Saturday, May 12, 2012

What is Facebook?

       Developed in 2004 by then Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg,
Facebook is a social networking site used by more than 800 million active users
in every country on the planet, so far in 70 languages. The site’s minimum age is
13, but teens represent only a minority population on Facebook. It’s used by a
lot of adults, certainly including parents. But not just individuals – Facebook’s
also used by businesses, organizations and governments all over the world, to
send marketing messages, seek charitable funding and communicate with
customers and constituents.
Facebook is certainly not the only social networking site. There are thousands of
them, based all over the world, some general-interest social sites for people in a
specific country and some for specific interest groups in many categories –
students, sports fans, film aficionados, cooks, travelers, gamers, music lovers,
etc. Some social sites are designed for use on computers, some just for mobile
phones. Facebook is accessed by both.

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