20年来12大最具影响力的个人科技产品

7. Facebook (2004)

7. Facebook (2004)

Just as Netscape opened the Web, Facebook made the Internet into a social medium. There were some earlier social networks. But Facebook became the social network of choice, a place where you could share everything from a photo of a sunset to the news of a birth or death with a few friends, or with hundreds of thousands. Today, over a billion people use it and it has changed the entire concept of the Internet.

正像网景开创了网络时代一样，Facebook开辟了社交网络时代。尽管在此之前也有一些社交网络存在，但Facebook最终成为了人们的选择，在Facebook上你可以与一些、甚至是成百上千的朋友分享任何事，不论是一张日落黄昏的照片，还是新生儿诞生或者生命逝去的消息。目前，Facebook的用户数已超过10亿，已经完全颠覆了互联网的概念。