Facebook

Valeria Rivero
Marielena Souza
Soledad Cardoso

History of Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service launched in
February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook. It
was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college
roommates and fellow Harvard University students
Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz
and Chris Hughes.[1] The website's membership was
initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but
was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the
Ivy League,[2] and gradually most universities in Canada
and the United States,[3][4] corporations,[5] and by
September 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older to
make a group with a valid email address.[6]

Facemash
Facemash, the Facebooks predecessor, opened
on October 28, 2003.[8] Initially, the website was
invented by a Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg,
and three of his classmates Andrew McCollum,
Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. Zuckerberg
wrote the software for the Facemash website when
he was in his second year of college. The website
was set up as a type of hot or not game for
Harvard students. The website allowed visitors to
compare two student pictures side-by-side and let
them choose who was hot and who was not.....

Mark Zuckerberg
crteator of facebook

Mark Zuckerberg, Creator of

Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg, who turned 26 years old on
May 14, 2010, is thought to be the worlds richest
young man, with a net worth of $1.5 billion. His
creation of Facebook, originally a social
networking site exclusively for Harvard students,
has become, according to Wired, a model for how
connection, communication and commerce can
work online, nothing less than a radical and
ambitious rethinking of the Internets potential.

The Evolution
The evolution of Facebook was very rapid,
and also broad in terms of its functions and
usefulness. It grew from 7 million studentusers in 2004 to 66 million users worldwide
in October 2008. Recent statistics show
there are now 500 million active Facebook
users