nPostednon February 4, 2016
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Lovenit or hate it, you’ve almost certainly heard of Facebook.
Lovenit or hate it, you’ve almost certainly heard of Facebook.n
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nIt’snthe Number 1 social media networking site, with almost four times asnmany users as Number 2 (Twitter).
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nAndnit’s 12 years old today!
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nFoundernMark Zuckerberg famously started the website while he was a studentnat Harvard University. Harvard students live in one of 12 residentialnhouses, each with some 350 to 500 students, each with its own diningnhall, common rooms, and other facilities. Many of the houses offerednpaper “Facebooks” to their members; these were directories withneach house member’s photo, name, and a bit of info. Zuckerberg usednthe photos from nine houses’ Facebooks to make a “who’s hotter?”nonline game that became immediately successful but was shut downnalmost as immediately by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg wasnalmost expelled, but he was inspired to go on with his project ofnmaking an online social network. He launched it on this date in 2004,nunder the name “Thefacebook,” located at thefacebook.com.
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nZuckerbergnwas sued by other students who complained that he had tricked them—henhad promised to help them build a Harvard social network, but (theynsaid) instead he used their ideas to create a competing socialnnetwork. They finally settled their lawsuit several years later for anhefty amount of shares in Facebook! Cha-ching!
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nThefacebooknwas restricted to only students of Harvard, but after a monthnZuckerberg and his business partners expanded to other Ivy Leaguenuniversities. Gradually, they widened the circle to more and morenuniversities…then high school students…then anybody in the worldnwho was at least 13 years old (or willing to lie about their age).
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nAlmostntwo billion people in the world now use Facebook! Only about threenbillion people in the world use the internet at all, so that’s anpretty good percentage of all web-surfers!
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| Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg has probably had a Facebook profile a lot longer than President Obama, who only got his own FB profile in November of 2015! |
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nThencompany is now worth more than 44 billion dollars!! And it employsnmore than 11 thousand people. Hmm…how is that possible, when we allnuse it for free?
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Ofncourse, there are many people, including people who actually usenFacebook, who criticize aspects of the company, and/or aspects ofnsocial media at all! Herenis a YouTube criticism that seems really apt!
Ofncourse, there are many people, including people who actually usenFacebook, who criticize aspects of the company, and/or aspects ofnsocial media at all! Herenis a YouTube criticism that seems really apt! n
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nAlsonon this date:
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Composer Johann Ludwig Bach’s birthday
Composer Johann Ludwig Bach’s birthday
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nCivilnrights icon Rosa Parks’s birthday
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nSrinLanka’s Independence Day
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nAstronomernClyde Tombaugh’s birthday
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nPlannahead:
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