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Happy 5th Birthday, Facebook! But Will We Care Next Year?
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They grow up so fast don't they?Facebook is celebrating their 5th birthday today. The social networking website, founded by then-19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard dorm, has 150 million users around the world, and Zuckerberg is spending his 20s laughing his way to the bank.
With the state of the global economy, some experts believe the site can't claim runaway success yet, CNN reports. Although it's very popular, it's not de rigeur for most people like Google for example, and may find itself struggling to be relevant in the coming years. But Zuckerberg isn't swayed; he says there's plenty to look forward to: "Building and moving quickly for five years hasn't been easy, and we aren't finished [...] The challenge motivates us to keep innovating and pushing technical boundaries to produce better ways to share information."
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