Wednesday, September 25, 2013


Systems Update of Facebook

Before facebook has become one of the most popular social networking sites on the internet there are distinct transformation have been over the years (from the year 2004 to 2013).


What’s amazing about this article? Is that it only highlights the major changes for the systems update of the facebook profile from the date it started.

Back in the year of 2004 month of February, thefacebook.com was first launched at Harvard University limited only for the Harvard students that operated and owned by the name itself Facebook founded by Mark Zucker burg and it was Slowly opened for Columbia, Yale and Stanford University that reached One Million users even though the news feed didn't exists, no photos being uploaded, no wall to put your information, no events to add and no pages yet to explore.





At the year of 2005 Mark Zuckerburg purchased the domain name of “facebook.com” for $200,000.00 and introduced photos for the site.






The year 2006 facebook started to be known. After adding some features like the Mini news feed, adding profile pictures, and the share and poke buttons. 


In the year 2007 the site gained 30 Million of users, for the users have the privileged to interact more with each other’s profiles by sending a virtual gift to his/her friend.








By the year 2008 Facebook Chat was launched! More language translations are being released and Microsoft Live Search added to 
Facebook Search for convenience. 
The Wall not became just 
a profile but a universal point of sharing within Facebook Network. In this year, the year 2008 Facebook Chat was launched! More language translations are being released and Microsoft Live Search added to Facebook Search for convenience. The Wall not became just a profile but a universal point of sharing within Facebook Network. In this year,make an update status, upload a photo or share a link to their profile.


Drastic changes in the Facebook Layout at the year of 2009; Like button, addictive games like Farmville, birthday reminders, new Home Page design, real-time stream, new filters, improved Publisher, 
highlights and tagging friend



in the status update are being introduced. Over 300 Million users have signed-in in the site by September 15 to be exact at the said year.


The year 2010 facebook have 
the ability to add a location to a status, reply to comments through email, received updates from Applications through Email, faster simpler photo uploading (HTML), new facebook profile design (includes the new top and left menu) and the upgraded photo tagging– a face recognition tagging.



Year 2011: Facebook brought notifications to the top of navigation bar following yet another redesign. It features Phone Application, timeline platform profile, subscriber button, recent story filter, top stories on news feed, improvements to games and the thicker.



And in 2012 Listening Music with your Friends in facebook is possible! The Apps for Timeline launched, allowing frictionless sharing, Facebook Timeline for Pages and Facebook Interest Lists was present.








Now at 2013, the News Feed and the entire layout of Facebook is redesigned to get you to spend even more time on the social network. It now offers a variety of news feeds, like "All Friends," "Following," "Games," and "Photos."