Facebook Turns Five

In case you've been under a rock today, you already know that Facebook has reached it's 5th birthday. It's hard to believe that Facebook has only been around for five years. With 150 million users and countless addicts, it's difficult to remember a time when updating your status or posting photos to share with friends wasn't part of your every day life. That's a testament not only to the popularity of the site, but to how it has effectively changed the way people socialize and share content with each other. Facebook has completely changed the game. Here are just a few of my favorite moments from within my own little social graph:

1. Finding a out a friend got divorced because they changed their relationship status.
2. Finding out another friend got divorced because they updated their general status that they were "on the way to sign the divorce papers". Nice.
3. Seeing countless women announce their pregnancies before the swimmers even hit the egg. What happened to the three month rule?
4. Seeing the "back in the day" photos of all of my adult friends when they were living large in the 80s. Yikes.
5. Getting friend requests from high school classmates who I didn't know then and certainly don't know almost 20 years later. Why would I want to connect with you people? No offense, but we're not friends.

While there are some that are skeptical on whether Facebook can continue the rocket-ship rise of the last few years, the site has really just scratched the surface from a business perspective. The company has been completey focused on growth and has just now begun to take a harder look at revenue. If you're interested in a retrospective on how Facebook has changed over the years, Inside Facebook has some great screenshots.