74-498: Facebook is a social-network service website launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg . The following is a list of software and technology features that can be found on the Facebook website and mobile app and are available to users of the social media site. The news feed is the primary system through which users are exposed to content posted on the network. Using a secret method (initially known as EdgeRank ), Facebook selects
148-537: A "cornucopia of uselessness". Others have called for limiting third-party applications so the Facebook "user experience" is not degraded. Primarily attempting to create viral applications is a method that has certainly been employed by numerous Facebook application developers. Stanford University even offered a class in the Fall of 2007, entitled, Computer Science (CS) 377W: "Create Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook". Numerous applications created by
222-453: A "cornucopia of uselessness." Others have called for limiting third-party applications so the Facebook user experience is not degraded. Applications that have been created on the Platform include chess , which both allow users to play games with their friends. In such games, a user's moves are saved on the website, allowing the next move to be made at any time rather than immediately after
296-488: A Facebook session and are accessed through a user's profile. Since iframes essentially nest independent websites within a Facebook session, their content is distinct from Facebook formatting. Facebook originally used 'Facebook Markup Language (FBML)' to allow Facebook Application developers to customize the "look and feel" of their applications , to a limited extent. FBML is a specification of how to encode content so that Facebook's servers can read and publish it, which
370-424: A Haskell library that simplified the access to remote data, such as databases or web-based services. Starting in 2007, Facebook formed data sharing partnerships with at least 60 handset manufacturers, including Apple , Amazon , BlackBerry , Microsoft and Samsung . Those manufacturers were provided with Facebook user data without the users' consent. Most of the partnerships remained in place as of 2018, when
444-412: A constantly updated list of their friends' Facebook activity. News Feed highlights information that includes profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays, among other updates. This has enabled spammers and other users to manipulate these features by creating illegitimate events or posting fake birthdays to attract attention to their profile or cause. News Feed also shows conversations taking place between
518-522: A dedicated website interface , and separated the messaging functionality from the main Facebook app, requiring users to download the standalone apps. Facebook Messenger lets Facebook users send messages to each other. Complementing regular conversations, Messenger lets users make voice calls and video calls both in one-to-one interactions and in group conversations. Its Android app has integrated support for SMS and "Chat Heads", which are round profile photo icons appearing on-screen regardless of what app
592-462: A guest list of friends invited. Events can be public or private. Private events cannot be found in searches and are by invitation only. People who have not been invited cannot view a private event's description, Wall, or photos. They also will not see any Feed stories about the event. When setting up an event the user can choose to allow friends to upload photos or videos. Note that unlike real world events, all events are treated as separate entities (when
666-429: A handful of updates to actually show users every time they visit their feed, out of an average of 1500 updates they can potentially receive. On September 6, 2006, Ruchi Sanghvi announced a new home page feature called News Feed. Originally, when users logged into Facebook, they were presented with a customizable version of their own profile. The new layout, by contrast, created an alternative home page in which users saw
740-446: A new profile redesign named 'Timeline' that showed a history of user's activity on their profile, and a broader, more advanced version of the 'Open Graph' protocol. The F8 2011 event was mainly focused on introducing new products, transforming industries, building and growing social applications and product Q&A. Some of the details of the topics were: F8 2014 was announced on March 8, 2014, by Facebook representative Ilya Sukhar that
814-413: A redesigned newsfeed. In 2022, Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms , announced it is renaming the "News Feed" to simply be named "Feed". "Friending" someone on the platform is the act of sending another user a "friend request" on Facebook. The two people are Facebook friends once the receiving party accepts the friend request. In addition to accepting the request, the user has the option of declining
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#1733085533400888-585: A set of programming interfaces and tools which enable developers to integrate with the open " social graph " of personal relations and other things like songs, places, and Facebook pages. Applications on facebook.com, external websites, and devices are all allowed to access the graph. Facebook launched the Facebook Platform on May 24, 2007 , providing a framework for software developers to create applications that interact with core Facebook features . A markup language called Facebook Markup Language
962-622: A user's picture now count for one notification, whereas in the earlier stages, these would have accounted for ten separate notifications. The number of notifications can be changed in the settings section, to a maximum of 99. There is a red notification counter at the top of the page, which if clicked displays the most recent ones. Facebook groups can be created by individual users. Groups allow members to post content such as links, media, questions, events, editable documents, and comments on these items. Groups are used for collaboration and allow discussions, events, and numerous other activities. They are
1036-552: A way of enabling a number of people to come together online to share information and discuss specific subjects. They are increasingly used by clubs, companies and public sector organizations to engage with stakeholders, be they members of the public, employees, members, service users, shareholders or customers. Groups can have two different levels of privacy settings: Previously, in October 2010, there were version 0 (legacy) and version 1 (current) groups. Version 1 or "new" groups can contain
1110-420: Is a mostly-annual conference held by Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) since 2007, intended for developers and entrepreneurs who build products and services around the website. The event has generally started with a keynote speech by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg , followed by various breakout sessions concentrating on specific topics. Facebook has often introduced new features and made new announcements at
1184-470: Is developing a Facebook search engine. “Facebook is pretty well placed to respond to people’s questions. At some point, we will. We have a team that is working on it", said Mark Zuckerberg. For him, the traditional search engines return too many results that do not necessarily respond to questions. “The search engines really need to evolve a set of answers: 'I have a specific question, answer this question for me.'" On June 10, 2014 , Facebook announced Haxl,
1258-514: Is needed in the Facebook-specific feed so that Facebook's system can properly parse content and publish it as specified. FBML set by any application is cached by Facebook until a subsequent API call replaces it. Facebook also offers a specialized Facebook JavaScript (FBJS) library. Facebook stopped accepting new FBML applications on March 18, 2011 , but continued to support existing FBML tabs and applications. Since January 1, 2012 FBML
1332-479: Is open, while both apps support multiple accounts, conversations with optional end-to-end encryption , and playing "Instant Games", which are select games built into Messenger. Some features, including sending money and requesting transportation, are limited to the United States. In 2017, Facebook has added "Messenger Day", a feature that lets users share photos and videos in a story-format with all their friends with
1406-667: Is shared with the sites on which they appear. On the other hand, the social plugins let Facebook track its users’ browsing habits through any sites that feature the plugins. The Open Graph protocol enables developers to integrate their pages into Facebook's global mapping/tracking tool Social Graph . These pages gain the functionality of other graph objects including profile links and stream updates for connected users. OpenGraph tags in HTML5 might look like this: Facebook uses iframes to allow third-party developers to create applications that are hosted separately from Facebook, but operate within
1480-471: The iCalendar -format. In 2007, Facebook introduced the Facebook Marketplace, allowing users to post classified ads within sale, housing, and jobs categories. However, the feature never gained traction, and in 2009, control was transferred to Oodle , the platform powering the functionality. The feature was then eventually shut down in 2014. In October 2016, Facebook announced a new Marketplace, citing
1554-516: The "Altura 1 Facebook Investment Fund," becoming the world's first Facebook-only venture capital firm. On August 29, 2007 , Facebook changed the way in which the popularity of applications is measured, to give attention to the more engaging applications, following criticism that ranking applications only by the number of people who had installed the application was giving an advantage to the highly viral, yet useless applications. Tech blog Valleywag has criticized Facebook Applications, labeling them
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#17330855334001628-512: The COVID-19 outbreak, a "Care" reaction was added to Facebook. To mark the 30th anniversary of the GIF, Facebook has introduced a new feature enabling users to add GIFs to comments. The eagerly awaited feature can be accessed using the GIF button located beside the emoji picker. Users can choose from the available GIFs sourced from Facebook's GIF partners, but cannot upload other GIFs . GIFs aside,
1702-521: The F8 event would return on April 30. The conference was focused on Facebook's strategy to become a 'cross-platform platform'. Here is a list of the main topics: The 2015 F8 conference was held on March 25, 2015, at the Fort Mason Center . The 2016 F8 conference was held on April 12 and 13, 2016. Announcements: Facebook Analytics adds push and in app notifications feature The 2017 F8 conference
1776-458: The Messenger app. Notifications tell the user that something has been added to their profile page. Examples include: a message being shared on the user's wall or a comment on a picture of the user or on a picture that the user has previously commented on. Initially, notifications for events were limited to one per event; these were eventually grouped category-wise. For instance, 10 users having liked
1850-705: The News Feed made it too easy for other people to track activities like changes in relationship status, events, and conversations with other users. This tracking is often casually referred to as "Facebook-Stalking". In response to this dissatisfaction, creator Mark Zuckerberg issued an apology for the site's failure to include appropriate customizable privacy features. Thereafter, users were able to control what types of information were shared automatically with friends. Currently, users may prevent friends from seeing updates about several types of especially private activities, although other events are not customizable in this way. With
1924-457: The Notes feature received an update, bringing additional features, such as adding a cover photo and caption, the ability to resize photos, and text formatting options. Facebook announced Places on August 18, 2010. It is a feature that lets users check into Facebook using a mobile device to let a user's friends know where they are at the moment. In November 2010, Facebook announced "Deals", a subset of
1998-607: The Places offering, which allows for users to check in from restaurants, supermarkets, bars, and coffee shops using an app on a mobile device and then be rewarded discounts, coupons, and free merchandise. This feature is marketed as a digital version of a loyalty card or coupon where a customer gets rewarded for loyal buying behavior. On October 10, 2010, Places became available on BlackBerry , iPhone , and Android . Other users, including Windows Mobile users, must use an HTML5 browser to use Places via Facebook Touch Site. Facebook Places
2072-480: The San Francisco Design Center. The main announcement was the feature to add a “Like” button to any piece of content on a website by the owner. This feature is now integrated within around 2.5 million websites worldwide, with 10,000 more being added daily. Additional news and announcements included: F8 2011 was held on September 22, 2011. Various things Facebook introduced at the conference included
2146-523: The Timeline profile layout, which was introduced in December 2011. In September 2011, Facebook introduced "Timeline" at its developer conference , intended to revamp users' profiles in order to show content based on year, month and date. "Cover" photos were introduced, taking up a significant portion of the top of pages, and a redesigned display of personal information such as friends, likes and photos appeared on
2220-580: The announcement. Announcements included: The 2019 F8 conference was held at the end of April 2019 and the beginning of May 2019 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. During the keynote, Mark Zuckerberg announced: "The future is private." The 2020 F8 conference was held on April 25, 2020, as a virtual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The 2021 F8 conference, AKA F8 Refresh,
2294-473: The app into a chat. In April 2016, it introduced an API for developers to build chatbots into Messenger, for uses such as news publishers building bots to give users news through the service, and in April 2017, it enabled the M virtual assistant for users in the U.S., which scans chats for keywords and suggests relevant actions, such as its payments system for users mentioning money. Additionally, Facebook expanded
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2368-569: The class were highly successful, and ranked amongst the top Facebook applications, with some achieving over 3.5 million users in a month. In 2011, The Guardian expressed concerns that users publishing content through a third party provider are exposed to losing their web positioning if their service is removed; and the open graph could force connecting web presence to Facebook social services even for people using their own publishing channels. In June 2018, The New York Times criticized Facebook's partnerships with device manufacturers, writing that
2442-581: The class were highly successful, and ranked amongst the top Facebook applications, with some achieving over 3.5 million users in a month. In May 2010, Facebook began testing Questions, which is expected to compete with services such as Yahoo! Answers . On March 24, 2011, Facebook announced that its new product, Facebook Questions, facilitates short, poll -like answers in addition to long-form responses, and also links directly to relevant items in Facebook's directory of "fan pages". Facebook allows users to upload photos, and to add them to albums. In December 2010,
2516-612: The comments feature also allow users to attach stickers. Facebook has a standard sticker set, whereby sticker options are categorised according to popular moods and activities such as "Happy", "Eating", and "Confused". In 2020, Facebook introduced "Make Your Avatar" which enables users to customize a virtual look-alike of yourself to use as stickers in comments as well as Messenger chats. Essentially Facebook's version of Snap's Bitmoji, Avatars have been since made available in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Canada. In December 2015, an indicator
2590-487: The company enabled facial recognition technology, helping users identify people to tag in uploaded photos. In May 2011, Facebook launched a feature to tag specific Facebook pages in photos, including brands, products, and companies. On mobile, Facebook introduced photo filters in August 2011. In May 2016, Facebook started allowing users to upload and view 360-degree photos. Mobile users will move their device around to navigate
2664-514: The conference. The "F8" name comes from Facebook's tradition of 8 hour hackathons . Facebook F8 was hosted in San Francisco , California from 2007 to 2016, then in a more central Silicon Valley location in San Jose, California from 2017 to 2019. In 2020 and 2021, it was a virtual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic . There was no F8 event in 2009, 2012, 2013 or 2022. The 2022 event
2738-642: The content disappearing after 24 hours; Reactions, which lets users tap and hold a message to add a reaction through an emoji ; and Mentions, which lets users in group conversations type @ to give a particular user a notification. In March 2015, Facebook announced that it would start letting businesses and users interact through Messenger with features such as tracking purchases and receiving notifications, and interacting with customer service representatives. It also announced that third-party developers could integrate their apps into Messenger, letting users enter an app while inside Messenger and optionally share details from
2812-582: The data available to these manufacturers "raise concerns about the company's privacy protections and compliance with a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission." Facebook Platform is relatively unknown to the general public, with no notable occurrences relating to it, as the privacy policy and terms and conditions are regularly updated. Facebook F8 Fort Mason Center (2015) San Jose McEnery Convention Center (2017–19) San Jose, California , US (2017–19) Facebook F8
2886-402: The decline of physical-world relationships. Facebook profiles also have advanced privacy features to restrict content to certain users, such as non-friends or persons on a specific list. The wall is the original profile space where Facebook users' content was displayed, until December 2011. It allowed the posting of messages, often short or temporal notes, for the user to see while displaying
2960-406: The environment, while website users will have to click and drag. Facebook Platform The Facebook Platform is the set of services, tools, and products provided by the social networking service Facebook for third-party developers to create their own applications and services that access data in Facebook. The current Facebook Platform was launched in 2010 . The platform offers
3034-431: The friend request or hiding it using the "Not Now" feature. Deleting a friend request removes the request, but does allow the sender to resend it in the future. The "Not Now" feature hides the request but does not delete it, allowing the receiver to revisit the request at a later date. It is also possible to remove a user from one's friends, which is referred to as "unfriending" by Facebook. Many Facebook users also refer to
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3108-689: The growth of organized "buy and sell" Facebook Groups, and gave the new version a higher prominence in the main Facebook app, taking the navigation position previously held by Facebook Messenger . According to Facebook's internal data from 2019, the Marketplace used to only be a C2C platform but now there is a major B2C opportunity for US retailers. In June 2021, the European Commission and Competition and Markets Authority launched antitrust probes over concerns that Facebook's Marketplace took advantage of data from competing services that advertise on
3182-552: The introduction of the "New Facebook" in early February 2010 came a complete redesign of the pages, several new features and changes to News Feeds. On their personal Feeds (now integrated with Walls), users were given the option of removing updates from any application as well as choosing the size they show up on the page. Furthermore, the community feed (containing recent actions by the user's friends) contained options to instantly select whether to hear more or less about certain friends or applications. On March 7, 2013, Facebook announced
3256-507: The left-hand side, while story posts appeared on the right. The new design introduced flexible sizing for story posts in the feed, along with more prominent location and photo placement. The Timeline also encouraged scrolling, with constantly loading story posts of users' pasts. Timeline began gradually rolling out to users in New Zealand starting December 7, 2011, and was made officially available to all users worldwide on December 15. By January,
3330-456: The like button for an option to use one of six pre-defined emotions, including "Like", "Love", "Haha", "Wow", "Sad", or "Angry" and for a limited time the following reactions, "Care", "Pride Flag", "Thankful". Reactions were also extended to comments in May 2017. In June 2017, in celebration of Pride month , Facebook introduced a rainbow flag as part of its Reactions options. The design of the reactions
3404-544: The name of the group in their URL if the email address of the group is set. Groups do not have a RSS feed to export the wall or the member list, such as Pages or Events have, but third parties provide such service if the group is set to an "open" privacy setting. All groups have since been migrated to a single design. Facebook events are a way for members to let friends know about upcoming events in their community and to organize social gatherings. Events require an event name, network, host name, event type, start time, location, and
3478-448: The number of other users who have liked the content, including a full or partial list of those users. The like button was extended to comments in June 2010. After extensive testing and years of questions from the public about whether it had an intention to incorporate a "Dislike" button, Facebook officially rolled out "Reactions" to users worldwide on February 24, 2016, letting users long-press on
3552-405: The number of users signing into the site from mobile devices exceeded web-based logins for the first time. Many Facebook application developers have attempted to create viral applications. Stanford University even offered a class in the Fall of 2007 , entitled Computer Science (CS) 377W: "Create Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook". Numerous applications created by
3626-407: The option to highlight stories to make them top stories, as well as to un-highlight stories. In response to users' criticism, Facebook later updated the News Feed to allow users to view recent stories first. Initially, the addition of the News Feed caused some discontent among Facebook users. Many users complained that the News Feed was too cluttered with excess information. Others were concerned that
3700-488: The partnerships were first publicly reported. The Graph API is the core of Facebook Platform, enabling developers to read from and write data into Facebook. The Graph API presents a simple, consistent view of the Facebook social graph, uniformly representing objects in the graph (e.g., people, photos, events, and pages) and the connections between them (e.g., friend relationships, shared content, and photo tags). On April 30, 2015, Facebook shut down friends' data API prior to
3774-450: The platform and used it to gain "an undue competitive advantage". Facebook Notes was introduced on August 22, 2006, as a blogging platform offering users the ability to write notes, attach photos, and optionally import blog entries from external sources. The most known usage form of the Notes feature was the Internet meme "25 Random Things About Me", which involves writing 25 things about
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#17330855334003848-444: The popular early social network games would combine capabilities. For instance, one of the early games to reach the top application spot, (Lil) Green Patch , combined virtual Gifts with Event notifications to friends and contributions to charities through Causes. Third party companies provide application metrics, and several blogs arose in response to the clamor for Facebook applications. On July 4, 2007 , Altura Ventures announced
3922-551: The previous move. By November 3, 2007 , seven thousand applications had been developed on the Facebook Platform, with another hundred created every day. By the second annual f8 developers conference on July 23, 2008 , the number of applications had grown to 33,000, and the number of registered developers had exceeded 400,000. Within a few months of launching the Facebook Platform, issues arose regarding "application spam ", which involves Facebook applications "spamming" users to request it be installed. Facebook integration
3996-443: The process as "de-friending". "Unfriend" was New Oxford American Dictionary 's word of the year in 2009. Facebook does not notify a user if they have been unfriended, but there are scripts that provide this functionality. There has also been a study on why Facebook users unfriend, which found that differences, especially between ages, and few mutual friendships were the dominant factors correlated with unfriending, all of which mirrors
4070-409: The reality is some events sit inside other events, going to one event would preclude going to another, and so on). In February 2011, Facebook began to use the hCalendar microformat to mark up events, and the hCard microformat for the events' venues, enabling the extraction of details to users' own calendar or mapping applications. Third parties facilitate events to be exported from Facebook pages to
4144-552: The services are representative of surprising new thinking in Silicon Valley. Instead of trying to hoard information about their users, the Internet companies (including Facebook, Google, MySpace and Twitter) all share at least some of that data so people do not have to enter the same identifying information again and again on different sites." Log in with Facebook cannot be used by users in locations that cannot access Facebook, even if
4218-475: The switch to Timeline became required for all users. In February 2012, Timeline became available for Facebook Pages. The like button, first enabled on February 9, 2009, enables users to easily interact with status updates, comments, photos, links shared by friends, videos and advertisements. Once clicked by a user, the designated content appears in the News Feeds of that user's friends, and the button also displays
4292-518: The third-party site is otherwise accessible from that location. According to Facebook, users who logged into The Huffington Post with Facebook spent more time on the site than the average user. Social plugins – including the Like Button , Recommendations, and Activity Feed – enable developers to provide social experiences to their users with just a few lines of HTML. All social plugins are extensions of Facebook and are designed so that no user data
4366-505: The time and date the message was written. A user's wall is visible to anyone with the ability to see their full profile, and friends' wall posts appear in the user's News Feed. In July 2007, Facebook allowed users to post attachments to the wall, whereas previously the wall was limited to text only. In May 2008, the Wall-to-Wall for each profile was limited to only 40 posts. Facebook later allowed users to insert HTML code in boxes attached to
4440-462: The use of bots, incorporating group chatbots into Messenger as "Chat Extensions", adding a "Discovery" tab for finding bots, and enabling special, branded QR codes that, when scanned, take the user to a specific bot. In August 2018, Facebook discontinued users' ability to post to their Timeline using SMS. In September 2022, Facebook added the "Community Chats" function, allowing people in a Facebook group to chat between each other on Messenger and on
4514-466: The user that their friends do not already know about them and using the tag function to ask 25 friends to do the same. The trend became popular in February 2009, with The New York Times discussing its sudden surge, noting that nearly five million notes were created for the purpose, a doubling of the feature's use in the previous week and larger than any other week in Facebook's history. In September 2015,
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#17330855334004588-1138: The v2.0 release. Facebook authentication enables developers’ applications to interact with the Graph API on behalf of Facebook users, and it provides a single-sign on mechanism across web, mobile, and desktop apps. Facebook Connect, also called Log in with Facebook, like OpenID , is a set of authentication APIs from Facebook that developers can use to help their users connect and share with such users' Facebook friends (on and off Facebook) and increase engagement for their website or application. When so used, Facebook members can log on to third-party websites, applications, mobile devices and gaming systems with their Facebook identity and, while logged in, can connect with friends via these media and post information and updates to their Facebook profile. Originally unveiled during Facebook’s developer conference, F8, in July 2008 , Log in with Facebook became generally available in December 2008 . According to an article from The New York Times, "Some say
4662-469: The wall via apps like Static FBML which has allowed marketers to track use of their fan pages with Google Analytics. The concept of tagging in status updates, an attempt to imitate Twitter, began September 14, 2009. This meant putting the name of a user, a brand, an event or a group in a post in such a way that it linked to the wall of the Facebook page being tagged, and made the post appear in news feeds for that page, as well as those of selected friends. This
4736-467: The walls of a user's friends. An integral part of the News Feed interface is the Mini Feed, a news stream on the user's profile page that shows updates about that user. Unlike in the News Feed, the user can delete events from the Mini Feed after they appear so that they are no longer visible to profile visitors. In 2011, Facebook updated the News Feed to show top stories and most recent stories in one feed, and
4810-476: The web and devices. Facebook Platform Statistics as of May 2010: On August 29, 2007, Facebook changed the way in which the popularity of applications is measured, to give attention to the more engaging applications, following criticism that ranking applications only by the number of people who had installed the application was giving an advantage to the highly viral , yet useless applications. Tech blog Valleywag has criticized Facebook Applications, labeling them
4884-435: Was added to the comment area to show when a friend is typing a new comment. Facebook Messenger is an instant messaging service and software application. Originally developed as Facebook Chat in 2008, the company revamped its messaging service in 2010, and subsequently released standalone iOS and Android apps in August 2011. Over the years, Facebook has released new apps on a variety of different operating systems, launched
4958-485: Was announced for the Xbox 360 and Nintendo DSi on June 1, 2009 at E3. On November 18, 2009 , Sony announced an integration with Facebook to deliver the first phase of a variety of new features to further connect and enhance the online social experiences of PlayStation 3. On February 2, 2010 , Facebook announced the release of HipHop for PHP as an opensource project. Mark Zuckerberg said that his team from Facebook
5032-503: Was first done using the "@" symbol followed by the person's name. Later, a numerical ID for the person could be used. Visually, this was displayed with bold text. Early in 2011, tagging in comments was added. In addition to postings by other users, the wall also displayed other events that happened to the user's profile. This included when information was changed, when they changed their profile picture, and when they connected with new people, among other things. The wall has been replaced by
5106-467: Was held on April 18 and 19, 2017, at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. Announcements included: The 2018 F8 conference was held on the first two days of May 2018 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. At the conference, Facebook announced the creation of their own online dating service. Shares in the dating business Match Group fell by 22% after
5180-730: Was introduced simultaneously; it is used to customize the "look and feel" of applications that developers create. Prior to the Facebook platform, Facebook had built many applications themselves within the Facebook website, including Gifts, allowing users to send virtual gifts to each other, Marketplace , allowing users to post free classified ads, Facebook events, giving users a method of informing their friends about upcoming events, Video , letting users share homemade videos with one another, and social network game , where users can use their connections to friends to help them advance in games they are playing. The Facebook Platform made it possible for outside partners to build similar applications. Many of
5254-563: Was no longer supported, and FBML no longer functioned as of June 1, 2012 . In February 2011 , Facebook began to use the hCalendar microformat to mark up events, and the hCard for the events' venues, enabling the extraction of details to users' own calendar or mapping applications. The UI framework for the mobile website is based on Xhp , the Javelin Javascript library, and WURFL . The mobile platform has grown dramatically in popularity since its launch. In December 2012 ,
5328-422: Was replaced by an event called Conversations, focusing on the metaverse . The first F8 event was held on May 24, 2007, at the San Francisco Design Center in San Francisco . The notion of the social graph was introduced. The 2008 F8 event was held on July 23, 2008, at the San Francisco Design Center once again. News and announcements from this event included: The 2010 F8 event was held on April 21, 2010, at
5402-711: Was reported discontinued on August 24, 2011, but was relaunched in November 2014, now including cover images, discovery sections, city/category landing pages, a deeper integration with the Location API, Graph Search queries and user generated content. The Facebook Platform provides a set of APIs and tools which enable third-party developers to integrate with the "open graph", whether through applications on Facebook.com or external websites and devices. Launched on May 24, 2007, Facebook Platform has evolved from enabling development just on Facebook.com to one also supporting integration across
5476-408: Was updated in April 2019, with more frames comprising the icons' animations as well as a general graphical overhaul. The reactions were first shown off by reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong on Twitter , with mixed reactions both as replies and on Facebook itself. In September 2019 it was revealed that Facebook is conducting a trial in Australia to hide the like count on posts. In 2020 during
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