Starting with Friendster in 2002 and MySpace in 2003, social networks represented a new way to stay connected. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg took the world of social networking by storm by launching the now-ubiquitous Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room.
Now, according to Facebook, more than 600 million people use the website (about half of whom log on in a given day), and people spend about 700 billion minutes on Facebook per month (that’s just about 1.3 million years per month spent on Facebook globally).
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Why is Christian Science in our name?
Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that.
The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the world. Since 1908, we’ve aimed “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind,” as our founder, Mary Baker Eddy, put it.
Here, you’ll find award-winning journalism not driven by commercial influences – a news organization that takes seriously its mission to uplift the world by seeking solutions and finding reasons for credible hope.
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