Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke Tuesday, Sept. 6, about the celebration of 10 years anniversary since the social media network has launched its "News Feed" feature.
Facebook News Feed After 10 Years
According to Forbes, Zuckerberk streamed a Facebook Live video about Facebook News Feed from the company's Menlo Park, California headquarters. The CEO of Facebook has also been joined by most of Facebook's original news feed team: former Facebook product manager Ruchi Sanghvi, chief product officer Chris Cox, VP of engineering Kang-Xing Jin and VP of ads and business platform Andrew Bosworth.
The video presented how the social media network has launched its News Feed feature 10 years ago and how this service has changed the way Facebook users consume digital information ever since. Zuckerberg said in the live stream that the launch of the Facebook News Feed feature was a really big change, but now the users of the social media network take it for granted. The CEO of Facebook also added that the feature was at the time totally new and "nothing like that existed in the world."
According to Business Insider, Chris Cox, current chief product officer at Facebook, said that the launch of the News Feed feature was the most "inglorious launch moment in history." He also added that the News Feed service in Facebook ended up by totally transforming the way we use the internet. Chris Cox is among the Facebook employees who worked on the first iteration of Facebook's News Feed format.
Before the News Feed, users of the Facebook social media network wouldn't see a collection of stories and updates and stories when they logged on. At the time, they only could get personal notifications like of anyone had written on their Wall or how many people had "Poked" them.
Also, it is worth to mention that at the time of the introduction of the News Feed feature in Facebook, the social network only had 10 million users. Today, by comparison, Facebook has reached around 1.71 billion monthly active users.
