Facebook is an American for-profit corporation and an most popular online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. Facebook is a social networking website , founded in 2004, Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what's going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.
In the beggining Facebook was only a website called " the facebook.com " now Facebook is the largest social network on the web, behind only MySpace in terms of traffic. Now Facebook is not only a website but a popular social networking plateform in form of website , in form of application and since it is known as facebook instead of a website " thefacebook.com " . Currently facebook is also own other social networks , those social networks are messenger , Intagram and whatsapp.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on 14 May 1984 in white plains , New York . Home town of Mark Zuckerberg is Dobbs Ferry , U.S. , Currently lives in Palo Alto , California , U.S. Mark Zuckerberg Completed his High School study at Ardsley High School, Zuckerberg . While studying in high school he excelled in classes , Later Zuckerberg transferred to the exclusive private school Phillips Exeter Academy, in New Hampshire. Here he won many prizes in science and classical studie .He began using computers and writing software in middle school. First he learned BASIC Programming to his father in 1990 and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Currently he isZuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Currently he is an American computer programmer and Internet entreprener , He was co-founder of Facebook but currently operates facebook as its chairman and chief executive officer , he also own social networks , whatsapp , messenger and instagram . In 2016 he the fifth richest person around the world .
While Mark Zuckerberg was studying in the college a site was built by the one of the roommate of Mark Zckerberg only for fun . The site operated by rommate only for a weekend an site was shut down on Monday morning.Reason behind the shutting down of site is , popularity of thay site was overwhelmed .
On the bases of their knowledge of computer Programming Mark Zuckerberg started writing code for a his own new Website on january 2004, Finally on 4 February 2004 a new site which was known as "Thefacebook" was launched by Mark Zuckerberg . Zuckerberg's new Website was " the facebook.com ". He origins of Facebook have been in dispute since the very week a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg launched the site as a Harvard sophomore on February 4, 2004. Then called "thefacebook.com," the site was an instant hit. Now, six years later, the site has become one of the biggest web sites in the world, visited by 400 million people a month.
On 10 February 2004 , Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product. The three complained to The Harvard Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation in response.
Following the official launch of the Facebook social media platform, the three filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg that resulted in a settlement.The agreed settlement was for 1.2 million Facebook shares that were worth US$300 million at Facebook's IPO.Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year in order to complete his project.And he succeed in developing a popular social network which is known as Facebook and using by people around the world .
On 2003 , when Mark Zuckerberg was studying on Harvard University as second year student , a website was launched by the roommate of Mark Zuckerberg , for this website Mark Zuckerberg wrote a program on the basis of their computer programming knowledge . This website is known as the " Facemash " . On this website some pictures were uploaded by them. The Facemash was collected 450 users and 22000 photo views only on its starting four hours . But this website runned only for a weekend and shut down by the administrator's of Harvard .
After some day some social study tools of an art history final exam uploaded by Zuckerberg on Facemash . He uploaded all art images to a website, each of which was featured with a corresponding comments section , then he shared the site with his classmates, and people started sharing notes.
On January 2004 Zuckerberg started the writing a program for his new website . The writing of program completedby him on February 2004 . Finally on 4 February 2004 Zuckerberg launched a website which is known as " thefacebook " . The url of thefacebook was thefacebook.com . Six days after the site launched, Harvard seniors Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com.
On the first month of launching of website , only the students of Harvard college were the member of thefacebook . Later more person outside from Harvard college joined thefacebook which included Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes . These helped the Zuckerberg for promoting his website. Till March 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and is associates were able to expand TheFacebook to the universities of Columbia, Stanford, and And then expanded to all Ivy League colleges, Boston University, New York University, MIT, and gradually most universities in the United States and Canada.
In mid-2004, Zuckerberg announced the entrepreneur Sean Parker who was an informal advisor as the president of Thefacebook .The domain name facebook.com was purchased by Zuckerberg on 2005 . Then membership of facebook was not limited they expanded the membership for facebook.com to several companues which included Microsoft , Apple etc.