Facebook

Facebook is a social networking site that can become very addicting to young students. I don’t know what it is about it but everyone falls in love with it. Facebook is a good way of contacting your friends and family that you don’t see very often. It lets you catch up on things see how people are doing.

Facebook lets you put up pictures of anything, use videos or make videos, post what you’re doing, make a profile, talk to people and even play games. There are many things that they designed for you to keep you entertained because they want everyone to use Facebook.

Facebook first launched in February 2004, and is operated and privately owned by Facebook. As of July, 2011 Facebook had over 800 million active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The Web site'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 eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not, and "used photos compiled from the online Facebook’s of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person". To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied the houses' private dormitory ID images. Harvard at that time did not have a student "Facebook" (a directory with photos and basic information). Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online. The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy, and faced expulsion. Ultimately, however, the charges were dropped.  Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of an art history final, by uploading 500 Augustan images to a Web site, with one image per page along with a comment section.  He opened the site up to his classmates, and people started sharing their notes. This is what launched their ideas toward Facbook.