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Facebook Turns 12 Today, And Here’s How It’s Celebrating

Furthermore you can choose the audience who can view the video.

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One other cool thing Facebook announced along with the Friend’s Day videos was an updated degrees-of-separation metric. You can also see it by going to www.facebook.com/friendsday, or by clicking “Watch Yours” below a friend’s Friends Day video.

The feature marks Facebook’s celebration of what it calls “Friends Day”, or the company’s 12th birthday.

Cue the birthday song because Facebook turns 12 years old on Thursday.

You might not receive the tool right away, seeing that this is a global rollout; Facebook said that most users should be able to see the tool and the stickers by mid-day on Thursday. Each year Facebook recognizes this day as Friends Day and invites the world to celebrate and reflect on the importance of connecting.

In 2011, the site only had 750 million users, but that figure has since grown to 1.59 billion as of the present.

The social network was started with an aim to reconnect with your friends and post pictures and videos.

Not to worry, though-if you hate the images Facebook selected for you, you can edit the video and swap in new photos before sharing it to your Timeline.

Today, you can open your account to discover a short video created by a special algorithm Facebook has created to generate content from. Find your local group in one of more than 40 cities worldwide.

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Speaking of the party, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg said that it is important to establish ways of keeping the focus on the needs of the community. These are available for free on the Facebook Messenger Sticker Store. Our friendships make the world work. Sometimes friendship becomes a force that sets us on a different path in life.

Facebook turns 12 with Friends Day videos for users