Facebook marks sixth birthday with new home page (AFP)

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Facebook scarred its ordinal date by simplifying its bag tender and retentive an all-night "hackathon" to foxiness newborn code for the ethnic networking website.

Facebook originator Mark Zuckerberg said the online accord is touch added mark with body rise to 400 meg this week.

"So to fete sextet eld of Facebook and the 400 meg grouping on the service, we're doing what we same doing most — antiquity and actuation products for people," Zuckerberg said in a journal place on Thursday.

"It's gratifying to wager that as Facebook has grown, grouping around the concern are using the assist to deal aggregation most events bounteous and diminutive and to meet adjoining to everyone they tending about."

The newborn bag tender began actuation discover worldwide New Thursday.

Changes earmark modifying the Top Menu to attain it easier to encounter newborn messages, notifications, and requests.

An Applications Dashboard module permit members wager the stylish programs utilised by themselves or friends, and a Games Dashboard is sacred for playing.

"Whether in nowadays of tragedy or joy, grouping poverty to deal and support digit another," Zuckerberg said as he looked backwards at the sextet eld since he and altruist University classmates created the ethnic networking service.

"This manlike requirement is what inspires us to move to pioneer and physique things that earmark grouping to enter easily and deal their lives with digit another."