Facebook. An idea, 5 years and 150 million users.

The recipe for cooking large ideas seems to be always the same:

A basement or a garage, a few piles computers, misunderstood nerd and much time spent on what the rest of your friends (not nerds) considered to be a great loss of time.

Well, the time does not return to allow us to reformulate the views, but if to realize as we tend to be wrong.

19-Year-old Mark Zuckerber, without House, car or work, was engaged to do those things for geeks that mothers do not understand; one of his hobbies was "wasting time" creating, without charging a penny, a page to communicate with their peers at Harvard.
Today 5 years later; the idea of Mark, casts these numeritos:

150 million usuarios.10.8% growth mensual200 millions of unique visitors in December ' 08 (against 100 of MySpace) 80 billion of pages viewed in Dec ' 084.1 billions of photos guardadas28 millions of photos uploaded by millions of monthly searches día600

Would this guy kicked off closer of the simple idea of promoting communication with their peers or the know a girl, and not the unseat MySpace or revolutionize the era of social networks.
The truth is that to this day, after have done things as rejecting an offer Yahoo by a billion of dollars at age 21, Zuckerberg cosiguio all of that and get me the impression that any other woman also

If you're interested, himself Mr Facebook in photos of your profile, shows you in images the evolution in the design of Facebook since its birth.

For the future, Zuckerberg said to continue to work to "make the world more open and provide a place for everyone to express their ideas," although I would that is more focused on achieving all these users to translate into economic benefits. One of the aspects that most been criticised to social networks, but that is apparently finding your answer.

Happy Birthday Facebook!

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