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“ Ion Luca Caragiale” National

College
Ploiesti

A Social Network :

Coordinating teacher,
Student ,
Ioana Constantin
Barbu Ruxandra
12th I Grade
Contents

Precis

Introduction

History

Company

Wesite

Reception

Facebook in media

Why Facebook Is Even Bigger than You Think


Precis

With all the buzz around social networks , I’ve decided to see
how this phenomen has evolvd and the impact it had on
people’s life.And after some searches on the internet I’ve
discovered that the most popular social network it is called
“Facebook “ , and like much of the internet, this network is a
great innovation .
It offers you an opportunity to interact with an
extraordinarily expansive universe of new people. You can
sculpt your on-line identity and learn more about how the
Internet and its various programs work to create new
relationships and communities.Moreover , I've long been
interested in how technology can persuade people and how
it can change people's attitudes and behaviors. Facebook
has emerged as, I think, as the most effective persuasive
technology ever.There are about 10,000 students
(professionals and young professionals not yet included) who
are joining into Facebook every day. This is regardless of the
age, race and country.
What surprised me was that even if a community like
Facebook serves numerous advantages (allows users search
for new and old friends , makes it easir to join gropus having
similar likes and dislikes etc ) , it also proves to have certain
disadvantages as well ( overcrowding , stalking ) .
Introduction

Facebook is a social network service and website launched in February 2004, operated
and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600
million active users. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and
exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile.
Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace,
school, or college, or other characteristics. The name of the service stems from the
colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by
university administrations in the USA to help students get to know each other better.
Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be at least 13 years old to become a
registered user of the website.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow
computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
The website'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, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over.

A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social network
service by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace. Entertainment Weekly
put it on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes,
remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of
Scrabulous before Facebook?" Quantcast estimates Facebook has 135.1 million monthly
unique U.S. visitors in October 2010. According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an
estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account.
History

In early 2003, Adam D'Angelo, then a Caltech student who had been Mark
Zuckerberg's best friend in high school, had developed the experimental, rudimentary
social networking website Buddy Zoo, that was used by hundreds of thousands of people
before D'Angelo shut it down. That summer, Zuckerberg and friends who were also
computer science students worked coding for the summer in Boston and discussed the
implication of D'Angelo's website's success with regard to the future of social networking
on the Internet.In the fall, Zuckerberg, returning for his sophomore year at Harvard,
wrote CourseMatch, a briefly popular site that helped Harvard students figure out what
courses their friends were taking; and then, on October 28, 2003, he wrote Facemash, a
site that, according to the Harvard Crimson, represented a Harvard University version of
Hot or Not.

That night, Zuckerberg made the following blog entries:


“I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not even 10 p.m. and it's a Tuesday
night? What? The Kirkland [dorm] facebook is open on my desktop and some of these
people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces
next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.“
—9:48 pm

“Yea, it's on. I'm not exactly sure how the farm animals are going to fit into this whole
thing (you can't really ever be sure with farm animals...), but I like the idea of comparing
two people together.”
—11:09 pm

“Let the hacking begin.”


—12:58 am

Harvard at that time did not have a student directory with photos, and basic information
and the initial site generated 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours
online.[6] That the initial site mirrored people’s physical community—with their real
identities—represented the key aspects of what later became Facebook.
"Perhaps Harvard will squelch it for legal reasons without realizing its value as a venture
that could possibly be expanded to other schools (maybe even ones with good-looking
people...)," Zuckerberg wrote in his personal blog. "But one thing is certain, and it’s that
I’m a jerk for making this site. Oh well. Someone had to do it eventually..."

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, but ultimately the charges were dropped.

In January 2004, the following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new
website. He was inspired, he said, by an editorial in The Harvard Crimson about the
Facemash incident. "It is clear that the technology needed to create a centralized Website
is readily available," the paper observed. "The benefits are many."
On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at
thefacebook.com. "Everyone’s been talking a lot about a universal face book within
Harvard," Zuckerberg told The Harvard Crimson. "I think it’s kind of silly that it would
take the University a couple of years to get around to it. I can do it better than they can,
and I can do it in a week."
“When Mark finished the site, he told a couple of friends. And then one of them
suggested putting it on the Kirkland House online mailing list, which was...three hundred
people," according to roommate Dustin Moskovitz. "And, once they did that, several
dozen people joined, and then they were telling people at the other houses. By the end of
the night, we were...actively watching the registration process. Within twenty-four hours,
we had somewhere between twelve hundred and fifteen hundred registrants."

Just six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, 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.
Zuckerberg used his site, TheFacebook.com, to look up members of the site who
identified themselves as members of the Crimson. Then he examined a log of failed
logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into
TheFacebook.com. In the cases in which they had entered failed logins, Mark tried to use
them to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts. He successfully accessed
two of them. The three later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, later settling.

Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first
month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the
service. Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew
McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote
the website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.
This expansion continued when it opened to all Ivy League and Boston area schools, and
gradually most universities in Canada and the United States. Facebook incorporated in
the summer of 2004 and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising
Zuckerberg, became the company's president.

In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California.

On October 1 2005, Facebook expanded to twenty-one universities in the United


Kingdom, the entire Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
(ITESM) system in Mexico, the entire University of Puerto Rico network in Puerto Rico,
and the whole University of the Virgin Islands network in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called
the next logical step. At that time, high school networks required an invitation to join.
Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies,
including Apple Inc. and Microsoft.On December 11, 2005, universities in Australia and
New Zealand were added to the Facebook network, bringing its size to 2,000+ colleges
and 25,000 + high schools throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United
Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. Facebook was then opened on September
26, 2006, to everyone of ages 13 and older with a valid e-mail address..

On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of
Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.
[ Microsoft's purchase included rights to place international ads on Facebook.
In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters
in Dublin, Ireland. In September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash flow
positive for the first time. In November 2010, based on SecondMarket Inc., an exchange
for shares of privately held companies, Facebook's value was $41 billion (slightly
surpassing eBay's) and it became the third-largest US web company after Google and
Amazon.

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