Facebook's 18th birthday today:Zuckerberg started journey with friends, created Facemas website; 1.92 billion users today; Know the interesting story of the formation of Facebook

 Today is Facebook's birthday. With this, Facebook has completed 18 years today. Facebook's birthday is celebrated every year on 4 February. Mark Zuckerberg along with some of his friends created Facebook in 2004 while studying at Harvard University. At the time it was launched, it was named 'The Facebook', which was later changed to Facebook. Before Facebook, Zuckerberg launched a website called Facemass on October 28, 2003. Its purpose was to keep the college and school students connected, so that the contact with them remains forever.

Zuckerberg was the first to put pictures of some boys and girls in it. Through this, he told that who is the hotter of the two people here, although later those people opposed it and said that it is against his privacy, because these pictures have been put without his permission. However, it is said that Facemas had shown the way to Mark Zuckerberg to create Facebook.

At the same time, by the end of 2004, Facebook had 1 billion users. After the popularity of Facebook, many investors invested in it. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire at the age of just 23.

Father's book became strength
Mark Zuckerberg was fond of working on the computer since childhood. He often used to spend his time programming on the computer. During that time his father gave him a C++ book. After reading this, Mark's attachment to the computer increased. Then he started programming and from here the story of his growth begins.

Facebook users decreased for the first time in 18 years
According to the quarterly report released by Meta, Facebook lost half a million (about 5 million) global daily users in the fourth quarter of 2021 based on the previous quarter. This is the first time since 2004 that there has been a decline in its Daily Active Users (DAU). The company's profits also declined during this period. User growth for WhatsApp and Instagram was also non-existent.

The number of daily active global users of Facebook has come down to 1.929 billion from 1.930 billion a quarter ago. In addition, other meta apps like WhatsApp and Instagram also saw very low user growth.

3 controversies related to Facebook in 2021

1. Wrong post related to the epidemic went viral
The company promoted many fake profiles related to the Kovid-19 epidemic and vaccination on Facebook and Instagram. Due to this, 3 lakh 70 thousand followers of these profiles were made last year.

Newsguard has done this research related to Facebook. This is an organization that monitors fake news, hate speech, inflammatory content coming on the Internet. It was tracking 20 accounts, pages and groups. In the groups promoted by Facebook on its different platforms, there was talk of killing children in the name of experiment.

2. Human trafficking from Facebook's trade tool
Facebook whistleblower Frances Hogen, in a statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission, made a new disclosure saying that even today if you search 'Khadima' or 'Meds' in Arabic on Facebook, then Africans And South Asian women's age and their photos appear to be listed with price. Any user can hire them according to their choice.

Facebook has told the Associated Press that cases of exploitation of foreign workers in the Middle East are constantly coming to the fore. We are taking this problem seriously. We have been battling the problem of human trafficking on our platform for many years.

3. Facebook, which has taken the form of 'Fakebook' in India, has
told in another disclosure that in India this platform is taking the form of 'Fakebook' (book of fake content). This group also includes 'The New York Times'. For this, Hogen has collected the documents of these reports-studies. Based on these, she is constantly making disclosures related to Facebook's work culture, internal flaws etc. According to the 'Facebook Papers' made public by him, elections are being influenced in India through fake news from fake accounts.

Facebook has offices in more than 70 cities of the world. Talking about the people working in Facebook, there are about 45 thousand full-time employees in it. About 140 million people connect with their customers through Facebook.