臉書創立十週年
The biggest name in social networking -- Facebook -- celebrates 10 years of existence on Tuesday, having grown from a private college site to a worldwide platform with 1.23 billion users.
The company has announced no public plans for a celebration, but the occasion has spurred many observers to reflect on the meteoric rise of the site and its influence on other social networking services such as Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.
Facebook's initial public offering ((IPO)) in 2012 had unexpectedly poor results, but the value of company shares has risen to record levels since then. The company is worth a reported $157 billion, more than many major U.S. companies with histories that are decades longer.
Experts say the major challenge of the social networking site is to age gracefully -- keeping the interest of its youngest users, who are moving on to newer technologies, while leaving their parents among Facebook's core set of users.
No matter what its future, Facebook has already made an indelible mark on the language of today -- introducing such terms as "friending," "unfriending," and "status line" into the modern-day vocabulary.社交網絡中名字叫得最響的臉書星期二慶祝問世10週年。它從一個大學專用的網站成長爲一個全球性的平臺，擁有12.3億用戶。
該公司沒有宣佈公開的慶祝計劃，不過，這個日子促使許多觀察家反思這個網站的異軍突起及其對推特等其他社交網絡服務的影響。
臉書2012年上市的首次公開募股（ IPO） 表現出人意料地差，但公司的股價自那時以來已經上升到創紀錄的水平。該公司市值達到 1570億美元，超過許多歷時長出幾十年的美國大公司。
專家說，這個社交網站的主要挑戰是如何優雅地變老 – 那就是在保持其正在流向新技術的最年輕用戶的興趣，同時把他們的家長留在臉書的核心用戶羣體當中。
無論臉書的未來如何，它已經在當今的語言中留下了不可磨滅的印記 - 引入了諸如“加好友”（friending）、“ 消好友”（unfriending ）、狀態欄（status line）等現代詞彙。
