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Very interesting. For those curious, this covers the period where Facebook grew from ~50m to ~500m monthly users (depending on what months are included). Some selected events from Facebook's history in this era:

2007/01 m.facebook.com launched 2007/05 Facebook Platform launched 2007/11 Facebook removes "is" from status updates 2008/06 Facebook settled with the Winklevii 2008/11 Facebook Credits launched 2009/02 The like button is added [1] 2009/09 Facebook announces they are cash flow positive 2009/09 Facebook launches @-tagging friends 2010/06 Comments now have like buttons 2010/10 Fincher's movie The Social Network is released

[1] I honestly had forgotten that this wasn't always part of Facebook, but it's apparently true: https://techcrunch.com/2009/02/09/facebook-activates-like-bu...




And that's what happens when noprocrast interacts with the lack of preview and time-limited editing. This is what I meant:

   2007/01 m.facebook.com launched
   2007/05 Facebook Platform launched
   2007/11 Facebook removes "is" from status updates
   2008/06 Facebook settled with the Winklevii
   2008/11 Facebook Credits launched
   2009/02 The like button is added [1]
   2009/09 Facebook announces they are cash flow positive 
   2009/09 Facebook launches @-tagging friends
   2010/06 Comments now have like buttons
   2010/10 Fincher's movie The Social Network is released
Ahem.


I remember having a lot of fun writing status updates that began with ’is’ back in the day. I can’t believe the last time was more than ten years ago...


I wonder when the "how you met" which used to generate all kinds of absurdist responses disappeared, perhaps to encourage more friending between people that actually had no clue how or if they'd met.

And no Facebook timeline should fail to mention when they removed the Top Gun quotes from the bottom of the page.




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