BT Vancouver: Facebook Turns 10 Years Old

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Posted February 4, 2014 8:41 am.

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It has been a decade since the social network went live in a Harvard dorm room. Facebook now boasts 1.23 billion monthly users or about one-sixth of the world’s population.

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