05-18-2011, 07:51 AM
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Brief Intro of Facebook
Created and launched in February 2004 by Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes,Brief Intro of Facebook
the site began as a network strictly for Harvard University.
A handful of other students sued Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their idea; the case took years to work through the courts.
Facebook was not Zuckerberg's first attempt to aggregate student information. In a scene reminiscent of War Games, Zuckerberg had earlier hacked into the university's computers.
Facebook.com. Initially launched by undergraduates at Harvard University for college students, the site was soon expanded to include alumni in the corporate world as well as high school students.
Membership was opened to anyone with a valid e-mail address in 2006. Facebook seeks to emulate real-life connections by structuring networks around schools,
corporations, and geographic regions. A user's full profile information is available to other users who are somehow connected.
The resulting "social graph" is what makes Facebook a billion-dollar idea; the company has turned down acquisition offers worth at least $800 million.
Facebook is the most popular social networking site in several English-speaking countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
In regional Internet markets, Facebook penetration is highest in North America (69 percent), followed by Middle East-Africa (67 percent), Latin America (58 percent), Europe (57 percent), and Asia-Pacific (17 percent)
It was banned in many countries of the world on the basis of allowed content judged as anti-Islamic and containing religious discrimination.
The privacy of Facebook users has also been an issue, and the safety of user accounts has been compromised several times.
U.S. cartoonist Molly Norris of Seattle, Washington, created the artwork in reaction to Internet death threats that had been made against cartoonists Trey Parker and Matt Stone for depicting Muhammad in an episode of South Park.
Norris said that if people draw pictures of Muhammad, Islamic terrorists would not be able to murder them all, and threats to do so would become unrealistic. Within a week, Norris' idea became popular on Facebook, was supported by numerous bloggers, and generated coverage on the blog websites of major U.S. newspapers.
In response to the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day controversy and the ban of the website in Pakistan,an Islamic version of the website was created, called Millat Facebook.
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