{"id":1065,"date":"2014-02-04T14:54:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2014-02-04T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T14:54:19","slug":"facebook-celebrates-10th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/facebook-celebrates-10th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook celebrates 10th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1066\" alt=\"Facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Facebook-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>There are ten candles on the Facebook birthday cake. A phenomenal decade. Ten years ago it did not exist now, it has 1.23 billion users; to put that in perspective it\u2019s something like the population of India.<br \/>\nIt was the vision of Mark Zuckerberg. The anniversary comes on the back of soaring profits \u2013 $1.5 billion (1.1 billion euros) for 2013.<br \/>\nDespite a shaky 2012 initial public offering of shares, they are now trading at $60 dollars (44 euros). That puts the estimated net worth of 29-year-old Zuckerberg around $30 billion (22 billion euros).<br \/>\nThe company has had to address legal issues: last year Facebook paid $20 million (14.8 million euros) in a class action lawsuit relating to users\u2019 images being used in advertising content.<br \/>\nResearchers at Princeton University predict a bumpy ride for the social network site in the next decade, saying its user base will desert it as it falls out of fashion.<br \/>\nUsing the same research methods as the university Facebook responded saying Princeton may be in danger of disappearing entirely.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/facebook-celebrates-10th-birthday\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are ten candles on the Facebook birthday cake. A phenomenal decade. Ten years ago it did not exist now, it has 1.23 billion users; to put that in perspective it\u2019s something like the population of India. It was the vision of Mark Zuckerberg. The anniversary comes on the back of soaring profits \u2013 $1.5 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}