What is Facebook?
Facebook is the world's leading social networking that was established by Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg. Instagram is the main subsidiary of Facebook. It is one of the popular social networking s and is available on various applications. Facebook has a wide impact on society, media and culture. In May 2013, the company ranked at 462th position in the Fortune 500 list of companies. It has more than 1.19 billion users. According to 2013 records, it has approximately 5,794 employees globally. It is available in 70 languages including Greek, Galician, Kurdish, Dutch, Bosnian, Zulu, Latin, Tamil, Hindi and French. The company develops a vast array of innovative tools that are used to share, connect, Discover and communicate with each other on computers and mobile. It is authorized by government. Facebook began its journey in 2004. The corporate office is located in Menlo Park, California. It is used for chatting, uploading picture, sending massages, sharing words and many more things.
History Facebook
Facebook has been evolved from Facemash, which was the project of Mark Zukerberg during his stay at
Harvard University in 2003. He hacked the database of the university to turn it as the platform where the one could vote or review the photo of the students. Mark Zukerberg was charged for breaching the security of the Harvard University followed by his expulsion. Later on these charges were dropped and he started foccused on the advance version of Facemash. In 2004, Mark Zukerberg unveiled "Thefacebook", which would accept only the membership of the students studying in Harvard College which was expanded to other educational institutions throughout the USA and Canada. He was assisted by Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum and Chris
Hughes to manage various fields of the such as business operations, programming and graphics. After being relocated to Palo Alto, Facebook was backed by Peter Thiel, a co-founder of Paypal. In 2005, The Facebook was rebranded as Facebook and changed its domain to facebook.com. Facebook was open for everyone around the world in 2006 and by 2007, it had housed the listings of more than 100,000 businesses. The
Next three years marked its growth to emerge as one of the leading online companies in the USA. In terms of traffic, it lagged behind
Google in 2010 and dubbed as the most vid by DoubleClick. Facebook released its initial public offering in February 2012 following by its listing on
Nasdaq in May of the same year. Meanwhile, the company was made the constituent of Fortune 500. Facebook has set up its offices in many countries around the world. Facebook has received several accolades and awards from Webby Awards, Crunchie, PC Magazine etc.
Facebook Basic Features
Coming to the features of Facebook, it allows user to create a page after signing to carry out several activities such as photo uploading on the page; receiving updates from friend list; comment posting box; chat; notifications and messages. The user can opt for its Timeline feature which arranges the information, images and content of users in chronological order of years. User can send friend request to the other users and interact with them by sending messages and linked to their virtual properties on Facebook. Like button is one of
the Iconic features of Facebook which allows a user to respond to other's comment or photos by clicking "Like" or "Unlike". A user must be 13 years or above to create a profile on Facebook.
Other Features of Facebook:
Apart from serving as interaction platform, Facebook houses several
apps on the user's profile page which are used to invite the other users for events and parties. User can reveal his current location by using
"Places" apps with friends. It allows user to advertise through its classification and advertising apps,
Marketplace. Facebook Notes enables the users to
Tag their friends with text, images and photos. Facebook also invites developers to launch their apps and IT services on its
Facebook Platform. Apart from posting images and text, User can insert video file carrying upto 1080 pixels on Facebook. It has designed
Facebook Paper app for iPhone users for scrolling the content in presentation or chronological order. The other popular units of Facebook are
Facebook Credits, Facebook Graph Search, Facebook Live, Mood faces, Listen with Friends, Poke etc.
Facebook for Mobile Platform:
Facebook has designed its counterpart for mobile phones and is accessed through this weblink,
m.facebook.com.
Facebook Online Support:
Facebook provides various troubleshooting tips and guidance to its users which are relating to login and password, account managing, privacy, security, sharing, messaging, pages, and its oher features. Please visit,
www.facebook.com/help.
Headquarters of Facebook:
Facebook has its headquarters located in
California, USA at 601 Willow Road, Menlo Park. It houses over 900 employees and is spread over an area of 57 acre. The corporate office of Facebook includes cafeteria, employees chatting space, entertainment
Rooms and indoor games etc.
Facebook Community:
A user can share and receive reviews or solutions at Facebook Community page which is available at the weblink,
www.facebook.com/help/community/question.
Contact Numbers of Facebook:
A customer can contact Facebook at these numbers,
+1-650-308-7300, and
+1-(650) 543-4800.
Facebook Apps:Facebook is also available as an mobile application to provide direct access to the user. Apart from that, it has been the platform for several apps used in sharing, access, interaction and alerts. Some of its popular apps on its platforms are Band Profile, Causes, Flixster, OnErpm, Someecards, Soundclouds, and WhereI've Been.
Facebook Office Worldwide:The phenomenal success of Facebook led the company to open its offices beyond the boundaries of the USA. Facebook has footprints in several nations across the world like Warsaw, Vancouver, Toronto,Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Sydney, Stockholm Singapore, Seoul, Sao Paulo, Paris, New Delhi, Mumbai, Montreal Milan, Mexico, Melbourne, Madrid, Kuala Lumpur, London, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Hyderabad, Hamburg, Gurgaon, Dublin, Dubai, Berlin, Auckland, and Amsterdam.
Data Cetners of Facebook:Facebook has deployed its servers and relating infrastructure at the data centers located at Forest City, Prineville, Altoona, Ashburn and Lulea.
Facebook Web
Get more detail about Facebook from their
www.facebook.com