As
you know, Facebook is the most famous social networking site in the world today
and Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of Facebook. The Facebook website was
originally called thefacebook.com and was launched on January 2004. According
to Zukerberg’s statement in the article in The Harvard Crimson that he was inspired
to make Facebook from his earlier website Facemash the Facebook’s predecessor.
Story behind Facebook
Zukerberg
started thinking to create a website that can connect all students in the
university. Zukerberg’s friend Moskovitz said when Zukerberg completed the
website, he told some of his friends about that, one of them suggested putting it
on the Kirkland online mailing list, within 24 hours they got around fifteen
hundred registrations. Day by day, registration to Facebook increased, Facebook
expanded its user base to Stanford-California, Columbia-South America, and
Yale-US. As the company expanding, in 2005, they purchased the domain name called
facebook.com for $200,000, dropping ‘the’ from it.
On
October 1st 2005, Facebook expanded to more than 21 universities in the
UK and other countries in the world. Facebook launched its high school version
in the September month of 2015. Later, Facebook allowed employees of several
major companies including Microsoft and Apple to become user of Facebook. In
2007, Facebook had 100,000 business pages, helping businesses to attract customers.
Facebook
became the largest online photo host website in February 2011 in the world. And
Zukarberg expected 100 million of photos to be added in Facebook at the end of
2011. According to Facebook, over 350 millions of people accessed facebook
through the mobile phone as of October 2011.
Challenges
Facebook Faced
Facebook
was alleged by Yahoo on 12th March 2012 in US federal Court before Facebook
public offering. Yahoo told that Facebook had violated yahoo’s patents which
involve control of privacy, social networking, and covering advertising
etc. Patents of Yahoo covers social networking
basics ideas like customizing the website for user experience. In the same year
Facebook application center which is an online mobile store was rolled out.
Facebook’s Acquisition
On
February 19, 2014, Facebook announced that they are buying WhatsApp for $19
billion. Jan Koum and Brian Acton are the founder of WhatsApp and they became
billionaires once they sell the company to facebook. Now WhatsApp is one of the
most valuable apps in Europe, South America, Asia and it has more than 600
million active users today.
On
Wednesday, 2015, Facebook CEO Mark Zukerberg announced the birth of his child,
Mark Zukerberg and his wife pledged to give away 99% of his company shares that
is worth of USD 45 billion to charity.
Facebook App
The
Facebook users’ number got tremendously increased with the introduction of
Facebook App. As of January 2015, there were around 745 million people
accessing Facebook actively through mobile devices every day, including its
app.
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