Facebook is one of the most popular website currently had humble beginnings, which still shrouded in controversy.
Mark Zuckerberg programmed a variety of “community” services for his classmates and one of them, photo rating website Facemash.com, even secretly used the database of student photos.
Facebook (then thefacebook.com) was founded by Zuckerberg in February 2004, allegedly after only a month of programming. It was originally intended for fellow students from Harvard, then to other universities, high schools and, finally, in September 2006 for everyone over 13 years of age.Today the company is Facebook, Inc having over a thousand employees, and rising profits, according to statitics of about 350 million active users, who write every day 55 million statuses.
FACEBOOK become a necessity in modern social life. According to some research American people on the Facebook even spend three times more time than Google.
Facebook is not perfect, no doubt it becomes very popular among new generation and raising its users day by day, but this is an alarming sign for a new kind of addiction.
