Like most human inventions and the idea for Facebook comes from nowhere. Facebook is born from a little idea called Facemash – exchange of information and photos between the students in Harvard University. In 2003 the student Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, which makes him the most discussion and one of the richest people in the world.
Till this moment there wasn’t similar system for exchange of information and photos so 4 hours after the launch of Facemash, the site was visited by over 450 students and there were more than 20 000 photos review. A little bit later, Zuckerberg introduced some changes and renamed Facemash on The Facebook. Initially, this system is used only by students at Harvard University for the sharing of information and photos. Latter The Facebook this new social network was extended to the other universities in America. At that time Dustin Moskovitz (programmer) and Chris Hughs start help to Zuckerberg for The Facebook. In 2004 Pay Pal invested in the project 500 000 dollars. Also in this year The Facebook become just Facebook. In early 2005 was bought the official domain facebook.com - the best investment from 200 000dollars ever. Accel invested in Facebook 12.7 million dollars and Greylock the fabulous 27 500 000 dollars. Soon the new social network involved the employees of some companies such Apple and Microsoft, after some time Facebook become generally accessible. The only competitor of Facebook was the largest social network by then – My Space. In 2006 Yahoo offered 1 billion dollars to buy Facebook from Zuckerberg but he didn’t agree. A year later Microsoft bought 1,6% share in Facebook for 240 million dollars.
This is the story of the most popular social network in the world at the moment – Facebook. The truth is that this platform allows everyone to live his other life, to choose how to look, his job, his friends, to connect with people from his past, his current friends and to find new friends all over the world, to share information, photos and whatever he wants. 24 hours a day there are million people online in Facebook who share. The social element of this network comes from the fact you can keep connection with many people you know from the real life and also have a profile in Facebook. The information you share is visible and accessible to all your friends, they can discuss, share and like or dislike the things on your profile while you do the same with the information which they share on their profiles.
Nowadays every event, company, product and of course million of people from all races and ages have their own Facebook profile or Facebook fan page!
