Derived - YOU cyberspace surfers who often surfing from one site to the other site certainly will not forget to hang out or at least not just stop at one of the sites that the current skyrocketing again. What site is that? Yes, of course facebook site! Currently anyone who does not know him? May be people are literate and never surf definitely know this one site. Even those who used to just surf to just open the email now began to linger in front of the computer for mengulak-ngulik his Facebook account.
The data speak today there are about 175 million active profiles on Facebook and each profile site on average has 120 friends. Usage profiles duration of around 3 billion minutes / day and more than 18 million users update their profile every day [complete data]. Furthermore, according to research conducted by Student Monitor, Facebook included in the ranks of the object / thing that desired both by students / college students in the U.S. after the Ipod.
But did you know that Facebook was once just a site devoted exclusively to Harvard college kids alone? Then you know it turns out the site's creators have sued in court for alleged plagiarism of intellectual property rights and source code from another company? Additionally it true Facebook have a twin site?
So, for those who are interested in knowing the ins and outs of facebook Further more the following will be presented a bit of the story of its history.
Facebook falls into the category of social networking sites such as Friendster, MySpace, Multiply, Yuwie, etc. which provides a medium for users to exchange information and interact. Facebook was first launched on February 4, 2006 by a Harvard University student, Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook name itself inspired by Zuckerberg of a term in the U.S. across campus to get to know each other between the members of the academic community. Initially users just reserved for students on the campus of Harvard University. And then extended to a number of campuses in the Boston area (Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University, Tufts University) and other campuses such as Rochester, Stanford, NYU, Northwestern, and Ivy League. Following a number of other campuses in the U.S.. Finally, its be expanded again to a number of other campuses around the world. September 11, 2006, Facebook made an important step to allow access to all netizens who have a valid email address, however, with age restrictions.
History and Development
The origin of Facebook started when Mark Zuckerberg (while the second semester students of Harvard University) created a dating site for college peers. Zuckerberg is inspired from the site Hot or Not naming Facemash.com homemade site. This site method that displays two photos of couples (men and women), whereupon the two couples will be chosen by the members of the site where a couple of the most "hot". Well, to display photos of couples on this site, Zuckerberg tried by all means look for his photographs of the way around the door-to-door to ask foto.1
I was so reckless, Zuckerberg broke into the campus computer network access to obtain additional photographs. But the action is known to the college and their subsequent block Facemash.com site followed by action by the threat of sanctions against Zuckerberg will be fired from campus (although the threat is not so realized). For his actions, Zuckerberg defended himself by saying "The actions of the college who block sites facemash.com true reason, but unfortunately they do not realize the potential that could be a popularity booster tool for the campus itself". He continued "Sooner or later, there will also be others who make similar sites".
2004
Do not give up, the next semester, precisely on February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg created a new website called "The Facebook" are addressable URL: http://www.thefacebook.com. For the new site, Zuckerberg commented sarcasm: "I think the efforts that the college would like to create a medium of information exchange between the academic community that takes many years is ridiculous. With my website, I can do it only in a week's time alone ".2
When first launched "The Facebook" are limited in the Harvard campus alone. And it's amazing! Within a month of its users already covers more than half of Harvard students at that time. Furthermore, a number of colleagues Zuckerberg joined the team reinforces thefacebook.com. They are Eduardo Saverin (business analyst), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic designer), and Chris Hughes.
In March 2004, the thefacebook.com began to spread to several other campuses in the city of Boston, the U.S., and also to a number of renowned campuses such as Stanford, Columbia, Yale, and the Ivy League. Did not take long, the site has spread its use in almost all campuses in the U.S. and Canada. In June 2004, Zuckerberg, Moskovitz and McCollum move headquarters to Palo Alto, California. Here they also assisted also by Adam D'Angelo, and Sean Parker.
Mid-2004, thefacebook.com got its first investment from PayPal cofounder, Pieter Thiel.
2005
In May 2005, thefacebook.com received an injection of fresh funds joint venture with Accel Partners. Dated August 23, 2005, Thefacebook officially buy their domain names from Aboutface.com for USD 200,000, and since then a fragment of the phrase "the" is not used anymore so they name officially became facebook.com.
In 2005 also, facebook users have expanded to the high school students. Still in the same year, a number of universities in Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand also been able to enjoy the Facebook network.
2006
Early in 2006, Facebook was rumored to be acquired by a company at a price of USD 750 million, even offer jumped to USD 2 billion. But this news is not proven. In April 2006, Facebook received an injection of fresh funds U.S. $ 25 million investment from Peter Thiel, Greylock Partners, and Meritech Capital Partners. In May of the same year Facebook began reaching Asia through the Indian subcontinent. In mid-year, gilliran Israel and Germany. Finally on 11 September 2006, Facebook changed the status of the registration to be "free to join" for all owners of valid email addresses worldwide.
2007
In September 2007, Microsoft announced it had purchased a 1.6% stake in Facebook valued at USD 15 billion. In taking this stock also included an agreement that Microsoft has the right to place their ads on Facebook. Seeing this step a number of other giant players such as Google, Viacom, Friendster also expressed their interest to invest in Facebook. Previously in 2006, Yahoo! has been offering its acquisition offer for $ 1 billion. November 2007, a Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing invested worth USD 60 million in Facebook.
2008
In August 2008, Business Week magazine reported a number of other parties have joined embed stake in Facebook that Facebook's value is estimated to range between USD 3.75 billion to USD 5 billion
Situation Site
Facebook users can now be free to join the networks organized by city, location of work, school and country. These networks will then connect its members. Fellow users can connect with friends and browse profiles to see each other personally.
The main Facebook site to get revenue from ads attached to it. The users are free to create a profile of each is in it can contain pictures and other personal info info. Moreover, it can also send messages, join a group or more. By default, Facebook set user profiles can only be accessed by users who have befriended fellow. However, this setting can be changed later if desired.
Microsoft is Facebook's exclusive partner in displaying banner ads. This is why Facebook just Menayang advertisements contained in the Microsoft network. According to comScore (website internet marketing researcher) is now Facebook collects as much user data collected by Google and Microsoft.
In this view, Facebook often compared to MySpace and Friendster. But the main difference between them is that MySpace and Friendster allow users to decorate their profile appearance with HTML and CSS features, while Facebook only allows plain text feature so that all the user profile view looks uniform.
Features
Facebook has a number of features interaction among users that include feature 'Wall / Wall', a space where fellow users send messages open, 'Poke / Flick', a means to peck each other virtually, 'Photos / Pictures' space to install photograph, and the 'Status' which displays the condition / current idea user. From July 2007, Facebook allows users to send a variety of attachments (link, application, etc.) directly to Wall / Wall, where previously only the text are allowed.
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Over time, Facebook added some new features to its website. In September 2006, Facebook announced the launch of News Feed / News Feed that contains a series of glimpses of information each user. At first, this feature is open and can be seen by anyone. But after receiving complaints from some users, Facebook changed the setting of this feature so that users can now set which can be displayed in the News Feed / News Feed circuit and which are not.
Feature Notes / Notes added on August 22, 2006. In this feature the user can import his writings on other blogs (Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger, etc.) to be shown on Facebook. April 7, 2008, Facebook launched one of the favorite features of the 'Chat / Chat', where users can send each other private messages directly and in real time.
Features (Gifts / Gift) begins on February 8, 2007. This feature is a feature to send each other gifts. 'Gift' can be purchased for $ 1 and add a personal message. Dated May 14, 2007, Facebook introduced the 'Marketplace' which allows users to advertise for free. Features free advertising is made to compete with similar features introduced by Craiglist.
July 2008, Facebook smoothing look of the site so that each category (wall, info, photos, etc.) have separate tabs. Began in March 2009, Facebook spruce up the look "Home / Home".
Platform
On May 24, 2007, Facebook promoting Facebook Platform. It is a means for software developers to create applications that can be used on Facebook. The move was immediately welcomed by the developers of the software so until March 25, 2009, there were 52,000 applications to number as many as 660,000 party developers.
Negative developmentsIn December 2008, the High Court of Australia decided to use Facebook user data as a basis for determining a court judgment.
University of New Mexico in October 2005 blocked access to Facebook in the network is not a pretext Facebook site supporting campus sites. Provincial Government of Ontario, Canada also blocked access to Facebook on the grounds that similar.
Some countries is still banned Facebook access to its citizens. The Syrian government has banned access to Facebook on the grounds of this site will be used by Israel to expand its influence. The Iranian government also blocked Facebook for fear of media will be used to mobilize opposition network.
On February 5, 2008, a Moroccan citizen, Fouad Mourtada, was arrested by local police for making a fake profile in the name of Prince Moulay Rachid who is a member of the Moroccan royal family.
A number of users who want to get out of the Facebook network complain of difficulty in removing the profile. This happens because before Facebook only allows users to simply deactivated only while the personal data remains stored in the Facebook server. This policy has been criticized by users who want to completely wipe all its data. Respond, the Facebook then changed the policy on February 29, 2008 so since then users who want to quit can request their personal data to be removed completely from the Facebook network.
In 2004, ConnectU, a site similar to Facebook, making a lawsuit against Zuckerberg for allegedly plagiarizing creative ideas and source code. The founders of ConnectU (Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss) which is Zuckerberg's classmate at Harvard assume that the basic concept of Facebook was their idea and the only person who hired Zuckerberg to design it.
A Canadian citizen, Adam Guerbuez, never used the Facebook site to advertise penis enlargement product and use of marijuana. Guerbuez Facebook party then sued in local court and won the lawsuit.
On July 24, 2008, Grant Raphael, a British citizen was dragged to court on charges of making fake profiles blasphemous contents former business partner, Matthew Firsht, as a homosexual.
Famous Italian footballer Alessandro Del Piero sued Facebook on February 9, 2009 due to her fake profile that includes contains various links to Nazi propaganda sites. Del Piero then stated that he was not a Nazi supporter and did not ever have any account on Facebook.
Current Conditions
Apart from the various controversies over no denying that Facebook fever is endemic throughout the world. So it depends on your own now use Facebook for what purpose taking into account the risks that accompany it.
Whatever it is, now, according to comScore Facebook is the leading social networking site in the world beat MySpace and according to Alexa global ranking is ranked fifth, second only to Google, Yahoo, Youtube and Live. While the awards ever received was "Top 100 Classic Websites" of 2007 from PC Magazine and the "People's Voice Award" from the Webby Awards in 2008.
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