Facebook's 10 anniversary, Zuckerberg's opportunities and challenges

Mark Zuckerberg, who founded "The Facebook" with his college alumni on February 4, 2004, was only a match for girls, but 10 years later, it has become the world's most famous social network, with a market capitalisation of $120 billion trillion, connecting people around the world.

According to Facebook's recent earnings, Facebook's active subscribers are up to 1.23 billion, up 16% from a year earlier, and mobile-active subscribers at 945 million, up 39% per cent year-on-year. Facebook earned 2.585 billion dollars in the quarter, with a net profit of $523 million.

A decade ago Facebook was just a playful experiment, and now it has grown into a towering tree. Facebook spent most of the decade in a smooth, fast-growing economy, but the early-stage sovereignty debate at one point left Facebook vulnerable to a crisis that was eventually blocked by Zuckerberg.

With the help of Sean Parker, Peter Thiel and others, Facebook moved to Silicon Valley, where the company's business was on track and rapidly evolving. In the June 2009, Facebook surpassed MySpace as the largest social network in the United States, while it also has a large number of users in Europe, Asia and other countries, becoming a social product for a wide range of users worldwide.

Zuckerberg's goal is to connect the world, and now his goal is one-third. But Facebook's challenge is not only to complete the remaining two-thirds of the target, but also to the continued emergence of competitors, such as the acquisition of Instagram, after reading the application Snapchat, or even other news agencies to the software WhatsApp, line, micro-letter and so on. In the technology industry, the history of the 10 is no longer young, and Facebook needs not only to continue to break through itself, but also to be wary of the subversion of new devices and new ways of communicating.

The following is the 10 anniversary of Zuckerberg's speech on Facebook, translated by Tencent Technology:

Today is the 10 anniversary of Facebook's founding.

So far it has been a magical journey and I am honored to be part of it. It's really hard to touch so many people, and I've been trying to remind myself to make the most of every day and maximize the impact.

Someone often asks me, do you predict Facebook today? Don't even think about it.

I remember the night before I started Facebook, I shared pizza with friends at school. I told them that I was very excited to be able to connect the students in the school together. But one day, someone will need to connect with the world.

I've always thought this was important-empowering people to share information, stay in touch, and build their own communities.

When I reflect on the past ten years, I ask myself a question: why did we build Facebook? We were just students. We have no resources compared with the big ones. If they had focused on solving the problem, they would have done it.

The only answer I can imagine is that we're just paying more attention.

We're building Facebook when people are skeptical that connecting the world is really important, and when others wonder if it's going to last, you've formed a lasting connection.

We are just more concerned about connecting the world than anyone else. This is still the case today.

This is why I am more excited about the development of the next ten years. In the first decade, we rely on our own efforts to build this network. Today, we have more resources to help people around the world solve bigger and more important problems.

Today, only one-third of the world's population is connected to the Internet. In the next ten years, we will have the opportunity and responsibility to connect the remaining Two-thirds people.

Today, social networking is mostly about sharing moments. In the next ten years, they will help you to answer questions and solve complex problems.

This year, we have only a few ways to share experiences. Over the next decade, technology will allow us to create more ways to capture and communicate new types of experience.

It's amazing to see you all using our tools to build our real community. You share the moments of happiness and sadness. You begin to set up new families and connect families together. You create new services, build new businesses, and you help each other in so many ways.

I am very pleased to be able to create these tools for you. I am deeply burdened with the responsibility to devote most of my time to this place and to serve you with all I can.

Thank you for making me part of this trip.