Facebook History

Facebook is a social networking website launched on the popular February 4, 2004. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard student and former Ardsley High School students. Initially limited membership to 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 e-mail address of a university (such as:. Edu,. Ac,. Uk, etc.) from around the world can also join this social networking site.

Furthermore also developed a network for schools and the level of a few large companies. Since September 11, 2006, people with e-mail address can register anything on Facebook.Users can choose to join one or more networks are available, such as by schools, the workplace, or geographic region.

Until July 2007, facebook has a number of registered users among the biggest sites that focus on schools with more than 34 million active members from all over the world have. From September 2006 until September 2007, its ranking rose from 60th position to 7th position of the most visited sites, and is the number one site for photos in the United States, surpassed other public sites such as Flickr, with 8.5 million photos uploaded every day.

Entertainment feature on Facebook called the application. Examples include video games, quizzes, and so forth.