Friend’s Day video below and then check your timeline today to edit and share your own custom one.

It’s not the first time Facebook has been used to calculate our collective “degrees of separation”.

The majority of people on the social media site have averages of between 2.9 and 4.2 degrees of separation, Facebook said. There are now 22,000 people in GirlCrew Facebook groups in more than 40 cities worldwide.

All 1.5 billion users can access the feature which creates a montage of photographs and memories that individuals have shared Facebook throughout the years. The good news is at least Facebook isn’t overtly trying to get you to buy gifts to send to your friends on its holiday.