Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced this Wednesday that the platform now has a half-billion active users, and to mark the event is providing a new service to let every user “tell their own story”. The newly dubbed “Facebook Stories” app will enable users around the globe to share their experiences, in particular (to loosely quote Zuckerberg’s bloggerazzi video statement) the impact of their Facebook connections on their lives. The interactive story-telling app lets users type their story directly into it which can then be seen by users via map-based location navigation, or clicking on mini icons in the list view. read more