Facebook surely has captured our attention to unimaginable proportions. It has also gone to the extent of capturing our minds and physically gluing us to our computer chairs for hours together. But if you think about the actual facts not many people know about this particular domain that they use on a regular basis. If you are one of those people who do not know much about facebook, then you would have to read the following to learn a little bit more about that particular social networking site that seems to take hours out of our every single day.
• Facebook is a privately owned social networking site that is owned by Facebook Inc.
• By 2009, facebook became the most popular and largely used social networking site all over the world.
• This particular site has been banned in a few countries though. China, Morocco, Syria are some of the countries that have harsh punishments for users who log on to this particular site. Iran initially passed a ban on facebook, but later withdrew the same.
• Mark Zuckerberg is the creator and founder of face book.
• He happened to create this particular networking site from his dorm room.
• This particular site was a result of an evening after Mark’s girlfriend dumped him!
• Later Mark expanded on this particular dorm facebook project and came up with the networking site as a project for his semester course.
• In Jan 2004, Mark started writing a new code for a new website and by Feb the same year, he was able to launch the actual facebook and initially it was called the facebook. com.
• Being a college project, this particular site was confined to the Harvard University but in just 1 month’s time, half of the under-grad students had already become members and were using this site on a regular basis.
• By March of the same year, a facebook login was available to a lot of other universities and colleges.
• Following the success with other colleges, facebook expanded to schools and also to offices.
• By 2005, thefacebook.com became facebook.com
• By September 2006 facebook logins were available to all over the age of 13 and who had an active email address.
• By October 2008, facebook set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and since then it has been available to users like you and me across the globe.
• In the year 2005, facebook had a tremendous net loss of $3.6 million. With time it also suffered rumors of being shut down completely or to be acquired by another company.
• Though facebook had an offer of $750 million, it still declined the same and was solely run by Facebook Inc.
Now here are the must know facts about the social networking site that we all love so much. It is always best to equip ourselves with such knowledge for it may come in handy some time or another. Know these facts well and use facebook in the best and the safest way possible. Have fun.
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