How Facebook has changed our lives in 10 years

Today Facebook is ten years old. Time flies. Why did you sign in? In my case, I just wanted to keep in touch with some foreign friends after my stay in Italy. Around 2010, being on Facebook became compulsory for people and for companies, too. Here there is the video Facebook has launched today. 

Life has change in ten years and, without realising, you have became more social thanks to Facebook.

Post by Facebook.

1. You are nobody without a Facebook profile. Few year ago, the million dollar question was "Aren't you on Facebook?" Indeed, even if they don't use it any more, almost everyone has a profile yet. Since your mother until that small pub o social centre in your neighbourhood. You know it isn't cool any more, but you still use it to gossip. I won't tell anybody. 

A Facebook user wishing Facebook a Happy Birthday (Source: Facebook)

2. You have so many friends you can't even recognise them. You aren't alone. They are not friends but acquaintances. Do you remember that friend of your friend who took a picture of you? Or that girl you met in a conference three years ago? Sometimes it becomes harder to recognise people, as it is a current trend to change your Facebook name for a pseudonym, apparently because they think Facebook won't spy you if you have a nickname. 

3. You hate receiving Facebook Messages. Everybody does, but it happens to be very usefull when you want to send a more informal email to an old friend or a colleage. I used to find Messages very useful as a substitute f Messenger, until I started to hat it, as some people don't understand midnight is not a good time to start a conversation on the chat. That is why its app is one of the most downloaded and hated. 

Some people don't share the celebration mood (Source: Facebook)

4. You know closer your friends (and acquaintances). Traditionally, religious and political opinions were left appart from regular conversations. Now timelines are packed with highly personal opinions. You can easily know if your friend is a cat or a dog person even if you don't use Instagram, as pictures of kittens and puppies are as popular are photos of babies. 

5..You go party or holidays to post it. Holiday photos are taken to be shared on Facebook.Social travellers look for wifi desperatelly when going abroad, so that all envy them. Going out is another version on this phenomenon, as it seems a cocktail cannot be enjoyed without sharing it with all your Facebook friends. 

Wishing Facebook a Hppy birthday and a soon recovery of "coolness", I still have a vital question: 

Does anybody knows what is a "poke" for?