Beginning of the month Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, Inc. shared the email address he used to send his first on facebook. account, which evokes a sense of nostalgia among users.

What happened: During a conversation on Topicsa social networking platform, Zuckerberg revealed the email address he used for his first Facebook account on August 20.

“The real ones know. The first account was [email protected],” he posted.

This reminded users of the time when a .edu domain was a requirement to join Facebook, a policy that was in place when the platform launched in 2004, especially for Harvard University students.

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Requiring a college email was a way to ensure that only students from accredited institutions could register, which added to the site’s exclusivity and appeal at the time.

By 2006, Facebook gradually expanded its membership criteria to include non-students, clearly distancing the company from its original focus on college students.

This change was partly due to the need to accommodate users who had graduated and wanted to maintain their connections on the platform.

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Why it is important: Facebook renamed itself Meta in 2021. This change was primarily motivated by Zuckerberg’s vision to shift the company’s focus away from being perceived as just a social media platform.

He wanted to make Meta a leader in the development of the “metaverse,” a concept that refers to a shared, immersive virtual environment where users can interact in a 3D space.

Zuckerberg’s Meta currently has a market capitalization of $1.307 trillion, making it the seventh most valuable company in the world.

In July, the technology giant reported second-quarter revenue of $39.07 billion, beating analyst estimates of $38.31 billion.

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