Famous social network today like FACEBOOK,TWITTER,FRIENDSTER,MY SPACE, and many more.. It makes the people easy to connect to thier family,friends,long lost friends,and even lost people,and also official in the government... It became popular hit to teens..The popular Social network today for teens was the FACEBOOK, because it is the easy to use network today,As user you can play games,upload pictures and videos,so it beacame a popularity hit to the peole around the world....
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. 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 better. 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 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, but 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.
Type Private Founded Cambridge, Massachusetts[1](2004) Founder Headquarters Palo Alto, California, U.S., will be moved to Menlo Park, California, U.S. in June 2011 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.)[2]
Net income N/A Employees 2000+ (2010)[3] Website facebook.com IPv6 support www.v6.facebook.com Alexa rank 2 (July 2011)[4] Type of site Social networking service Advertising Banner ads, referral marketing, casual games Registration Required Users 750 million [5] (active in July 2011) Available in Multilingual Launched February 4, 2004 Current status Active
