February 4: Facebook social network was founded by Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook today is the most popular social networking site in the world today with a number of users over 1 billion in 2014.

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Mark Zuckerberg was the founder of Facebook when he was sitting in a university chair. He is currently CEO of Facebook and owns a huge fortune of $ 34.5 billion when he was only 31 years old.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with friends of computer science students and roommate Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes when Mark was a student at Harvard University. Facebook's predecessor is Facemash.

When he was in his second year at Harvard, Zuckerberg created Facemash. This site selects individual photos of halls in Harvard school after which viewers can choose which photos are hotter.

The site was quickly transferred to several campus list servers but was shut down a few days later by Harvard administrators. Zuckerberg was punished by management for violating security, copyright infringement and infringement of personal freedom and facing expulsion.

The predecessor of today's Facebook social networking site

The next semester, Zuckerberg founded "The Facebook" , originally located at thefacebook.com, on February 4, 2004. The initial membership registration is limited to Harvard University students, and within the first month, more than half of the undergraduate students at Harvard have registered for this service.

Thefacebook.com page interface

In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale. The expansion continued as it opened to all Ivy League schools and the Boston area, then quickly reached most universities in Canada and the United States. In June 2004, Facebook moved its operating facility to Palo Alto, California. The company removed The from the name after acquiring the facebook.com domain name in 2005 for $ 200,000.

Facebook then extended membership registration to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft. Then on September 26, 2006, Facebook opened to people over 13 with a valid email address.

On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced it had acquired 1.6% of Facebook's ($ 240 million) stake, raising Facebook's asset value to about $ 15 billion. Microsoft also bought the rights to allow the company's international ads to be placed on Facebook. In October 2008, Facebook announced it had set up an international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. In November 2010, based on statistics from SecondMarket Inc., a stock exchange of private companies, Facebook's total assets were $ 41 billion and became the third largest web services company in the United States. after Google and Amazon.

Facebook has come a long way to becoming the world's largest social networking site

The number of Facebook visitors has increased steadily since 2009. On March 13, 2010, the number of Facebook visitors exceeded the number of visitors to Google.

Mark Zuckerberg, after founding Facebook, quit school at Harvard in 2005 to continue building this social networking site. In 2010, Zuckerberg was named by Time magazine as the Person of the Year. He was also the youngest person to appear in the Forbes 40 list. On May 19, 2012, Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan, the son of a Vietnamese Chinese refugee who came to the United States in the 1970s, once studied with Zuckerberg and now have a doctor's degree in medicine. In 2014, Zuckerberg was ranked 13th among the richest people in the world with total assets of $ 34.5 billion.