SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILE Facebook URL http www facebook com FEBRUARY 4 2004 Facebook is founded PURPOSE Facebook is an online social networking service Users can communicate with each other share photos and videos and comment on what they are doing thinking or feeling SEPTEMBER 2006 Anyone who is at least 13 can join Facebook CURRENT CEO Mark Zuckerberg NUMBER OF USERS More than 1 55 billion FEBRUARY 2009 The Like button is added to Facebook MAY 18 2012 Facebook becomes a publicly traded company
Meet the Founder MARK ZUCKERBERG was born on May 14 1984 in White Plains New York He attended Harvard University in Massachusetts where Facebook began When Zuckerberg entered Harvard he already knew how to write several computer languages He had also created several computer games After creating Facebook Zuckerberg left Harvard to run the site full time He became one of the most important and influential business leaders of his generation Mark Zuckerberg
CHAPTER 1 What Is Facebook You're at a concert to see your favorite band The lights dim and the first notes hit the air You can hardly contain your excitement You want to share these feelings So you post about them on Facebook In seconds your Facebook friends are sharing your experience Facebook is the most popular social media site in the world It allows users to communicate with all their friends at once and in many ways Users share how they feel and what they are doing with written posts They also share photos videos articles and more The possibilities are endless Facebook has greatly influenced the way people communicate People use the site to connect with friends and make plans They also use Facebook to send event Facebook has a feature that notifies logged in users about events their friends are attending
invitations record their experiences and share important life events Facebook has become a standard way for people to stay in touch
