Happy birthday Facebook.
20 years ago, in February 2004, this revolutionary site was born in the minds of Mark Zuckerberg and a few Harvard comrades.
At first a simple online trombinoscope for students, the one commonly identified as the first social network spread from university to university, then from country to country, becoming a global phenomenon with its hordes of “friends” .
In 2023, nearly 3 billion users were browsing there every month.
Dizzying figures which embody the wave of web 2.0 of the 2000s, this participatory internet which now coexists with new generations and their virtual worlds.
Over the years, by sneaking into our daily lives, first Facebook then other social networks have brought humanity into the era of globalized links where the horizontalization of social relations reigns, where words are worth better and for worse.
A liquid world notably built of weak links which distance us a…
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