Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg was  a student at Harvard University, and was a computer programmer. He had developed others networking websites targeting fellow students before working on his latest website called The Facebook.

In 2004, The Facebook, was launched and its name originated from the profiling of students and university staff in paper form. Over 1,200 Harvard students joined within the first 24 hours of is launch and nearly half of the university within a month, In time. The network quickly spread to many other universities in the country. It then became facebook.com in 2005 and soon everyone was talking about Facebook as the new in thing when it spread to the general public in almost every country.

Users are allowed to add other users and socialize by chatting and leaving comments on each others photos. Apart from the free usage of the network, there is also a whole range of games that can be played on Facebook. It overtook all other social networks and had over 1 billion users in 2013. Today, Facebook earns billions of dollars in revenue from advertising and since the listing of Facebok on the stock exchange, Zuckerberg has bocome a billionaire.

Food for Thought :

Common or traditional human interaction can be reformed with many changes. Times change, and we must keep changing along with it or risk being left behind.

Short Stories on Discoveries, Inventions, Innovation & Creativity

AAET and UTAR, 2015

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