The first social network that became popular around the world was not Facebook, although many users believe it, it was MySpace, created by Justin Timberlake, a kind of social network where lUsers could upload their photos, videos and various information. But with the arrival of Facebook, MySpace began to fall into oblivion until it became a residual platform with a very limited number of users.
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft until the arrival of Satya Nadella, has granted an interview to the American network CNBC. In this interview Ballmer affirms that Microsoft had conversations to buy the social network Facebook, reaching an offer of 24.000 millionAn offer that, as we all know, was rejected by the company's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.
Microsoft was aware of the economic potential of the company, whose growth was not being correct, hence Ballmer was interested in buying the social network that currently has more than 1.600 million monthly active users. At that time Facebook was not the giant it is today, but Zuckerberg knew its potential, a potential that little by little he has been squeezing and that has allowed him to become one of the richest people in the world.
Along the way, Zuckerberg's company has bought WhatsApp and other less popular companies to try to get the most out of user data. It should be remembered that WhatsApp changed the service termination of the messaging application a few weeks ago, forcing us to accept that they trade with our data if we want to continue using the application, something that some countries such as Germany, Spain and Great Britain have not liked. Brittany. The latter are studying if the change in conditions is correct or if, on the contrary, it will act like Germany, which forced the company to erase all the data it had collected from its users since it announced the new terms.