Facebook's top ten milestones: 500 million users this July

Beijing Time October 8 news, according to foreign media reports, Facebook social networking sites from an obscure small web site to today's world-renowned large-scale sites, in a few years, experienced countless large and small things.　　Of these, 10 events were the milestones of Facebook's development: 1.2004 years March 1, Facebook went out of Harvard University. At first, Facebook was just hanging out on a Web site at Harvard University, the founder of Mark Zuckerberg's alma mater.　　Later, it gradually appeared in the Ivy League (translator Note: A consortium of eight universities and colleges in the northeastern United States, including Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth University, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, and the Boston University network.　　2. December 30, 2004, Facebook's users reached 1 million.　　About 1 million users have set up their own pages on the Facebook site.　　3. September 2, 2005, Facebook opened to American high schools.　　The social networking site is reaching out to American high schools.　　4. October 1, 2005, Facebook expanded internationally.　　Facebook began opening up to users in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Jersey.　　5. On September 5, 2006, Facebook launched News Feed. The Facebook website features news feeds and mini feeds (personal dynamics).　　This is a huge change for those who are not accustomed to being placed under the watchful eye of all their friends on the site.　　6. March 1, 2007, the Facebook site reached 1 million British users.　　In the UK, about 1 million users are logged on to the Facebook site.　　7. On May 24, 2007, Facebook opened its website to developers. Facebook's Web site opens its Application programming interface (API) to developers, allowing them to use the site's platform to post Plug-ins and games.　　This development has transformed the social networking site into a social gaming platform, offering a number of very popular games, such as Happy Farm.　　8. September 21, 2009, Facebook closed its advertising platform beacon. The advertising service aims to play the power of "interpersonal communication" marketing. It inserts the information from the user's news Feed from Facebook users on third party websites, making all their friends glance. The practice has been complained by some users who say they are not sure they want to share this information with their friends. In desperation, Zuckerberg had to admit it and change the rules of the beacon, and only if the user allowed it, could they insert the information into their news feeds.　　Beacon was forced to shut down completely in September 2009 after a group complaint from Facebook users.　　9. July 21, 2010, Facebook's users reached 500 million people.　　Facebook has a registered user of 500 million people, equivalent to 8% of the world's population.　　10. September 17, 2010, Facebook launched its places location service in the UK. Facebook has launched the same service in the UK after looking forward to its geographically shared services in the United States. The service allows users to "sign in" at hotels, bars and shops. It and Foursquare and other geographical location service providers related services constitute a direct competition. (Digging the shell net)