Facebook turns 8 years old

The largest social network in the world celebrates today, February 4, another year of life. In eight years of existence, The Facebook it has gone through several transformations and, even at the age of a child, its numbers are frightening.

Today the Facebook has 845 million active users (according to December 2011 data), with more than half (483 million) accessing the network every day. It is available in over 70 different languages ​​and employs around 3 people in 32 offices around the world, including Brazil.

In these 8 years, the Facebook also turned into a business. The company is valued at between $85 billion and $100 billion, and this week it filed an initial public offering, last Wednesday, involving just $5 billion of the company's value.

In Brazil, the social network has grown alarmingly, already dethroning the Orkut as the social network with the most active users in the country, with approximately 30 million users. On this anniversary, just one more question arises: what to expect again from the social network of Mark Zuckemberg?