Began coding the site which was officially launched in February of the same year. "Thefacebook.com" was the first and only student-only social networking platform. It is Sean Parker who as president decides to change the name to simply "Facebook" in August . From here on the history of Facebook is a continuous escalation: ever-growing users openness to anyone over initially it was reserved only for students the introduction of the famous like button the launch of Facebook Messenger in the acquisition of Instagram in for the incredible sum of billion dollars,.
The unsuccessful attempt to acquire Snapchat and the related "revenge" resulting in the birth of Insta gram Stories . Another successful acquisition is that of WhatsApp : Facebook bought the instant messaging system in for billion dollars. In Facebook also launched itself into the world of corporate social networks founding Facebook Workplace if you want to know more: Facebook mobile app development service Workplace: how our and your company is changing now used by more than thousand companies in the world we of Digital Dictionary included In June Facebook changed its " mission " : from now on it will be " bring the world closer together.
The previous one referred to building an open and connected world "Give people the power to share and make the world open and connected" . With this change Zuckerberg announced the " engaged " turning point of his social network in line with the community manifesto published at the beginning of . “ Over the past years we have remained focused on making the world more open and connected . We're not done but I used to think that if we just gave people a chance to express themselves and helped them connect the world would get better on its own.