Oh no no, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t opened a new website. I’m referring to the only website everybody knows Zuckerberg owns, facebook.
Now being the lazy guy I am, the only knowledge I have about “thefacebook“‘s not so humble origins is from The Social Network, as do most of you I hope. So yeah, facebook started out as a website to connect Harvard students and the “elite” who owned a harvard.edu email.
But if it would remain limited to that, facebook wouldn’t have as it proudly flaunts on its newsroom page, “More than a billion monthly active users as of December 2012”. Being the brilliant website and phenomenon facebook is, it was bound to be a super-hit once made public. But even the obsoleted Yahoo Messenger, Orkut or Google Plus started out like that. What made facebook going? As Jesse Eisenberg (Mark Zuckerberg) says about facebook in the movie, “It won’t be finished. That’s the point. The way fashion’s never finished”. There we have it. It’s all about taking it all down and re-inventing it regularly.
Facebook as all of us users know, has been through a lot of stages right in front of our eyes. It’s been growing and becoming better every passing stage. It has the ability to adapt, grow and fit in around us.
And that’s only because of one reason: We all are facebook.
BOMBAYNERDS 