Facebook is celebrating its 13th birthday on Feb. 4, Saturday, by creating “Friends Day” videos for all of its 1.86 billion active users. The videos, which include the profile pictures of the users and their friends, are very similar to the auto-generated videos for Facebook’s friendship anniversary.
The social networking site uses the “Friends Day” videos to encourage its users to “celebrate the importance of connecting.” The videos show a dancing figure made up of small pictures of the user’s friends. It also shows the memories that the users have shared since joining Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg took to his Facebook page late Friday to share his views about friendship and Facebook Friends Day.
Today is a day to celebrate friends. It’s also Facebook’s birthday, but today isn’t about celebrating us. It’s about friendship. This sounds simple, but not often enough are we taught to celebrate friends. Growing up, we learn that homework and chores are more important and need to be done before we can spend time with friends. As adults, we’re told we’re responsible when we put our work ahead of our family and friends. Friendship isn’t a distraction from the meaningful things in life. Friendship is what gives meaning to our lives. Our friendships make the world work. We laugh, we cry and we learn with friends. We eat, we shop and we work with friends. And when we fight for what we believe and change the world, we do that with friends too. As we all do our part in this journey to connect the world, it’s important to remind ourselves to celebrate what’s at the root of it all: friendship. Thank you for being part of our community of friends. Let’s turn today into a day to celebrate a friend. #friendsday
Facebook also shared a video where members of their community shared “what friendship means to them.”
Here’s how you can create and see your Facebook Friends Day video:
Here’s how to share your Friends Day video:
If you wish to edit your Friends Day video before you share it, here’s how to do it:
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