Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004. It was by no means the first social network to really catch on, that was probably MySpace which launched in August 2003. Nevertheless, Facebook became the most powerful and influential now in existence, currently boasting 2.89 billion monthly active users.
Zuckerberg did well to ramp up Facebook’s numbers. By this day in 2004, the same year as the launch, it reached the milestone of having a million signups. It lived in the shadow of the likes of MySpace for a while, but by 2008 the rivals were neck and neck with 115 million monthly active users each. Facebook’s acceleration and take up among the populace worked in its favour. Meanwhile, MySpace languished, but it still exists, and may one day rise like a phoenix…
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