FaceMash was short-lived but popular, leading Zuckerberg to consider the value of creating a campus-wide social network. Over the course of his sophomore year, Zuckerberg built what would become Facebook.
When it launched on February 4, he and his roommates were glued to their screens, watching as an estimated 1,, of their fellow students signed up for their site within its first 24 hours of existence.
From there, Facebook expanded rapidly, moving to other Boston-area schools and the rest of the Ivy League that spring. From there, Facebook spread across the world, becoming not only an incredibly valuable company but also one of the most important institutions of the early 21st century.
The go-to social media site for a generation of internet users and one which was readily adopted by older users as it transformed from exclusive to universal , Facebook was one of the major forces that brought the internet into the highly-participatory phase full of user-generated content sometimes referred to as "Web 2.
In addition to allowing misinformation and fake accounts to proliferate, Facebook has drawn criticism both for selling its users' data and for failing to adequately protect it. Nonetheless, Facebook continues to dominate the social media market, generating by far the most ad revenue and maintaining over half of the total market share.
But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! A lifelong civil rights activist, Parks' name has become synonymous with her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in , a defining Six days later, he got into trouble again when Harvard seniors Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra accused him of stealing their ideas for an intended social networking website called HarvardConnection.
The claimants later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, however, the matter was eventually settled out of court. Membership to the website was at first restricted to Harvard students. Over time, Zuckerberg enlisted a few of his fellow students to help grow the website.
Eduardo Saverin, for example, worked on the business end while Dustin Moskovitz was brought on as a programmer. Andrew McCollum served as the site's graphic artist and Chris Hughes became the de facto spokesperson. Together the team expanded the site to additional universities and colleges. In , Napster founder and angel investor Sean Parker became the company's president. The company changed the site's name from TheFacebook to just Facebook after purchasing the domain name facebook. In September of , Facebook announced that anyone who was at least 13 years old and had a valid email address could join.
By , it had become the world's most used social networking service, according to a report by the analytics site Compete. While Zuckerberg's antics and the site's profits eventually led to him becoming the world's youngest multi-billionaire, he's done his part to spread the wealth around.
In , he signed a pledge, along with other wealthy businessmen, to donate at least half of his wealth to charity. Kirkpatrick, David. Simon and Schuster, Facebook proved extremely popular with Harvard students when it was first launched, so much so that the site was soon also made available to students at Stanford, Yale and Columbia before expanding to numerous other colleges.
By September 26 , anyone in the world could make themselves a Facebook account, as long as they were at least 13 years old and had a valid email address.
As the number of people becoming members of Facebook grew, so did the number of people working for the company. In , Napster co-founder Sean Parker was named president of Facebook.
Having been chief financial officer and business manager for Facebook since its conception, Saverin was reportedly cut from Facebook by Zuckerberg in and had his shares in the company diluted. Lately, Facebook has become embroiled in controversy concerning the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and Brexit. According to their findings, after Zuckerberg and Hughes, the next few accounts were as follows:.
While we have already touched on some of the early lawsuits against the company, Facebook has also taken fire for a few other, allegedly suspect, activities. One major bone of contention surrounding Facebook is its apparent dissemination of "fake news". Coming to the attention of journalists during the U. According to these claims, these ads both contributed to and influenced the outcome of the elections. Whether you personally believe this or not, the accusations continue to damage public attitude towards the company.
We need to be careful not to discourage sharing of opinions or to mistakenly restrict accurate content. However, Facebook is still mired in claims that it allows fake news and dangerous propaganda to be disseminated on its site. More recently, Facebook, and Zuckerberg in particular, have been accused of doing nothing to reign in dangerous hate speech on the site, and even of, allegedly, encouraging the dissemination of such speech through company policy.
In June , Facebook began shedding advertisers, who claimed they no longer wanted their ads to appear next to posts from hate groups. Due to the nature of Facebook's business model, it is also regularly accused of questionable data harvesting scandals. One of the most notable occurred in , when they were engulfed in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Allegedly, the data firm was improperly using personal data of Facebook users to create psychological profiles of them for later political use. This data, so the claim goes, was then used, in part, to help influence elections in the US and UK. This ultimately led to Zuckerberg being called before the U. Congress to testify in Facebook's defense. Facebook was also investigated by the Federal Trade Commission over the allegations. This, in turn, led the U.
It was my mistake, and I'm sorry. It is unlikely that Facebook will radically change the way they gather and sell user data in the future, as this is the basis for how their Facebook ads, Facebook Marketplace , and Facebook Business Manager services work.
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