<p>A view of the the Facebook app's splash screen in front of the login page in 2012.(Photo: Karen Bleier, AFP/Getty Images)Story Highlights"Facebook ... broke us out of e-mail jail"Countless testimonials speak to the network's transformative effectFacebook's next decade is likely to be more tumultuous than its dominant first 10 years</p><p>SAN FRANCISCO The calendar may say 2014, but in tech culture this week actually marks the year 10 A.F After Facebook.</p><p>What did we poor humans do before the advent of Mark Zuckerberg's collegiate brainstorm? Let's see, we smiled when we "liked" something, we dialed the phone to "update" friends and "tagging" was a kids' game.</p><p>The upside of those innocent pre-social media times: intimacy. The downside: intimacy. If you wanted to reach a huge group, it meant sending an e-mail with a cc list that looked like the phone book.</p><p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/02/facebook-turns-10-cultural-impact/5063979/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/01/facebook-first-10-years-mark-zuckerberg">Which is why we should be concerned about Zuckerberg&#039;s achievement.</a> (The Guardian)</p><p><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245967/Facebook_to_celebrate_10th_birthday_on_Tuesday">Facebook to celebrate 10th birthday on Tuesday</a> (Computerworld)</p><p><a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2014/02/02/facebook-celebrates-its-10th-birthday/">Facebook celebrates its 10th birthday</a> (Fox News Latino)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dU4jnvP47hQ7PgMzFd7grV5hTGHHM&authuser=0&ned=us">94 additional articles.</a></p>