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Facebook is a global social networking (social network service) website that is operated and privately owned (privately held company) by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The websites name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes (Chris Hughes (Facebook)) while he was a student at Harvard University. The websites membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 300 million active users worldwide.
Facebook has met with some controversy (Criticism of Facebook). It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria, China (Peoples Republic of China), Vietnam, and Iran. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service. Privacy (Criticism of Facebook#Privacy concerns) has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. Facebook settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property.
A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.
Company Name: Facebook, Inc.
Company Logo: Image:Facebook.svg
Company Type: Private (Private company)
Foundation: Cambridge (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Massachusetts, USA (February 4, 2004)
Birth Location: Palo Alto, California, Palo Alto, California,Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland (international headquarters for Europe, Africa, Middle East),Seoul, South Korea (international headquarters for Asia)
Key People: Mark Zuckerberg, Founder (Entrepreneur) and CEO (Chief executive officer),Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder,Sheryl Sandberg, COO (Chief operating officer) , Matt Cohler, VP of Product Management,Chris Hughes (Chris Hughes (Facebook)), Co-founder
Revenue: profit 300 million USD (United States dollar) (2008 est.)
Num Employees: 900+
Website: www.facebook.com/
Website Type: Social network service
Language: Afrikaans, Albanian (Albanian language), Arabic (Arabic language), Azeri (Azeri language), Basque (Basque language), Bengali (Bengali language), Bosnian (Bosnian language), Bulgarian (Bulgarian language), Catalan (Catalan language), Chinese (Chinese language) (simplified (Simplified Chinese character)), Chinese (Hong Kong (Hong Kong Cantonese)), Chinese (Taiwan (Taiwanese Mandarin)), Croatian (Croatian language), Czech (Czech language), Danish (Danish language), Dutch (Dutch language), English (UK (British English)), English (US (American English)), English (Pirate), Esperanto, Estonian (Estonian language), Faroese (Faroese language), Filipino (Filipino language), Finnish (Finnish language), French (French language) (Canada (Quebec French)), French (France (Languages of France)), Galician (Galician language), Georgian (Georgian language), German (German language), Greek (Greek language), Hebrew (Hebrew language), Hindi, Hungarian (Hungarian language), Icelandic (Icelandic language), Indonesian (Indonesian language), Irish (Irish language), Italian (Italian language), Japanese (Japanese language), Korean (Korean language), Latin, Latvian (Latvian language) Lithuanian (Lithuanian language), Macedonian (Macedonian language), Malay (Malay language), Malayalam (Malayalam language), Maltese (Maltese language), Nepali (Nepali language), Norwegian (Norwegian language) (Bokm�l), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Polish (Polish language), Portuguese (Portuguese language) (Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese)), Portuguese (Europe (European Portuguese)), Persian (Persian language), Punjabi (Punjabi language), Romanian (Romanian language), Russian (Russian language), Serbian (Serbian language), Slovak (Slovak language), Slovene (Slovene language), Spanish (Spanish language), Spanish (Castile (Castilian Spanish)), Swahili (Swahili language), Swedish (Swedish language), Tamil (Tamil language), Telugu (Telugu language), Thai (Thai language), Turkish (Turkish language), Ukrainian (Ukrainian language), Vietnamese (Vietnamese language), Welsh (Welsh language)
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Registration: Required
Launch Date: February 2004
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