facebook fame

Everyone knows the word “Facebook”. Do you know that every people want at least 15 seconds of fame? It is why “Facebook”, a social networking site, became famous to everybody. A person will post some short messages on a comment box as a status, and will wait for other to like their messages. Photos are also uploaded on their own account and wait for their friends to see the pictures and liked it. These are just some proofs that most people, if not all, want at least 15 seconds of fame. Do you wonder how Facebook started and who founded it? Here’s a brief history of Facebook.

The popular social networking site Facebook began at Harvard as an online version of a print compendium listing the faces of freshmen, their majors and hometowns. Founded by a 19-year old Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg, who is a sophomore at that time, along with Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin, the site launched from a Harvard dorm room as thefacebook.com on Feb. 4, 2004.

With Zuckerberg serving as CEO, thefacebook.com moved its operations to Palo Alto in June 2004 and the next month registered as a corporation with the state of Delaware. The name officially changed to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook users expanded to more than 800 colleges as well as high schools. The new company had 5.5 million users by December 2005.

On October 1, 2005, Facebook expanded to twenty-one universities in the United Kingdom, the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) system in Mexico (around thirty campuses throughout the country at the time), the University of Puerto Rico and Interamerican University of Puerto Rico network in Puerto Rico, and the University of the Virgin Islands network in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step. At that time, high school networks required an invitation to join. Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsof On December 11, 2005, universities in Australia and New Zealand were added to the Facebook network, bringing its size to 2,000+ colleges and 25,000 + high schools throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.

From its earliest days, investors befriended Facebook. Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, supported the startup with $500,000 in summer 2004, followed next by Accel Partners contributing $12.7 million in venture capital in the spring of 2005. Facebook raised $27.5 million in April 2006 from Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and others. The Facebook Mobile feature launched in April 2006.

Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006 to everyone ages 13 and older with a valid e-mail address. In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. In 2010, Facebook began to invite users to become beta testers after passing a question-and-answer-based selection process, and a set of Facebook Engineering Puzzles where users would solve computational problems which gave them an opportunity to be hired by Facebook.

As of February 2011, Facebook had become the largest online photo host, being cited by Facebook application and online photo aggregator Pixable as expecting to have 100 billion photos by summer 2011. As of October 2011, over 350 million users accessed Facebook through their mobile phones, accounting for 33% of all Facebook traffic.

Whatever uses Facebook may give to anyone, may I just remind to use social networking sites wisely and responsibly.