3. What is the ?
Facebook is a social networking
service and website launched in
February 2004, operated and privately
owned by Facebook Inc.
As of April 2012, Facebook has more
than 901 millon active users.
5. How to use ?
User must register before using
the site, after which they may
create a personal profile to add
other users as friends and
exhange messages, including
automatic nofications when they
update their profile.
6. Additionally, users may join common
interest users groups, organized by
workplace; school or college, or other
characteristics, and categorize their
friends into lists such as “People From
Work” or “Close Friends”.
In fact, Facebook’s purpose of
promotional was find old friends and
talk them again, but now it has
changed.
Users can play games to spen their
free time, add strangers to have more
friends, and subscribe to famous
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8. History of Facebook
Mark Zuckenberg wrote facemash,
the predecessor to facebook, on
October 28, 2003, while attending
Harvard as a sophomore.
According to The Harvard Crimson,
the site was comprable to “HOT or
NOT”, and “used photos compiled
from the facebooks of nine houses,
placing two next to each other at a
time and asking usesrs to choose
“Hotter person”
9. To accomplish this, Zuckenberg
hacked into the protected areas of
Harvard’s computer network and
copied the houses’ private dormitoryID
images.
Harvard at that time didn’t have a
student “facebook”( a directory with
photos and basic information), though
invidual houses had been issuing their
own paper facebooks since mid-
1980s.
Facemash attracted 450 visitors and
22,000 photo-views in its first four
10. The site was quickly
fowarded to several
campus group list-
servers, but was shut
down a few days later by
administration.
Zuckenberg was
charged by the
administration with
breach of security,
violating copyrights, and
violating individual
privacy, and faced
11. Zuckenberg expanded on this initial
project that semester by creating a
social study tool ahead of an art
history final, by uploading 500
Augustan images to a website, with
one image per page along with
comment section.
He opened the site up to his
classmates, and people started
sharing their notes.
12.
13. The following semester, Zuckenberg
began writing code for a new website
in January 2004.
He was inspired, he said by an
editorial in The Harvard Crimson
about the Facemash incident.
On February 4, 2004, Zuckenberg
launched “Thefacebook”, orginally
located at thefacebook.com
14. Six days after site launched, three
Harvard seniors, Cameron
Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and
Divya Narendra accused Zuckenberg
of intentionally misleading them into
believing he would help them build a
social network called
HarvardConnection.com, while he was
instead using their ideas to build a
competing product.
The three complained to the Harvard
Crimson and the newspaper began an
investigation.
15. The three later filed a lawsuit against
Zuckenberg, subsequently settling.
Membership was initially restricted to
students of Harvard College, and
within the first month, more than half
the undergraduate population at
Harvard was registered on service.
Eduardo Saverin(business aspects),
Dustin Moskovitz(programmer),
Andrew McCollum(graphic artist), and
Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckenberg
to help promote the website.
16. In March 2004, Facebook expanded
to Standford, Columbia, and Yale.
It soon opened to the other Ivy
Leauge schools, Boston York
Universty, MIT, and gradually most
universities in Canada and the United
States.
Facebook was incorporated in mid-
2004, and the entrepreneur Sean
Parker, who had been informally
advising Zuckerberg, became the
company's president.
17. In June 2004, Facebook moved its
base of operations to Palo Alto,
California.
It received its first investment later
that month from PayPAl co-founder
Peter Thiel.
The company dropped The from its
name after purchasing the domain
name facebook.com in 2005 for
200,000$.
Facebook launched a high-school
version in September 2005, which
Zuckerberg called the next logical step
18. At that time, high-school networks
required an invitation to join.
Facebook later expanded membership
eligibility to employees of several
companies, including Apple Inc. and
Microsoft.
Facebook was then opened on
September 26, 2006, to everyone of age
13 and older with a valid email address.
On October 24, 2007, Microsoft
announced that it had purchased a 1.6%
share of Facebook for $240 million,
giving Facebook a total implied value of
around $15 billion
19. Microsoft's purchase included rights
to place international ads on
Facebook.
In October 2008, Facebook
announced that it would set up its
international headquarters in Dublin,
Ireland.
In September 2009, Facebook said
that it had turned cash-flow positive for
the first time.
20. In November 2010, based on
SecondMarket Inc. an exchange for
shares of privately held companies,
Facebook's value was $41 billion
(slightly surpassing eBay) and it
became the third largest U.S. Web
company after Google and Amazon.
Traffic to Facebook increased
steadily after 2009. More people
visited Facebook than Google for the
week ending March 13, 2010
21. In March 2011 it was reported that
Facebook removes approximately
20,000 profiles from the site every day
for various infractions, including spam,
inappropriate content and underage
use, as part of its efforts to boost
cyber security.
22. In early 2011, Facebook announced
plans to move to its new
headquarters, the former Sun
Mıcrosystems campus in Menlo Park,
California.
Release of statistics by DoubleClick
showed that Facebook reached one
trillion pageviews in the month of June
2011, making it the most visited
website in the world.
23. It should however be noted that
Google and some of its selected
websites are not counted in the
DoubleClick rankings. According to the
Nielsen Media Research study,
released in December 2011,
Facebook is the second most
accessed website in the US.
24. In April 2012 Facebook bought the
application Instagram for US$ 1 billion.
25. In March 2012 Facebook announced
App Center, an online mobile store
which sells applications that connect
to Facebook. The store will be
available to iPhone, Android and
mobile web users.
