Facebook is a social networking website where users can join the community such as city, work, school, and region to connect and interact with others. People also can add their friends, send messages, and update your personal profile for others to see about him.Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard graduate and former Ardsley High School student was first launched on 4 February and initially only for students of Harvard College. In the next two months, its membership expanded to other schools in the Boston area (Boston College, Boston University, MIT, Tufts), Rochester, Stanford, NYU, Northwestern, and all schools are included in the Ivy League.
Many other universities are further added in succession within one year after its release. Finally, the people who have a university email address (such as. Edu,. Ac.uk, etc.) from around the world can also join this site.
Later Facebook also developed a network for schools and the level of a few large companies. Since September 11, 2006, people with an email address can register anything on Facebook. Users can choose to join one or more networks are available, such as on top-level schools, the workplace, or geographic region.
Facebook to see the problem in recent years in countries such as blocking Syria, Iran and some of the workplace so that workers do not abuse the time it works to open Facebook. And the issue of allegations that Zuckerber stealing code from other programs to make themes for Facebook.
Facebook has also been offered by yahoo worth $ 1 billion and then by a member of the board of Facebook, to show that Facebook's internal valuation is around $ 8 billion based on projected revenues of $ 1 billion in 2015.
Facebook ranked as I write this article was ranked the 5th most sites in the world.
The following data on facebook:Founded: Cambridge, Massachusetts (February 4, 2004)
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CaliforniaDublin, Ireland (international headquarters for Europe, Africa, Middle East)
Key people: Mark Zuckerberg (Founder and CEO), Dustin Moskovitz (Co-founder), Sheryl Sandberg (COO), Matt Cohler (VP of Product Management), ChrisHughes (Co-founder)
Revenue: 300 million USD (2008 est..)
Net income: 47.4 million USD (2007 est..)
Employees: 700 (November 2008)
Website: facebook.com
Type of site: Social network service
Advertising: Banner ads, Referral Marketing
Registration: Required
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