[On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. Facebook social networking service originally launched as FaceMash on October 28, 2003, before changing its name to TheFacebook on February 4, 2004.]
“Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.” – Mark Zuckerberg
“Facebook creeps me out.” – Markus Persson
“Facebook is my life.” – Hailee Steinfeld
“Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for – looking up exes to see how fat they got?” ― Bill Maher
“In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.” ― Rebecca MacKinnon
“You have five hundred Facebook ‘friends’? That simply means you’ve redefined ‘friend’ to make it something like ‘a contact I exchange data with’.” ― Hugh Mackay
“Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.” – Richard Stallman
