On Wednesday afternoon , on February 4, 2004 , Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launched a website called " The Facebook " . Was initially created in a way that people can distribute their peer information - only for students who went to Harvard University.
But what would happen if there would be invented ?
Had not had created Zuckenbergu Facebook , if he had not distributed in different colleges and eventually be used by anyone as of September 13, 2006 ? Each happen if he did not exist button " Like" ? 1.23 billion people do not like using the social network on computers , their phones or tablets ?
We can not know for sure what would have happened . But the effort of the imagination to life without Facebook makes us reflect about how he changed the world during the first decade .
If Facebook did not exist ...
Friendster ... would not lead the Internet . Before Zuck to launch early version of Facebook in his dorm , social network websites included in the category of " hot " . The basic idea brings us back in time , to 1997 , when they appeared with a new network, but that did not succeed , named SixDegrees.com .
And then in 2002 , it was revealed Friendster - i, who brought with him the concept of the large audience and seemed to have the potential to turn into one of the largest property web. This website focuses on meetings between people , and reached its peak before any Harvard student had a Facebook address . Biles and the inventor of Friendster 's Jonathan Abrams , blames lack of service more than Facebook itself to demolish this website .
MySpace will capitulate ... with or without the presence of Facebook
Years before the creation of Facebook , MySpace was a lot of clicking website , and who used to listen to music . In 2008 , it was no wonder that MySpace to win the war between social networks . So whether it had dominated the social network Myspace Facebook ? It seems impossible . Rupert Murdoch 's Property News Corp. , until August of 2005 , always biased towards music and its fans . The variety of music on MySpace cause a real visual cacophony . And , as expected from a site of the old school media - MySpace also filled her website with ads , at a time when Facebook is not worried much about the monetary side . As Facebook grew steadily , MySpace unable to resist the challenge with. It made no difference , which led to failure . Even if Facebook had not existed , to remove Myspace 's fans , the more likely it will again capitulate .
Probably something else ... big as Facebook will be invented
Mark Zuckenbergu not invent social networking , and social network did not need to , to show his potential as ideas for changing the world . Another social network - created before Facebook - LinkedIn 's Reid Hoffman was potentially becoming a great website , but also because it focused on business could not compete Zuckerbergut creation . Disputes that we did not have something similar to Facebook , a social network with a large number of users all over the world, dominated in the same way as Google dominates the research network . But probably would not have gotten so much bold ambition Zuckenberg Regulation to advance continuously .
Anyway ... Twitter had existed
When the service initially named Twitter debut in June 2006 , was set for sending messages between friends . There seemed like Facebook , which was possible only between students . The fact that Facebook has undoubtedly existed influenced Twitter's performance . Probably would walk more if in between there would be Facebook.
Google+ ... it would not be in the shape it is now, but maybe he would be more powerful
In the middle of the last decade , Google has been the most powerful company in the web. And his aim was to find a way to become a research engine even better , as sought and other companies Yahoo and Microsoft . But Facebook became the most important rival Google , with its impact on culture and past success and the smartphone . So it seems that in a world without Facebook or something similar to it , Google's benefits would be unimaginable .
FriendFeed ... could have flourished
Of all the services that konkutruar Facebook , FriendFeed was the version from which he got more ideas . FriendFeed had the ' Like ' on Facebook before , and besides many other functions that Facebook took the debt . Later in 2009 , Facebook bought FriendFeed -in .
Web ... would be a giant grid less
Button " Like " became as widespread as it was hard to believe he does not exist button in all parts of the web. Many web pages allow you to create the address of the account through Facebook, giving the social network credits as a true patent for the web . Some simply use Facebook to comment . The social network is like a thread that joins all over the Internet . All these features were their predecessors , eg button " Digg " button there on the web before the " Like" . Microsoft tried to propagate a new coding system called " Hailstorm " at the beginning of the century. Very soon Facebook included himself in a unique way on the web , making Google in , Twitter and other websites in to follow after .
Attitude toward privacy ... online world would be completely different
In 2006, when Facebook introduced the site of the " latest news " - a list of things to display Facebook friends - it was unimaginable to think that the social network without this option . This pattern continues today . Sometimes Facebook faces hurdles , while some other time progresses too - as with the case 's famed Beacon , a feature of the 2007 's that allowed us to become acquainted with the recent acquisitions of members of shoppingut sites . Some people do not believe this site ever . But to maintain privacy , Zuckenbergu has redesigned several times -in his web .
Media business ... would be more common
Facebook made the vehicle extremely simple distribution , so that distributed hundreds of millions of people have their events in this network . From bloggers , to the news agencies have participated in this distribution . Through this distribution they have pushed Facebook users to press the button " Like" . Sometimes things are really distributed interesting , but there are those that distribute photos without significance eg pets
Today there and other website with many followers as Buzzfeed , Huffington Post and Upëorthy . They can exist in the absence of Facebook , but it's hard to imagine that they will deliver a similar pattern with this industry .
The social network has become more interesting over the last decade . Not only that it exists but because every time is unpredictable . Has made it impossible to imagine life without it, and imagine what will happen in the next 10 years .
