Facebook turns 9

Facebook turns 9-years-old today. Facebook was started on February 4, 2004 in a dorm of Harvard University by Mark Zuckerburg with the help of his four friends Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes.

The world's biggest social media site called thefacebook.com in its initial days, and was later renamed to just Facebook.

Today, US, Brazil, India, Indonesia and Mexico are the countries with maximum members on Facebook. It enjoys a huge lead over rival social networks like Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn.
It topped 1 bn users on September 14 2012 at 12.45 pm, while it crossed the 500-mn-member mark in July 2010. Since February 2009, Facebook has witnessed 1.13 tn users' likes, 219 bn photos being uploaded and 17 bn location-tagged pictures.

In October 2007, software giant Microsoft bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 mn. Search giant Google too is said to have offered partnership deal to Facebook. The deal was, however, rejected by Facebook.