History+of+Facebook


 * History of Facebook:**

At Harvard University, a young man named Mark Zuckerberg was conducting a small project as one of his computer programming hobbies. His extensive research and financial aid from Eduardo Saverin (a co-founder of Facebook) led him to create a small social networking website that connected students from every dorm within Harvard. Before his creation, Zuckerberg had created other various social-networking websites such as Coursematch, and Facemash (Guardian). Coursematch allowed users to view people taking similar degrees, and Facemash, allowed users to rate people's attractiveness” (Guardian). This website was initially known as, “The Facebook.” Over time, the website expanded into other universities like Stanford and Yale (Mashable). With overwhelming increase of users, Zuckerberg decided to join two other students named Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes to help him direct his website.

Facebook made its global launch in February 2004, gathering over 8 million users in the United States of America alone, and expanding “worldwide to 7 other English-speaking countries, with more to follow” (Mashable). This made a huge impact for many users across these nations that brought competition to many other social networking websites such as MySpace. Facebook has become a social networking website that allows users to stay connected by updating their personal profiles, adding friends, and messaging them. People are able to share and upload pictures, videos, or blogs. From this point on, the social networking site took flight and became popular amongst young people. Currently there are “more than 400 million active users, as well as, 100 million that access it through a mobile device” (Facebook). The amount of users accessing Facebook through various mobile devices and computers indicates the presence of a global convergence. Facebook has become a social phenomenon where it is being constantly accessed across the globe. As a result, of a multitude of people using Facebook issues regarding privacy arise.