Facebook is 20 today

Facebook is 20 years old today.

The first iteration of the site was launched by Zuckerberg on the 4th February 2004 in his Harvard dorm room from his personal laptop.

I opened a profile on the site in 2006 but rarely share anything there now, preferring instead the immediacy of WhatsApp for keeping in touch with friends and family.

As the bullying, hate posting and sexual abuse continues to escalate one does wonder what the long term negative effects of digital social media platforms are having on society and wether there will be gradual migration away from their use, especially as the various generations mature.

I have an account but I don't use it. I think I posted some photos of a birthday celebration in about 2017. That was the last time.

@divegeester said
Facebook is 20 years old today.

The first iteration of the site was launched by Zuckerberg on the 4th February 2004 in his Harvard dorm room from his personal laptop.

I opened a profile on the site in 2006 but rarely share anything there now, preferring instead the immediacy of WhatsApp for keeping in touch with friends and family.

As the bullying, hate postin ...[text shortened]... r there will be gradual migration away from their use, especially as the various generations mature.

I am not on Facebook. I like WhatsApp now owned by FB.

@the-gravedigger said
I am not on Facebook. I like WhatsApp now owned by FB.

WhatsApp I use a lot. Family. Friends. I manage my work with it and interact with clients. I use it for sending people files. For sharing links. It's the only type of phone I use. I use it for making videos. I use it to organize and make radio programmes.

I rarely use it, I prefer instagram which is my gardening and recipe scrapbook.

@drewnogal said
I rarely use it, I prefer instagram which is my gardening and recipe scrapbook.

Scrap Book sounds lile a good name for RHP forums,blenty of verbal thumpings take place here.

@david-burton said
Scrap Book sounds lile a good name for RHP forums,blenty of verbal thumpings take place here.

Blenty of fun and creativity too 😀

@drewnogal said
Blenty of fun and creativity too 😀

Careful you don’t get someone blent out of shape 😂

@drewnogal said
Blenty of fun and creativity too 😀

Its the only chess site I have been on that has mob rule,some days its like the St Balantines day Mascara.powder puffs at dawn.

@david-burton said
Its the only chess site I have been on that has mob rule,some days its like the St Balantines day Mascara.powder puffs at dawn.

We are not a mob sir, we are an unruly collective.

@david-burton said
Its the only chess site I have been on that has mob rule,some days its like the St Balantines day Mascara.powder puffs at dawn.

No one is forcing you to be here; stop complaining. You sound a typical socialist whiner.

@divegeester said
Facebook is 20 years old today.

The first iteration of the site was launched by Zuckerberg on the 4th February 2004 in his Harvard dorm room from his personal laptop.

I opened a profile on the site in 2006 but rarely share anything there now, preferring instead the immediacy of WhatsApp for keeping in touch with friends and family.

As the bullying, hate postin ...[text shortened]... r there will be gradual migration away from their use, especially as the various generations mature.

20 years, my how time fly's.

I started a FB account to get details on an upcoming class reunion in 2013. but shut it down a few years later. It was fun for a short time, but got boring after awhile.

Personally, I think social media is overrated. We have snail and email, fax, phone, text, skype, zoom and other means to stay connected - do we need social media on top of all that? I think not.

@divegeester said
No one is forcing you to be here; stop complaining. You sound a typical socialist whiner.

you leave my politics out of it and I wont ridicule your childish religion.oops

@mchill said
20 years, my how time fly's.

I started a FB account to get details on an upcoming class reunion in 2013. but shut it down a few years later. It was fun for a short time, but got boring after awhile.

Personally, I think social media is overrated. We have snail and email, fax, phone, text, skype, zoom and other means to stay connected - do we need social media on top of all that? I think not.

I like it for 1 thing Facetime,I can see my relatives in Oz anytime for free.

Facebook sounds like a safe place to be, away from the incessant Twins. The twins are not identical, thank God. The tiny-minded one should be sent to reform school.