Facebook History

Facebook is a
social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and
privately owned by Facebook, Facebook has more than 800 million active
users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a
personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including
automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may
join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or
other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as
"People From Work" or "Close Friends".
Founded Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
(2004)
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates
and fellow students Eduardo
Saverin, Dustin
Moskovitz and Chris
Hughes. The Web site's membership
was initially limited by the founders to Harvard
students, but was expanded to other colleges
in the Boston
area, the Ivy
League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support
for students at various other universities
before opening to high school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and
over. However, based on ConsumersReports.org on May 2011, there are 7.5 million
children under 13 with accounts, violating the site's terms of service.
Mark Zuckerberg
wrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while
attending Harvard as a sophomore. According
to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable
to Hot or Not,
and "used photos
compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each
other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person".
To accomplish
this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas
of Harvard's computer network and copied the houses' private dormitory ID
images. Harvard at that time did not have
a student "facebook" (a directory with
photos and basic information). Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000
photo-views in its first four hours online.
Facebook has affected the social
life and activity of people in various ways. Especially with its availability
on many mobile devices, Facebook allows users to continuously stay in touch
with friends, relatives and other acquaintances wherever they are in the world,
as long as there is access to the Internet. It can also unite people with
common interests and/or beliefs through groups and other pages, and has been
known to reunite lost family members and friends. One such reunion was between
John Watson and the daughter he had been seeking for 20 years. They met after
Watson found her Facebook profile. Another father-daughter reunion was between
Tony Macnauton and Frances Simpson, who had not seen each other for nearly 48
years.
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"Addicted To Facebook So Much ! "