Facebook is celebrating its 10th birthday today, which is quite an age in the tech world. Today, it is hard to imagine an online social life without this social network. And the future?
10 years is definitely a milestone at which even the famous will have to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder Facebook look back and definitely think about the future of your business. Facebook it is no longer a student project, but a project whose users together form the population of the largest country in the world, together already today 1.2 billion of users. Billions of different pieces of information and content are uploaded to it daily. Ter they survive on it the maximum allotted time on the Internet.
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Facebook is losing its "cool" at the age of 10
Facebook deals with the typical syndrome of societies, which are becoming too large and in which rapid changes are more difficult. It is also for this reason that before two years severely delayed in development mobile applications, which has been improving in the last year. Philosophy "mobile first", which he accepted as his too Mark Zuckerberg, opens the door new generations of users, for whom a mobile smart device is their first contact with their own Internet. And yet it seems so Facebook losing his "cool” in this most important generation of young people. The generation that guarantees Facebook the next 10 years, or the future. Usip right this generation is, according to sociologists, a completely normal thing, since new generations always resist the standards and norms of older generations. This adolescent rebel is looking for new ones communication channels and ways. And also because of this fact, Facebook is not overly concerned about certain indicators that do not reflect positive trends.
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Surviving also by buying - cool - projects
Facebook knows that it cannot change itself to suit everyone's taste, so it is always on the lookout for interesting projects. Thus, one of his biggest purchases in recent years"Instagram", despite the fact that they bought it, it remained a completely independent project in its field. The desire to buy cool projects is also shown when trying to buy, extremely popular applications among teenagers, SnapChat, for which it is Facebook offered $3 billion – yes, you heard that right. And were rejected by the app owner SnapChat.
The company's earnings are skyrocketing
7.7 billions of dollars in revenue per year 2013 and the high profits and the trend of revenue growth, which is exceptional, currently provide the company with such a level of revenue that at Facebook they can comfortably think about strategic moves and buy anyone who could threaten them in any way from the very start. At the same time, they are developing new branches of the project, such as the "Paper" application, which has been available since yesterday.
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Mark Zuckerberg on the 10th anniversary of Facebook
