Facebook
Facebook is one of the world’s biggest social networking sites. In an interview, its founder Mark Zuckerberg that the Facebook team would do their best to keep it the web’s number one communication site, even though it would be work.
Facebook started out after Zuckerberg’s introduction of Facemash.com in October 2003. At that time, Zuckerberg was studying at Harvard University in the United States. After hacking into Harvard’s database, Mark to load the Facemash site with pictures of students. Facemash site visitors (Zuckerberg’s Harvard classmates) had the chance to compare the pictures side by side and decide who was “hot” and who was “not”. However, days later some angry students asked Zuckerberg to shut the site down because they didn’t want their photos on the site. However, one thing was clear, many people wanted pictures of their friends on the Internet.
11th January 2004, Zuckerberg registered the facebook.com domain. According to Mark, Facebook thanks to the inspiration from the Facemash incident. It was the first chance for students to get in touch with each other over the Internet, so within 24 hours, over one thousand students signed up. Soon after that, more universities the network.
Facebook is different from social networking sites. People say that Facebook is better you can communicate with people you really know and trust. Before, people didn’t share their real identities online. Facebook has given people a safe environment in they can interact online. It has changed the way people view the world. A friend from any country is only several clicks away.
In 2005, university magazine in Australia published a study which said that about 85% of students on the Internet had accounts on Facebook. At the end of 2005, Facebook was introduced in the U.K. and since 2006 the site available in 35 languages. More than half of its users aren’t at college any more, and the fastest-growing group is 30-to-40-year-olds. Every day 15 million users update their profiles to tell their friends and the world what’s on. The number of users is still increasing.