Facebook Histosry

History of facebook.

facebook-logo on February 4, 2548 Mark Zuckerburg has launched a web site, facebook, a social network type that it is open only for students of Harvard University. And this is coming up in the blink of an eye. I just released two weeks. Half of the students at Harvard University. It is very overwhelming to access facebook. And upon hearing this news. Other universities in the Boston area began demanding. And I would like to use facebook as well. Mark was invited to his name, Christ Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz to help build a facebook and a period of four months after the facebook so add another 30 years and a member of the University

 

The initial idea for a facebook comes from the old school mark in the high school level. At Phillips Exeter Academy and Manchester City at this school. The book is a book called The Exeter Face Book, which will forward it to other students about it in class, the face book, this really is only one book. Until one day. Mark has changed, and put it into the world of the Internet.

When this is successful, both Dustin and Mark Hughes moved out to Palo Alto in the summer and go rent the apartment of one of the two weeks. Mark had to talk to Shawn Parker (Sean Parker), one of the co-founder of Napster, then no longer. Parker moved into working with Mark in the apartment. The Parker has introduced to investors first, that is, Peter T's (Peter Thiel), one of the co-founder of Paypal and CEO of The Founders Fund by Peter invested in facebook is the amount of U.S. $ 500,000.

With millions of members. Many companies are interested in friendster facebook by facebook trying to buy a $ 10 million in the middle of the year. Founded in 2548, but facebook refuses to offer. And received additional funding from Accel Partners is a U.S. $ 12.4 million in the value of facebook assessment is approximately $ 100 million.

facebook is still growing. Until September last year. Fri The school opened in 2549 in high school. To use it. And in later facebook has added new functionality. By its members. I have pictures to share. This function, which receive the overwhelming popularity. Spring cleaning in November facebook get money from the additional investment by Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital, along with investors Accel Partners and Peter is the first method is the amount to 25 million U.S. dollars. The total value at the time was 525 million dollars after that facebook is open to businesses or companies to be able to access facebook and create a network between them, which, in turn, business organizations, more than 20,000 of them came into use. And finally, in the year. Fri 2550 facebook was open to anyone with an email. Was used. This is the era of the common man. Whether anyone can gain access to facebook, you can just e-mail only.

In the summer of 2550 in an attempt to buy Yahoo, the facebook, with a limit of 1 billion U.S. dollars. It was reported that Mark has made an oral agreement to sell that will allow facebook to Yahoo and just a few days later, Yahoo's stock has climbed ever higher. This offer has been negotiated to just U.S. $ 800 million. Mark it rejected the proposal immediately after the next puff and Yahoo have tried to offer up to U.S. $ 1 billion mark again, this time Yahoo rejected immediately and get a bad reputation in a way that Doing business as a child and suddenly this is not the first time that Mark refused its offer to acquire. I had to try Co., Viacom had offered U.S. $ 750 million credit line with facebook. And rejected it in March 2550.

Another trend is good news for facebook that has been heavily disputed Social Network that ConnectU founders of ConnectU against Mark's classmates. Zach Kerr, PA at Harvard. Mark has been accused of stealing the source code for facebook to have his case was subject to a court. And now has to successfully resolve disputes.

Although these disputes arise, it is also driving growth in the next facebook. In the fall of 2551 facebook has joined the program, more than 1 million new people per week. The average stay per 200,000 people in the aggregate that facebook has more than 50 million people, facebook, with visitors averaging at 40,000 million page views per month from the first day that facebook is a social network of the university students until Today, members of the facebook 11% older than 35 years and older than 30 years, came up for facebook a lot more than this, facebook is still tremendous growth in overseas markets, with 15% of the people. in Canada. The report said. The average number of members who use facebook Nagi is already at 19 minutes per day per person on facebook can be considered as a site that has been most active as 6 of the United States and the sites where people upload pictures, the highest number. four thousand, one thousand millions of images.

Number of these statistics. Microsoft has invested in facebook is the amount of U.S. $ 240 million. Exchange for a share of 1.6% in the month of October 2551 the total value of more than 15,000 million baht facebook and facebook is a high-value Internet companies are among the top 5 Internet companies in the United States. With annual revenues of just U.S. $ 150 million. Many have described it. Microsoft's decision was only made in order to beat a competitor to Google, which bought the same time, facebook.

Today, Facebook has started to modify the page using the Timeline is the talk of the times in this episode.