1. FACEBOOK
Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004
that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc., with more than
845 million active users. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg( Born May14, 1984) is an
American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best
known for co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and
classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while
they were students at Harvard University.
2. WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE
USE FACEBOOK
People ages 18-34 spend the most time on Facebook, consisting of
8.5 hours out of 22.4 spent on line. People over 55 spend 4.6 out of a
total 21.5 hours on line.
3. FACEBBOOK STATS-
GENERAL GROWTH
More than 300 million active user
More than 150 million user log on each day
More than 2/3rds of users outside of college
The fastest growing demographic is 35&years.
About 70% of facebook users outside the U.S.
4. “WHAT’S HAPPENING
HERE?
Every serious business should have a presence on social networks.
Business need to make their connections meaningful.
Website magazine August 2009
Welcome to the Revoulution
5. FACEBOOK STAT-USER
ENGAGEMENT
Average user has 130 friends on the site
More than 6 billion minutes spent a day
More than 40 million user update their statuses once each day
More than 10 million users become fans of pages each day
6. FACEBOOK
On May24,2007 Zuckerberg announced Facebook Platform a
development platform for programmers to create social applications with
Facebook. Within weeks, many applications had been built some already
had millions of users. It grew to more than 800,000 developers around
the world building applications for Facebook Platform. On November
6,2007, Zuckerberg announced a new social adversting system called
Beacon, which enabled people to share information with their Facebook
friends based on their browsing activities on other sites.
7. FACEBOOK
In 2010 Zuckerberg was named Time Magazine’s Person of the
year. As of 2011, his personal wealth was estimated to be $17.5 billion
making him one of the world’s youngest billionaires. On July
21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the company reached the 500
million-user mark. In 2010, Steven Levy who authored the 1984 book
Hacers: Heroes of the Computer revolution, wrote that Zuckerber
clearly thinks of himself as a hacker.
8. FACEBOOK
President Barack Obama and Zuckerberg talk before a private
meeting where Obama dined with technology business leaders in
Woodside, California, February 17,2011.
