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Recommended Zuckerberg lied to Congress about data scandal, Congressman claims. Already subscribed? Log in. Forgotten your password? This came after the company acquired Beluga, a group messaging service, back in March. Facebook had now become a huge name, a globally used website, and at the head of the social media revolution. Not too shabby from someone who was still in school just a few years prior. In April we see Facebook make a major acquisition: Instagram. This was just a month before the years big event.
The IPO. Come May and Zuckerberg was finally ready to take Facebook public. The IPO was dogged with accusations of improper behaviour by underwriters and technical issues, while Facebook lost a quarter of its stock value in the process.
All by the end of the same month. Over 40 lawsuits relating to the IPO were then filed. There were reports they they secretly cut revenue estimates mid-IPO, while there have been accusations information was fed to the underwriters from Facebook that led them to cash out.
On top of that there were problems with trading glitches and botched orders, with Facebook also being accused of running their IPO like a pump and dump scheme. Overall, not the smoothest of IPOs. But, of course. Facebook carried on nonetheless. By October the platform saw its 1 billionth registered user. In , a year on from the IPO and despite all the troubles it brought, Facebook joined the Fortune at number There was now no doubting the company was a major institution, especially as its global reach increased.
But now its popularity caused problems. An platform open to everyone is on the surface a wonderful idea. Facebook had gained a major abuse and hate speech problem and seemed ill-equipped to deal with it.
Campaigning from groups like the Everyday Sexism Project and wider complaints from the user base, led to Facebook to take action. To try and tackle they issue they announced a number of changes:. February, saw Facebooks ten year anniversary.
An incredible amount had been achieved since the dorm rooms of Harvard. So what was next? First up were strong mobile figures. Facebook had been a proponent of a good mobile experience for a long time. This paid off with the first three months of the year seeing 1bn users log into the platform using a mobile device. We also saw another major acquisition. While Facebook already had a messaging system, this acquisition gave the access to WhatsApps younger user base and their overseas users. And the following month there was another major buy.
This time the virtual reality company, Oculus VR. April saw another big change. Despite owning a technically competing app, Facebook decided to remove Messenger from the main app and make it its own application. This mean people who have to download it separately to use it.
As of April , Messenger boats 1. In June it was revealed Facebook had been experimenting on their users. Essentially the platform chose to show you certain content in an attempt to influence your mood. Unsurprisingly many were not happy being tested on. The year started off with some more strong financial news.
So with the money flowing and acquisitions opening new horizons, things were looking good. Except from something dark and horrible appearing in the distance. Social platforms, including Facebook, were being flooded with fake news stories and false information on any and all subjects. These were often written by sites trying to drive traffic for ad revenue, or to exact some kind of political aim. Either way the truth was not central to their plans.
This was an issue for Facebook who have gone on and on about how many people use their site regularly. Now that just advertised millions of people were being exposed to lies on their platform. They decided they had to do something. If this happened enough a note would be added for other users saying the article had been flagged as fake, while their algorithm would also factor in reports.
A more positive development was the release of Facebook reactions. By no means a major update, it showed how Facebook were still looking at some of their original functions for improvements. Then in May Facebook begun to roll out Instant Articles.
These meant publishers could set up versions of their articles that would be hosted directly by Facebook. Loading speeds would be cut dramatically, while the publishers could get revenue through advertising. This was after the platform released stats from the three months ending in June that site was used by 1. In the same month, a study from the Pew Research Centre highlighted why fake news on Facebook was so important.
This made Facebook ripe for the sowing and dissemination of disinformation. There were a few other notable releases in including video calling in Messenger, the release of Facebook Live to verified public figures, and video. Into , and as the issue of false news stories and hoaxes rumbled on, Facebook announced they now had 1. Very strong numbers impossible to argue with. So people took to arguing on their timelines instead. They announced that posts from your friends and families would take precedence in your feed.
Great for family holiday photos, not so good for news outlets. But then in August Facebook threw publishers a bone in the form of another algorithm change. Now the platform would judge which stories were informative and then put them in front of people where the piece aligned with their interests.
Although for those producing high quality journalism, they must have been frustrated that made-up news was still getting so much traction. In the midst of this, Facebook announced a new platform: Workplace. Aimed at organisations, it essentially acted as an internal social platform for companies where employees could communicate with each other.
Then in September a crisis hit as it was revealed Facebook had been publishing misleading metrics. The company was forced to apologise for miscalculating video views and the amount of time user spent watching them. Not great timing for a company trying to fight the spread of disinformation on its own platform.
By the end of the year, fake news, as in the term, was dominating conversation. People even went so far as to claim misinformation spread on platforms like it, and Twitter, swayed the election in favor of Trump, if not increasing political polarisation in the US and beyond. Zuckerberg himself commented on this, rubbishing the idea that Facebook could have influenced the election. Whatever the truth, fake news got far more engagement than traditional media outlets in the run up to the Presidential elections.
By December, Facebook changed their tune a slight. Although just tests, clearly Facebook were worried their reputation had been damaged after a month of negative press.
With strong financials bringing in the new year, Facebook first major announcement of related to journalism unsurprisingly. In an attempt to position itself as a company that wanted proper journalists to succeed they launched the Facebook Journalism Project.
The first quarter saw a number of updates to the platform too. There were new options to help others access food and shelter in emergencies, reactions added to Messenger, and new suicide prevention tools. But, inevitably, attention came back to fake news. In April , Facebook announced even more plans to tackle the spread of false information. They said they would be taking three approaches: disrupting economic incentives hitting traffic to websites full of fake stories and hoaxes , building new products ranking changes and continuing user reporting and working with fact checkers , and helping people make better decisions the Facebook Journalism Project and creating a global consortium working to help people spot fake news.
Facebook continued to roll out some interesting updates, particularly the release of Facebook Spaces. This came off the back off more immersive photos and videos released earlier in the year which worked with VR headsets. Over the next few months other updates were rolled out. Facebook continued making tweaks to try and combat fake news and video clickbait, the news feed saw some slight design changes, and they improved their clicks and impressions reporting.
If you want to get technical, Andy, you could also complain about the Declaration of Independence one. Hilarious is what it is. Unless you were being ironical. Was that a rant? In fact, there are many scientists who have found flaws in the Darwin Theory. Check out the human genome project and the family of man documentary from Nat Geo. The fossils are there, just not uncovered yet. If not evolution, what? How about a little of both—God put it all in motion 6 million years ago and then evolution kicked in.
We were on the same evolutionaly trajectory—humans went further. I do agree with the previous posts about the Columbia Shuttle insert.. Have you ever read a Facebook page…. Thankyou for making so much fun of everyone. All in good fun you serious buggers below. Sensitive issue is sensitive issue. Its funny, its a joke.
No one seems to be complaining about their long lost family members died on the titanic!? The Church: Nah, ur fine. Loved it!! I could just picture all these things happening! What a great way to make history more realistic!! Do you know for a fact that they are the originators? Lily, I like that one. Thanks so much for linking to it. I added it to the site so others can enjoy it too.
Haha, Why does a spaceshuttle have a facebook? Hahaha, inanimate objects. Enron: How can we make a little more money off this situation??? CEO: I got it! Sell shares like wildfire to these suckers!!! Thanks for taking the time to reply. I previously responded to a few others comments from folks claiming to know the source of this.
To be honest, it was hard coming up with photography related jokes, but hopefully you can get a few laughs out of them. It was all funny until the Challenger one. I enjoyed the rest, a lot. I was sent this by a friend earlier this week-laughed my you-know-WHAT off! I have to think up new ones now specific to my industries and to my work-like non-profits and fitness clubs! So the humor concept and purpose succeeded, but only for a split second.
Good, except for the dinosaur section. Brontosaurus never existed. Ironically, Marsh in a rush to name as many dinosaurs as possible named the imaginary Brontosaurus after he had already named the real Apatosaurus. Regardless, Apatasaurus and even Camarasaurus became extinct in the Jurassic period about million years ago.
This means that they became extinct 85 million years before the asteroid collided with Earth, whereas you only live 65 million years afterward…. The replies should also be from the time the originals were posted. If Facebook Existed Years Ago. Social Media Facebook. August 30, at am.
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