It all began in 2004 when three young Americans decided to create a network to contact their colleagues at Harvard University. Mark Zuckerberg and two other students, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moscovitz, designed a platform that was intended to be limited only to the population of the university.

But after 6 years, everything changed.

After announcing in February 2009 have more than 150 million records and in September the same year have doubled that number, the largest social network in the world revealed yesterday, a new figure.

The platform, which was launched on February 4, 2004 by its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, yesterday reached the 500 million active users in six and a half years of existence.

To commemorate the event, Facebook launched a new application: Facebook Stories. This is a selection of stories shared by network users on the impact and importance that the social network took the lives of these people.

Any other user can access the application, add your story and meet thousands of other cases around the world.

In a press statement issued yesterday by the social networking site, Facebook is grateful to all the users and states that the mission of the platform is to “help make the world more open and interconnected.”

Via: Blog Facebook.