Facebook in 2012: A Billion Users and Counting - Aurora Facebook is the most popular social network on the planet. It celebrated its eighth birthday on Feb. 4, 2012. Although Facebook has only been around since 2004, it certainly seems like much longer. For many of us, it feels like we've grown up habitually checking to see who has liked our photos and commented on our status updates. We love to use it. Regardless, 2012 was arguably Facebook's biggest year in terms of noteworthy accomplishments. Here's a look back at Facebook's biggest milestones of 2012: 1 Billion Users Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the network had surpassed 1 billion active users on Oct. 4. The billion active Facebook users have forged more than 140 billion friendships. To celebrate these accomplishments, Facebook released its first commercial, which compared the network to, among other things, chairs, doorbells and a great nation. IPO Woes and Instagram After years of posturing, Facebook became a publicly tradable company on May 18. Zuckerberg Ties the Knot
Facebook Hits One Billion Active Users Poet Ink Community untitled Comment dénoncer une infraction au droit d’auteur ? | Pages d’aide de Facebook Signalement des infractions aux droits d’auteur | Pages d’aide de Facebook About Intellectual Property | Facebook Help Center Comment publier et partager | Pages d’aide de Facebook Facebook Privacy Notice Claim: Posting a legal notice on your Facebook wall will protect you from having all your Facebook posts made public. Origin: Messages about protecting your copyright or privacy rights on Facebook by posting a particular legal notice to your Facebook wall are all variants of an item circulated several years ago positing that posting a similar notice on a web site would protect that site's operators from prosecution for piracy. In both cases the claims were erroneous, an expression of the mistaken belief the use of some simple legal enough to ask the right question or post a pertinent immunize one from some undesirable legal consequence. The law just doesn't work that way. In response to rumors about copyright issues that began circulating in after Facebook announced they were considering revoking users' rights to vote on proposed policy changes, the company issued a statement noting that: Similarly, ABC News reported: