Want to know if your cute neighbor is single or committed?How does your grown-up niece look like?Where and how are your old buddies?Planning a reunion?Want to share your joys and sorrows with far-off family members and friends where communicating via telephone is an expensive thought?
If your answer to the above questions is yes ,then FACEBOOK.COM is the place for you to be.This social networking website launched in February 2004 has taken the cyber world by storm.As of March 2011, Facebook has more than 690 million active users.Registered users can create their personal profile,add other users as friends,exchange messages as 'chats',write on a personalized cyber space also known as one's 'wall' updates of which will be visible to your near and dear ones.....and many more !!!Founded by Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg,Eduardo Saverin,Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz,this social networking phenomenon has beaten the likes of Orkut,Myspace and Mocospace, fair and square.Its founder Mark Zuckerberg,27, is the youngest billionaire in the world with an estimated net worth of $13.5 billion.
But,it hasn't been all rosy for the founders as the social networking site has faced severe criticism on various issues like online privacy,child safety(its minimum age for registration is 13 against other sites whose minimum requirement is 18) and the hindrance faced in deleting the account if its contents are not deleted.Following these incidents, the company renewed the site's terms and conditions of use in 2008.Facebook has been sued several times.A film has also been made on it titled,"The Social Network" and has also won an Academy award.
Love it or hate it,lets 'face' it....you cannot ignore it.That's Facebook for you.So,what are you waiting for?
If your answer to the above questions is yes ,then FACEBOOK.COM is the place for you to be.This social networking website launched in February 2004 has taken the cyber world by storm.As of March 2011, Facebook has more than 690 million active users.Registered users can create their personal profile,add other users as friends,exchange messages as 'chats',write on a personalized cyber space also known as one's 'wall' updates of which will be visible to your near and dear ones.....and many more !!!Founded by Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg,Eduardo Saverin,Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz,this social networking phenomenon has beaten the likes of Orkut,Myspace and Mocospace, fair and square.Its founder Mark Zuckerberg,27, is the youngest billionaire in the world with an estimated net worth of $13.5 billion.
But,it hasn't been all rosy for the founders as the social networking site has faced severe criticism on various issues like online privacy,child safety(its minimum age for registration is 13 against other sites whose minimum requirement is 18) and the hindrance faced in deleting the account if its contents are not deleted.Following these incidents, the company renewed the site's terms and conditions of use in 2008.Facebook has been sued several times.A film has also been made on it titled,"The Social Network" and has also won an Academy award.
Love it or hate it,lets 'face' it....you cannot ignore it.That's Facebook for you.So,what are you waiting for?
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