biography of facebook

Facebook was created as an online version of the "facebooks" of American universities. The "facebooks" are publications that universities at the beginning of the academic year, containing the pictures and names of all students and aimed to help students to know each other. Facebook took this idea to the Internet, first for American students and opened its doors to anyone that has an email account.

Facebook was founded in 2004 as a hobby of Mark Zuckerberg, at that time Harvard student, and as a service to the students of the university.

In its first month of operation the subscription Facebook had more than half of Harvard students, and then expanded to universities MIT, Boston University and Boston College and more presitigiosas U.S. institutions.

A year later, Facebook had more than one million users, an office in Palo Alto, California and received financial support from Peter Thiel first (co-founder of Pay-Pal and angel investor) (500 000 U $ D) and after the Accel Partners ($ 12.7 million). That same year he joined, to students in over 25,000 schools and two thousand universities in the United States and abroad, making a total of 11 million users.

In 2006, Facebook introjudo more foreign universities and developing new services to its platform, such as Facebook Notes (a blogging tool with tagging, images and other utilities) or import blogging services like Xanga, LiveJournal or Blogger, and by 2007 Facebook Marketplace, which competes with Craigslist. Also implemented trade agreements with iTunes and received an additional capital investment of $ 25 million

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