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Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg
with his college roommates
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From Wikipedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the website. For the collection of photographs of people after
which it is named,
see Facebook (directory). Facebook, Inc. Type Private Founded Cambridge, Massachusetts[1] (2004 (2004)) Founder Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin Dustin Moskovitz Chris Hughes Headquarters Palo Alto, California, U.S., currently being moved to Menlo Park, California, U.S.
Area served Worldwide Key people Mark Zuckerberg (CEO) Chris Cox (VP of Product) Sheryl Sandberg (COO) Donald E. Graham (Chairman) Revenue US$2 billion (2010 est.)[*] Net income N/A Employees 2000+ (2010)[**] Website facebook.com IPv6 support www.v6.facebook.com Alexa rank 2 (September 2011)[4] Type of site Social networking service Advertising Banner ads, referral marketing, casual games
Registration Required Users 750 million [] (active in July 2011)
Available in Multilingual Launched February 4, 2004 Current status Active Screenshot Screenshot of Facebook's current homepage Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004,
operated and privately
owned by Facebook, Inc.[] As of July 2011, Facebook has more than
750 million active users.[]
Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange
messages, including automatic
notifications when they update their profile. Facebook users must register before using the
site. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups,
organized by workplace, school or college,
___or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists, e.g.
"People From Work",
or
"Really Good Friends". The name of the service stems from
the colloquial name for the book given
to students at the start of the academic
year by university administrations in the
United States to help
students get to know each other. Facebook allows any users
who declare themselves
to be at least 13
years old to become registered users of the
website.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college
roommates and fellow computer science
students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
The website's membership was initially limited by the <<founders>> to Harvard students,
but it was expanded
to other colleges in the Boston area,
the Ivy League,
and Stanford University.
It gradually added
support for students at various other universities before opening to high school
students, and, finally, to
anyone aged 13 and over. However, based on ConsumersReports.org on May 2011,
there are 7.5 million children under 13 with
accounts, violating the site's terms.[] A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook
as the most used social networking service by
worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.
Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list,
saying, "How on earth
did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers'
birthdays, bug our friends, and play
a rousing game of
Scrabulous before Facebook?"[] Quantcast estimates Facebook has 138.9 million monthly unique U.S.
visitors in May 2011.
According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6%
of the U.S. population had a
Facebook account.
Nevertheless, Facebook's market growth started to stall in some regions,
with the site losing 7 million
active users in the United States and Canada in May 2011.
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