Facebook’s birthday
Facebook turned 10 years old this month. If you’re between the ages of 18 and 22, that means the social networking site has been around for about half of your lifetime.
The Internet has changed our lives, but Facebook has allowed us to remember those changes — for better, as staff writer Zoë DiGiorgio explains below …
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… or worse, as senior staff writer Warren Zhang found out when he reviewed his own Facebook look-back video.
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Facebook has made changes along the way, too, including the recent debut of its alternative app, Paper. Senior staff writer Beena Raghavendran was initially thrilled with Paper, but then she changed her mind. (Read on to find out why.)
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Even we at The Diamondback have changed. The release of Facebook’s look-back videos prompted us to create our own, featuring Diamondback pages from as far back as 1931, that you can see above.
