Facebook was originally called "TheFacebook" and was created by Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard. It has since grown to be one of the largest social networks in the world. Key events included investments from Peter Thiel and Microsoft, moving headquarters to California, and acquisitions of companies like Instagram to expand its services. Controversies include lawsuits from the Winklevoss twins over the founding of the company and concerns over privacy and data use. Zuckerberg remains the CEO and has helped shape Facebook's continued growth.

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2. Facebook was originally called "thefacebook" and was open to a network of college
students, but in August 2005, the company paid $200,000 to change its domain name
to facebook.com.
It received its first investment from PayPal co-
founder Peter Thiel.
Thiel.
The predecessor to Facebook was Facemash written by
Mark Zuckeberg.
Peter Thiel
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.
In early 2011, Facebook announced plans to move to its new headquarters, the
former Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, California.
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3. Accel Partners and Digital Sky Technologies both of them
Technologies,
own 10% share of facebook.
Yuri Milner of Digital Sky Technologies
In 2008, Collins English Dictionary declared "Facebook" as its new Word of the
Year.
In December 2009, the New Oxford American Dictionary declared its word of
the year to be the verb "unfriend", defined as "To remove someone as a 'friend' on
a social networking site such as Facebook.
In April 2010, according to The New York Times, countries with the most
Facebook users were the United States, the United Kingdom, and Indonesia.
Indonesia.
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4. Ivy Bean (8 September 1905 – 28 July 2010) was a
British internet personality, known for being the
oldest person in the world on both Facebook
and Twitter.
"You Have 0 Friends" an April 2010 episode of the American animated comedy
Friends",
series, South Park, parodied Facebook.
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5. Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron
Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg of
Narendra,
intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social
network called HarvardConnection.com.
HarvardConnection.com.
Cameron Winklevoss Cameron Winklevoss Divya Narendra
& Tyler Winklevoss
He is currently the CEO and
They competed in the men's pair rowing event at
co-founder of SumZero.
the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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6. Sean Parker an American technology businessman and entrepreneur & co-
Parker,
founder of Napster, Plaxo, Causes, and Airtime was Facebook's founding
president.

7. ACQUISITIONS
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8. Parakey is a Web-based computer user interface
proposed by Firefox contributors Blake Ross and Joe
Hewitt.
Hewitt.
Blake Ross Joe Hewitt
Drop.io was an online file sharing service.
Drop.io was founded by Sam Lessin and Darshan
Somashekar in August 2007.
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9. FriendFeed is a real-time feed aggregator that consolidates
the updates from social media and social
networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs
and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of
RSS/ Atom feed.
The founders are all former Google Inc. employees who were involved in the
Inc.
launch of services such as Gmail and Google Maps. They include Paul Buchheit,
Taylor.
Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh and Bret Taylor.
Bret Taylor
Paul Buchheit Jim Norris

10. Chai Labs began operations in 2007 by Gokul
Rajaram,
Rajaram a former Google employee also known
as "godfather of Adsense".
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11. FACEBOOK
FOUNDERS
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12. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
In 2010, Zuckerberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year.
On Zuckerberg's Facebook page, he listed
his personal interests as "openness, making
things that help people connect and share
what's important to them, revolutions,
minimalism".
information flow, minimalism".
Zuckerberg sees blue best because of red–
green color blindness; blue is also
Facebook's dominant color.
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13. During Zuckerberg's high school years, under the company name Intelligent
Media Group, he built a music player called the Synapse Media Player that
used artificial intelligence to learn the user's listening habits.
On December 9, 2010, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates,
and investor Warren Buffett signed a promise
they called the "Giving Pledge", in which they
promised to donate to charity at least half of
their wealth over the course of time.
He is known amongst his close friends for his keen interest in classics, poems and
Greek odysseys. This became evident during a Facebook product conference
where he quoted lines from the Latin epic poem Aeneid, by Virgil.
Zuckerberg plays himself in an episode of The Simpsons, "Loan-a Lisa", which
, "Loan-
originally aired on October 3, 2010.
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14. Dustin Moskovitz
Moskovitz owns a 6% share of Facebook.
He co-founded and is CEO of Asana.
In March 2011 Forbes ranked Moskovitz
as the world's youngest billionaire on the
basis of his share in Facebook.
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15. Chris Hughes
He is the Executive Director of Jumo,
which he founded in 2010.
Jumo is a non-profit social network
organization which "aims to help people
find ways to help the world."
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16. Hughes was the coordinator of online organizing
for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign
on My.BarackObama.com, the campaign's online
social networking website.
He was the subject of an April 2009 cover story
in Fast Company magazine under the headline,
"The Kid Who Made Obama President; How
Facebook Cofounder Chris Hughes Unleashed
Barack's Base - and Changed Politics and
Marketing Forever".
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17. Eduardo P. Saverin
Saverin has invested 8 million USD
in Qwiki.
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18. The Social Network is a 2010 American drama film directed by David
Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin.
David Fincher
The White Stripes' song "Ball and Biscuit" can
be heard in the opening of the film and The
Beatles' song "Baby, You're a Rich Man"
concludes the film. Neither song appears on the
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19. Jesse Eisenberg
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Eduardo P. Saverin Andrew Garfield
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Chris Hughes
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21. BOOKS
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22. Ben Mezrich is the author of "Accidental
Mezrich, Accidental
Billionaires: Facebook:
Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A
Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal."
Betrayal.
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