FACEBOOK

Facebook is an American online social media and social networking servicebased in Menlo Park, California. The Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, all along with fellow Harvard Collegestudents and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

The founders had at the start partial the website's association to Harvard students; however, anon they prolonged it to higher edification institutions in the Boston area, the Ivy League schools, and Stanford University. Facebook slowly but surely other prove for students at countless other universities, and finally to far above the ground drill students as well. Since 2006, everybody who claims to be at slightest 13 being aged has been permitted to be converted into a registered client of Facebook, even if variations subsist in the least era requirement, depending on applicable citizen laws.

The Facebook Christian name comes from the face bookdirectories a lot agreed to United States academia students. The set apprehended its initial open offering (IPO) in February 2012, and began selling stockto the free three months later, realization an first peak market capitalization of $104 billion, a new record. Facebook makes generally of its revenue from advertisements which act onscreen.

Facebook may be accessed by a outsized reach of policy with Internetconnectivity, such as desktop, laptopand tablet computers, and smartphones. After registering to depletion the site, users be able to set up a personalized profile indicating their name, occupation, schools attended and subsequently on. Users preserve add together other users as "friends", chat messages, declare class updates, let somebody in on photos, videos and links, exploit various software applications ("apps"), and obtain notifications of activity. Additionally, users may bond common-interest consumer groups orderly by workplace, school, hobbies or other topics, and classify their contacts into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". Additionally, users preserve carp about or bar nasty people.

Facebook has new than 2 billion monthly committed users as of June 2017. Its popularity has led to prominent media coverage for the company, together with momentous examination over privacy and the psychological sound effects it has on users. In topical years, the party has faced intense strain over the sum of fake news, hate speech and violence prevalent on its services, every one of of which it is attempting to counteract.