What is Facebook?

Facebook is one of the best known of the social networking sites. Created in 2004, originally as a way for students at Harvard University to get to know each other, it now has almost two billion monthly users with FIVE new profiles being created every second. Anyone over the age of 13 can use the site and it currently boasts its oldest user at 107 years old. Many parents and grandparents use the site to keep in contact with grandchildren and family around the world. Users create a free account which is a profile of them in which they share as much or as little information about themselves as they wish. Profiles can be created using a real name are often accompanied by a photograph. In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched “The facebook”, as it was originally known; the name taken from the sheets of paper distributed to freshmen, profiling students and staff. Within 24 hours, 1,200 Harvard students had signed up, and after one month, over half of the undergraduate population had a profile. The network was promptly extended to other Boston universities, the Ivy League and eventually all US universities. It became Facebook.com in August 2005 after the address was purchased for $200,000. US high schools could sign up from September 2005, then it began to spread worldwide, reaching UK universities the following month.

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