Meta, formerly Facebook, is one of the largest tech companies in the world, and the reigning monarch of social media. What started in a Harvard dorm room became the social media powerhouse of a generation. On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin officially launched Facebook. You may be familiar with the drama of its early days as performed by Jesse Eisenberg in the Oscar-winning film The Social Network. Today, Meta is more than just a social media site, encompassing chat platforms, virtual reality, image databases, and more.

For the first seven years of its existence, Meta stuck to its social media roots, providing a platform to share updates, make friends, share photos, and engage with groups. In 2011, it made its first major product development by introdu...