What Happened on December 30th
december 30, 2004
Facebook Registers One Millionth User
The one millionth user registers at social networking website Facebook. By the end of 2012 Facebook had over 1 billion active users and the social networking juggernaut continued to add users despite a plethora of new players entering the arena on a regular basis. Although it was initially conceived of as a private network for US college students, it sustained rapid growth among American youth and eventually within all demographic sectors and soon commanded a worldwide user base. It has had trouble gaining a foothold in China, however, where government monitoring and restrictions, in addition to a number of homegrown social networking sites, limited Facebookâs presence in the region.