Facebook is a global social networking website that owned by Facebook, Inc. Facebook is one of most largest social network on the web, after MySpace and friendster. Users can add and chat with their friend that play facebook too.They can search their old friend and can be a fan of someone in facebook. They also can update their status messages to notify friends about themselves. This kind of program helps us to find more friends in the world and can inform friends out there about ourselves.Facebook also have many features, like facebook notes and the ability to add images in your(100) blog and comments. Facebook earns money from the advertising reveune.



History of Facebook

Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg who was a former-Harvard student. Facebook was the development of facemash. He created facemash on October 28, 2003 with help of his friends and roommates, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz. Facemash used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the “hotter” person. When it is initially started, it was forwarded to Hazard School admin and quickly shut down facemash. Zuckerberg began writing code for a newwebstie in January 2004. Then Zuckerberg created “The Facebook” in February 2004.
In 2005, he renamed “The Facebook” to “Facebook” and the domain facebook.com was purchased for a reported $200,000. In September 2005, they launched the High School version of(200) Facebook.

A year after they launched The High School version of Facebook, Facebook was opened to public for anyone who is 13 or older. In Agustus 2007, the code that normally creates the pages for facebook showed instead of the content, leaving many to wonder if their data on facebook is even safe.In October 2008, facebook annonced that it was to set up its internasional headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. In Februari 2009, facebook changed their privacy policy. Its caused an up roar along the way. Zuckerberg tried defend facebook from policy change.

When he defended facebook, EPIC and FTC filed a claim against facebook. To finished the problem, they switched back to their old policies, although(300) they are in the middle of rewriting them again. A 1.6% stake in Facebook had been sold to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million in October 24th 2007. The story of facebook is a mixture between trouble and success. Facebook has over 175 million active users worldwide currently and is growing every day.
So? What the difference between facebook and friendster??? Facebook has a marketplace function, which allow its users to showcase the items that they want to sell, but Friendster allows more creativity on user’s profile pages.