Facebook is 20 today

Facebook is 20 years old today.

The first iteration of the site was launched by Zuckerberg on the 4th February 2004 in his Harvard dorm room from his personal laptop.

I opened a profile on the site in 2006 but rarely share anything there now, preferring instead the immediacy of WhatsApp for keeping in touch with friends and family.

As the bullying, hate posting and sexual abuse continues to escalate one does wonder what the long term negative effects of digital social media platforms are having on society and wether there will be gradual migration away from their use, especially as the various generations mature.

I have an account but I don't use it. I think I posted some photos of a birthday celebration in about 2017. That was the last time.

@divegeester said
Facebook is 20 years old today.

The first iteration of the site was launched by Zuckerberg on the 4th February 2004 in his Harvard dorm room from his personal laptop.

I opened a profile on the site in 2006 but rarely share anything there now, preferring instead the immediacy of WhatsApp for keeping in touch with friends and family.

As the bullying, hate postin ...[text shortened]... r there will be gradual migration away from their use, especially as the various generations mature.

@the-gravedigger said
I am not on Facebook. I like WhatsApp now owned by FB.

I rarely use it, I prefer instagram which is my gardening and recipe scrapbook.

@drewnogal said
I rarely use it, I prefer instagram which is my gardening and recipe scrapbook.

@david-burton said
Scrap Book sounds lile a good name for RHP forums,blenty of verbal thumpings take place here.

@drewnogal said
Blenty of fun and creativity too 😀

@drewnogal said
Blenty of fun and creativity too 😀

@david-burton said
Its the only chess site I have been on that has mob rule,some days its like the St Balantines day Mascara.powder puffs at dawn.

@david-burton said
Its the only chess site I have been on that has mob rule,some days its like the St Balantines day Mascara.powder puffs at dawn.

@divegeester said
Facebook is 20 years old today.

The first iteration of the site was launched by Zuckerberg on the 4th February 2004 in his Harvard dorm room from his personal laptop.

I opened a profile on the site in 2006 but rarely share anything there now, preferring instead the immediacy of WhatsApp for keeping in touch with friends and family.

As the bullying, hate postin ...[text shortened]... r there will be gradual migration away from their use, especially as the various generations mature.

@divegeester said
No one is forcing you to be here; stop complaining. You sound a typical socialist whiner.

@mchill said
20 years, my how time fly's.

I started a FB account to get details on an upcoming class reunion in 2013. but shut it down a few years later. It was fun for a short time, but got boring after awhile.

Personally, I think social media is overrated. We have snail and email, fax, phone, text, skype, zoom and other means to stay connected - do we need social media on top of all that? I think not.

Facebook sounds like a safe place to be, away from the incessant Twins. The twins are not identical, thank God. The tiny-minded one should be sent to reform school.