About Facebook

Facebook is one of the many Online Social Networking or Social Networking Sites that exist in the universe web.sebuah social networking services and web site launched in February 2004 that is operated and owned by Facebook, Inc. On January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users. Users can create personal profiles, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. In addition, users can join a group of users who have a specific purpose, sorted by place of work, school, college, or other characteristics. The service name is derived from the name of the book is given to students in the first academic year by university administrations in the U.S. with the goal of helping students get to know each other. Facebook allows anyone aged 13 years to be registered on the site ini.Facebook founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his roommate and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz danChris Hughes. Membership was initially limited to the web site for Harvard students only, then expanded to other colleges in Boston, Ivy League, and Stanford University. This site is slowly opening up to students at other universities before opening for high school students, and ultimately to every person aged at least 13 years.

Compete.com study in January 2009 put up as social networking services most used by monthly active users around the world, followed by MySpace.] Entertainment Weekly put it in the list of "best" end of the decade with the comment, "How can we ex-boyfriend stalking us , given the anniversary of our colleagues, annoying our friends, and play a game Scrabulous before Facebook was created? " Quantcast estimates that Facebook had 135.1 million monthly visitors in the U.S. in October 2010.According to Social Media Today in April 2010, estimated that 41.6% of Americans have a Facebook account.
With more than 200 million accounts and growing current in the world of Facebook users has reached 219 286 560 user. Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, the predecessor of Facebook, dated October 28, 2003 while at Harvard as a sophomore.According to The Harvard Crimson, the site is similar to Hot or Not, and use the "photos from facebook (face book) online in nine dorms, placing two images side by side at a time.

The positive impact of facebook:-Strengthen relationshipKnowing the potential of self--Media campaignMeans-discussionPlace vent-Negative impacts of the facebook:Boros-moneyLazy-learning-Triggering of promiscuity without limitsThe language used in facebook Universal (worldwide).To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the Harvard computer network is protected and copy the pictures private dormitory ID.Harvard at the time did not have a "face book" (the directory containing the images and basic information) students. Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 image on the first four hours on the air. The site is immediately forwarded to several campus group servers, but turned off a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg was convicted of break through campus security, violating copyrights and violating individual privacy, and the danger removed. However, the penalty is canceled. Zuckerberg initially expand this project in the semester to make the tools of social studies to art history final exams, with 500 paintings Augusta upload to the website, with one image per page with a comment box. He opened the site to his classmates, and they began to share catatan. Pada following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004. He was inspired, he says, by The Harvard Crimson editorial about the incident Facemash.] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook" which was originally located on the site thefacebook.comEnam days after the site was launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accuses Zuckerberg deliberately distract them so that they believe it helps them create a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he uses their ideas to create a product saingan.Ketiganya complained to the Harvard Crimson, and this newspaper started an investigation.Three senior filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg finally diselesaikan.Keanggotaan initially limited to Harvard College students only, and the first month, more than half of undergraduate students at Harvard are listed on the site ini.Eduardo Saverin (businessman), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote this website. Month of March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford himself, Columbia, and Yale. The site is then opened to other Ivy League schools, Boston University, New York University, MIT, and slowly a few universities in Canada and the United States.Facebook incorporated in the summer of 2004, and entrepreneur Sean Parker, who often give advice to Zuckerberg, was appointed president of the company. Month of June 2004, Facebook moved its operations to Palo Alto center, California.Perusahaan received its first investment in the co-founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel. The company is removing from its name after buying the domain name facebook.com in 2005 with a value of $ 200,000. Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005 that Zuckerberg is considered as the next logical step. At that time, school networks need an invitation to bergabung.Facebook then expand its membership requirements to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc.. and Microsoft. Facebook was then opened on 26 September 2006 to every person aged 13 years and upwards with the e-mail address sah.Pada October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it has bought 1.6% stake in Facebook valued at $ 240 million, giving Facebook a value of $ 15 billion. Purchases by Microsoft include their right to place international ads on Facebook.Month of October 2008, Facebook announced that they will open an international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland In September 2009, Facebook said that they had a positive cash flow for the first time.Month of November 2010, according to SecondMarket Inc., A stock private company, the value of Facebook reached $ 41 billion (mengalahkaneBay lightly) and a web company the third largest in the U.S. after Google and Amazon Facebook has been targeted as a candidate has the potential for an initial public offering in 2013.traffic to Facebook increased steadily after 2009. Number of visitors up to beat Google on March 13, 2010. Facebook is also a social network of the top eight individual markets in Asia, the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Vietnam, while other brands still retain their top position in several markets, including Google's Orkut in India , Mixi.jp in Japan, CyWorld in South Korea, and Yahoo!-owned Wretch.cc in Taiwan.