History Of Facebook

HISTORY OF FACEBOOK.

In January 2004, the following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new site. He was inspired, he said, by an editorial in The Harvard Crimson about the Face mash incident. "It is clear that the technology needed to create a centralized page that is clearly available. The benefits would be many. "On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located on the website thefacebook.com. "They were talking a lot about the universal photo books at Harvard," Zuckerberg spoke to The Harvard Crimson. "I think it is a type of disease that would take the University a couple of years to cover it. I can do better than them, and I can do it in a week. ""When Mark finished the site, talked to a couple of friends. And then one of them suggested putting it on the mailing list of the Kirkland House, which was ... three hundred people, "according to a roommate Dustin Muscovite. "And once they did that, several dozen people joined, and then were among them. At the end of the night, we were ... actively watching the registration process. Within twenty-four hours, we had somewhere between 1200 and 1500 registered ".

Exactly six days after the site launched, three senior Harvard, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally deceiving them into believing he would help build a social network called Harvard Connection, while he, instead, I was using their ideas to build a competitive producer.

The three told The Harvard and the newspaper began an investigation. Zuckerberg used his site, TheFacebook.com to search the site members who identified themselves as members of the Crimson. Then considered a record of failed records to see if any of the Crimson members to TheFacebook.com entered an incorrect password. Where they have entered a failed record, Mark tried to use them to access the email account of the members of Crimson. He managed successfully accessed two of them. The three later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, later settling.

Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first month, more than half of undergraduate students at Harvard were registered on the service. Eduardo Saverin (business theme), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the site. In March two thousand and four, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia and Yale. This expansion continued when it was opened to all Ivy League and Boston area schools, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States. In June two thousand and four, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California. The company took its name after registering your domain name facebook.com in two thousand $ two hundred five thousand.

As of July two thousand and ten , the social network facebook.com was most prominent along eight individual markets in Southeast Asia and Oceania (Philippines, Australia , Indonesia , Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand , Hong Kong and Vietnam ) , while other brands commanded the top positions in certain markets, including Orkut , owned by Google , India and Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Renner in China ( where Facebook is currently inaccessible ) , CyWorld in South Korea and Wretch.cc , owned by Yahoo!! , in Taiwan. Additionally, Facebook became the largest photo hosting on the Internet, being quoted by the aggregator Pixable photos as I expected to have a hundred billion photos in the summer of two thousand eleven.

What is Facebook?

Facebook is a website that provides access to the world's largest social network. It aims to facilitate its users to stay in touch with acquaintances, in order to communicate with them whenever they want to. This article looks at some of the most important aspects of the website that is revolutionizing the way we communicate over the Internet. Anyone can be a member of facebook, through email.

-Structure progressed how the social network.

Facebook began allowing college student’s aggregate students whose schools were not included in the site due to user requests. In March two thousand six Business Week reported that it was negotiating a potential acquisition of the site. Facebook declined an offer of $ seven million.

In May two thousand six network Facebook was successfully extended in India, with support from institutes of technology in that country. In June two thousand and six, there was an agreement with iTunes and iTunes Store will know the musical tastes of users and offer a download link on your own site. In August, two thousand six, Facebook added universities in Germany and Israel to its network. It also introduced import blogs Xanga, Live Journal or Blogger.

Since September, two thousand six Facebook is open to all Internet users, despite protests from many of their users, it would lose the basis on which student had remained.

In July, two thousand seven, Facebook announced its first acquisition, Para key, Inc. Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt. In August of the same year he devoted the cover of the prestigious magazine Newsweek; plus integration with YouTube.

In the middle of two thousand seven versioned launched the French, German and Spanish translated by users so unpaid, primarily to boost its expansion outside the United States, since its users are concentrated in the U.S., Canada and UK. Facebook has more than nine million members, and translations into seventy languages. In January, two thousand thirteen thousand Facebook reached two hundred thirty million users of which there are more than six hundred million mobile users. Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico and the United States are the countries with the most users, however, and there are users who have more than one account.

Its main infrastructure consists of a network of more than fifty thousand servers using distributions of GNU / Linux operating system using LAMP.

Later that same year sold a Facebook, the one. Six% to Microsoft in exchange for $ two hundred million forties, with the proviso that Facebook would become a business model for brands where offered their products and services, according to user and profile of this. This acquisition valued Facebook at fifteen billion dollars, but consensus among analysts was that this figure exceeded the actual value of the company - for Microsoft was not just a financial investment, but also a strategic move on the Internet.

In July, two thousand nine Mark Zuckerberg was announced that Facebook had reached two hundred and fifty million users. The September fifteen of that year announced that it was over three hundred million and the December two already had more than three hundred million. In September two thousand and eleven had over eight hundred million users.

The April nine, two thousand Twelve Instagram announced that Facebook acquired for a billion dollars. In February two thousand and fourteen responsible for Facebook announced the purchase of the mobile messaging service WhatsApp for sixteen billion dollars.

- Services offered

Currently Facebook offers a variety of services to users and offers listed below:

• Mailbox: Here, the user can add to anyone who knows and is registered, provided they accept your invitation. In Facebook you can find friends with whom contact was lost or add new ones with whom to exchange photos or messages. To do this, the server has Facebook search tools and suggestions of friends.

• Chat: Instant Messaging Service on mobile devices and computers via Facebook Messenger.

• Groups and pages: Is one of the more recent development utilities. It is bringing together people with common interests. In groups you can add photos, videos, messages, etc.The pages are created for specific purposes and unlike the groups do not contain discussion forums, as they are directed towards specific brands or characters and not to call any

In addition, groups also have their rules, among which the prohibition of discriminatory or thematic groups that incite hatred and disrespect and honor of the people included. While this is not true in many cases, there is the option to denounce and report groups that go against this rule, which includes a Facebook link in each group which is headed for a box of claims and complaints.

• Wall: The Wall is a space on each user profile that allows friends to write messages to the user's display. It is only visible to registered users. Allows you to enter images and put any logos on your post. Improved call good wall to embed flash animations, etc..

• Photos: According to Facebook, there are:

O five billion user photos.

O hundred terabytes of storage.

• Gifts: gifts or gifts are small icons with a message. Gifts given to a user appear on the wall with the message of the donor, unless the donor decides to give the gift privately, in which case the name of the donor and the message is not displayed to other users.

And "anonymous" option is also available, by which anyone with profile access can see the gift but only the recipient will see the message.

• Button "Like": This function is displayed on the bottom of each post by the user or his contacts (status updates, sharing content, etc.) Made, is characterized by a small icon with a hand with thumb up. Possible to determine whether the content is liking the current user in the social network, just as is notified to the person who posted this topic originally if the liking of someone else (any of your contacts) previously going to be called "I'm impressed "but users decided to name it" Like ", although it is also called

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