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history of facebook&

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What is facebook?

Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect friends, family, and

business associates

Facebook was launched in February 2004.

His creator is Mark Zuckerberg. He was studying in Harvard

The register was initially restricted to students of Harvard College.

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The first month, morethan half the Harvard’s studentwas registered on the service

Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew

McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes joined Zuckerberg to help promote

the website. They was buddy of the university.

In 2005 Facebook was already very famous

So the next step was to launch a high-school version

Facebook was opened on September 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older

Total active users have been growing each year

Facebook is the second most accessed website in the US

Facebook features

• User profile• Privacy settings• Voice Calls• Facebook Messages• Like button• Share button

Facebook’s groups

Are you interested in “The Simpsons”? You can create a The Simpsons group to speaking of this show with more fans.

Like gardening? Create a Facebook group for gardening advice.

Fan Page for business

The companies create a fan page. Facebook fan page is one of the best ways to communicate with your clients and show friendly attitude

This tool make possible to get a great number of new customers

Other famous features

• Social gamesApalabrados,  FarmVille, Texas HoldEm Poker

Other famous features

• EventsFacebook events are a great way to communicate upcoming events or occasions, they can reach thousands of people in a short timeit is very used for disco, birthday...

The future of facebook isn't clear. I personally think that the facebook's time is finishing.

The people don't use too time as the initially. There is less interest for facebook and more interest for Twitter, Instagram,

Linkedin...

FinallyFacebook, the film. 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4

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