Yesterday, Facebook the largest social networking site has reached its milestone of 500 million users which is still growing faster. To celebrate this special event they has launched a new application known as Facebook Stories. This new app will allow the Facebook users to share their personal experiences on the impact of social networking site has had on their lives.
For those who don’t know, this news was officially announced by the founder and CEO of Facebook whose name is Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook has changed the way many people communicate with each other and it lets its millions of users share personal thoughts and images with their network of friends.
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According to blog post posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook blog:
As of this morning, 500 million people all around the world are actively using Facebook to stay connected with their friends and the people around them.
This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook around the world. Now a lot more people have the opportunity to stay connected with the people they care about.
To celebrate, we’ve put together a collection of stories you’ve shared with us about the impact Facebook and your friends have had on your lives.
We’re launching a new application called Facebook Stories where you can share your own story and read hundreds of others, categorized by themes and locations around the world. These stories include:
- Ben Saylor, a 17-year-old high school student, who turned to Facebook to organize a community effort to rebuild the Pioneer Playhouse, the oldest outdoor theater in Kentucky, after it was damaged by floods in May.
- Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who, during his time in office, would go jogging with 100 of his fans from Facebook.
- Holly Rose, a mother in Phoenix, who credits a friend’s status message telling women to check for breast cancer with her being diagnosed in time to treat the disease. She used Facebook for support during treatment and became a prevention advocate herself.
Our mission at Facebook is to help make the world more open and connected. Stories like these are examples of that mission and are both humbling and inspiring. I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started 6 years ago.