Facebook

=History Of Facebook:=  Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, created Facemash on October 28, 2003. Zuckerberg was blogging about a girl and trying to think of something to do to get her off his mind. The following semester, Zuckerberg founded "The Facebook", originally located at thefacebook.com on February 4, 2004. Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard only, and within the first month, more than half the population at Harvard was registered on the service.Gradually most universities in Canada and the United States were able to use Facebook. Facebook incorporated in the summer of 2004 and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president. At that time, high school networks required an invitation to join. Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc and Microsoft. Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006 to everyone of ages 13 and older with a valid email adress In October 2008, Facebook announced that it was to set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

=__**Facebook Features:** __= ====__Newsfeed:__ Facebook offers many features and add-on's for your profile page. These include Newsfeed which users see a constantly updated list of their friends' Facebook activity. News Feed highlights information that includes profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays, among other updates. News Feed also shows conversations taking place between the walls of user's friends. An integral part of the News Feed interface is the Mini-Feed, a news stream on the user's profile page that shows updates about that user. Unlike in the News Feed, the user can delete events from the Mini-Feed after they appear so that they are no longer visible to profile visitors.====

__Wall:__ The wall on each users profile page is a space that allows friends to post messages for the user to see while displaying the time and date the message was written. One user's wall is visible to anyone with the ability to see his or her full profile, and different users' wall posts show up in an individual's News Feed. Many users use their friends' walls for leaving short, temporal notes. More private discourse is saved for Messages, which are sent to a person's inbox, and are visible only to the sender and recipient of the Message, much like email.

__Photos:__ One of facebook's most popular features is the photo feature where users can upload albums of photos, tag friends, and comment on photos. Facebook says that there are around 1.7 billion user photos and 2.2 billion friends tagged in user photos.

__Video:__ During the time that Facebook released its platform, it also released an application of its own for sharing videos on Facebook. Users can add their videos with the service by uploading video, adding video through Facebook Mobile, and using a webcam recording feature. Additionally, users can "tag" their friends in videos they add much like the way users can tag their friends in photos. Users also have the option of video messaging. The maximum video length is 20 minutes and the maximum size is 1 gb.

__Status Updates:__ Facebook offers a micro blogging feature called "status updates" this enables the user to update them when ever they want. The start of with the users name followed by "is". For example: Ronald Mcdonald is: going to mcdonalds etc.





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