The founder of the social network mark Zuckerberg said on his page in Facebook that on 24 August the number of users for the first time reached 1 billion people.
"on the first day of the week one of seven citizens of the Earth used Facebook to communicate with your buddies and family members," wrote Zuckerberg on the last working day of the week on his page in the social network, expressing gratitude to all the clients created the Internet representation.
"Our Commonwealth is in favour of giving the vote to every man," said Zuckerberg. He clarified that the current billion users ? this is a first for Facebook achievement of such magnitude, and at the same time this is only the beginning " of the process of unification of the whole world ". According to the founder of Facebook, the social network promote mutual understanding between people and gives everyone access to the opportunities of the modern world. Remember, in mid-July in Runet began the project Facebookpage. RF, connecting users who are not sharing the point of view of the administration of Facebook on content filtering and criteria for the freezing of accounts. On the 1st day of the existence of the Internet mission took 5 thousand People. Reasons for creating this project a lot. For example, July 1, Facebook account dramatist Eduard Bagirov was blocked for the use of the word "Ukrainians" that the administration of the social network refers to the insults on racial/ethnic grounds, along with the word " nigger ". By the way, June 17 Commissioners visited Facebook in the Ukraine, after a meeting with commissioners of the Ministry of information policy. Fifteen of may Facebook Founder mark Zuckerberg explained that certain too aggressive posts of a number of Residents of Ukraine have been locked due to violation of the standards of the social network. He also explained the comments about the fact that the positions of Ukrainian users like moderated from the Russian office of Facebook, saying that his organization has no office in the Russian Federation, and the Ukrainian segment is moderated by an international team from Dublin.

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