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Facebook is a social networking site and was established in February 2004. Just seven years later, Facebook has over 600 million active users, making it a phenomenal success.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in conjunction with his college roommates and fellow students, Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz and Eduardo Saverin. The thinking behind it was to enable Harvard freshmen to interact, with the result that half of Harvard’s population had signed up to the site within a month of it being launched. Its popularity soon made it expand to include other colleges in the Boston area, and then students from other universities. It wasn’t long before high school students were allowed, and then finally Facebook became available to anyone over the age of 13 (though statistics show that there are currently 7.5 million children under this age who have Facebook accounts).
From these humble beginnings, Facebook is now the most popular and widely used social networking site, followed by MySpace.
Facebook’s now iconic name was inspired by the book that some colleges produce with student photographs in order to aid recognition and to break down barriers, but this wasn’t Zuckerman’s first foray into the world of social networking. Harvard didn’t have its own ‘facebook’ so he hacked into their network and copied the ID pictures; from this he created Facemash, which had 450 visits and 22,000 photo views within the first four hours that the site was live.
Harvard reacted quickly and shut the site down, and Zuckerman faced expulsion on the grounds of invading privacy, but the charges were dropped eventually.
An interesting fact is that acccording to statistics given in March 2011, Facebook removes over 200,000 profiles every single day for infractions of the rules.
Facebook is a social networking site and was established in February 2004. Just seven years later, Facebook has over 600 million active users, making it a phenomenal success.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in conjunction with his college roommates and fellow students, Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz and Eduardo Saverin. The thinking behind it was to enable Harvard freshmen to interact, with the result that half of Harvard’s population had signed up to the site within a month of it being launched. Its popularity soon made it expand to include other colleges in the Boston area, and then students from other universities. It wasn’t long before high school students were allowed, and then finally Facebook became available to anyone over the age of 13 (though statistics show that there are currently 7.5 million children under this age who have Facebook accounts).
From these humble beginnings, Facebook is now the most popular and widely used social networking site, followed by MySpace.
Facebook’s now iconic name was inspired by the book that some colleges produce with student photographs in order to aid recognition and to break down barriers, but this wasn’t Zuckerman’s first foray into the world of social networking. Harvard didn’t have its own ‘facebook’ so he hacked into their network and copied the ID pictures; from this he created Facemash, which had 450 visits and 22,000 photo views within the first four hours that the site was live.
Harvard reacted quickly and shut the site down, and Zuckerman faced expulsion on the grounds of invading privacy, but the charges were dropped eventually.
An interesting fact is that acccording to statistics given in March 2011, Facebook removes over 200,000 profiles every single day for infractions of the rules.
