Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and other Harvard students. It originally started as a social networking site for Harvard students but later expanded to other universities and then publicly in 2006. Key events included expanding internationally in 2009, reaching 500 million users in 2010, going public and reaching 1 billion users in 2012. Facebook now has over 1.44 billion monthly active users as of 2015, with the majority being mobile users. The site generates revenue primarily from advertising on the site and mobile apps. It has changed how people connect and share information online.
5. What is facebook !
social software:
The term social software refers to huge
range of web based programmes ,
services and tools.
Social software contains user created
items like blogs ,wikis and podcast.
User extended services such as photo ,
videos and music sharing sites.
Alternative communication resources - as
instant massaging and virtual worlds and
social networking sites.
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7. Social networking
Social networking services take advantages of social software tools to
create online platforms for peoples to meet , share photos , videos ,
send massages , play games and many more.
There are three primary types of social networks.
i.Sites that contains a specific category directory.
ii.Sites used as a platform to connect with friend or fans ( with
customizable profile pages )
iii.Sites that depend on sujjested systems linked to trust . ( for
professional networking.
Facebook is an example of second type social networking service.
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9. History of facebook
2003 – 2006 the facebook investment and name change
Before that Zuckeberg wrote a programme called ‘Facesmash’ on 28
october, 2003. he was second year student then at Harvard.
the programme was based on if a person is attractive or not comparing it
by hot or not.
He hacked into the Harvards protected network in order to copy private
dormitory ID images.
Facesmash attracted 450visitor and 22000 photo views in it’s first four
hour online.
The site was instantly taken to several campus group list-servers, but was
shutdown a few days later by the Harvard administration.
10. History of facebook
He was charged by the administration for breaching the security and in
violation of copyright and individual privacy.
Facebook was created by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg along with his
Harvard college and fellow students Eduardo Severin , Andrwe Mc Collum
, Dustin moskovitz and Chirs Hughes in 2004. The founders limitated the
website’s membership to harvard students. But later expanded it to colleges
in the Boston area.
Six days after the site launch, three Harvard seniors-1.Cameron
Winklevoss,2. Tyler Winklevoss, and 3.Divya Narendra—accused
Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help
them to build a social network called HarvardConnection.com. They also
claimed that he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product.
they later filled a lawsuit against zuckerberg . For 1.2 million shares worth
$300 .
11. History of facebook
In mid 2004 entreprenuer Sean parker an informal
advisor to Zuckerberg became the companies president.
In june 2004, he moved its operarion base to Palo Alto,
California. in 2005 the company droped ‘the from it’s
name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com
for $200.
In may, 2005 . Accel partners invested 12.5 million and
also JimBreyer invested $1 million of his money.
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13. 2006-2012- approachment to public access, alliance with
Microsoft and Growth
Facebook was opened for everyone in september 26, 2006. eligible for 13
year old and a valid email address.
In 2007 facebook had 100,000 business pages. first the started as group
pages . Pages began to working out for businesses in May 2009.
In October 2008, Facebook declared that it would set up its international
headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Almost a year later, in September 2009,
Facebook said that it had turned cash-flow positive for the first time .
The company announced 500 million users in july 2010.
In early 2011, Facebook announced plans to move its headquarters to the
former Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, California. Month of,
June 1 trillion views in the page.
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15.
16. 2012-13 : law suits and one billion users:
Facebook Inc. started selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ
on May 18, 2012. Based on its 2012 income of $5 billion, it joined the Fortune
500 list for the first time in May 2013, ranked in position 462.
Facebook fullfilled their S1 document with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on February 1, 2012. The company applied for a $5 billion IPO, one
of the biggest offerings in the history of technology. The IPO raised $16 billion,
making it the third-largest in U.S. history.
From May 22 to 31 May , 2012. a complicated situation took place. On May 22,
2012, the Yahoo! Finance website reported that Facebook's lead underwriters,
MorganStanley (MS), JP Morgan (JPM), and Goldman Sach (GS), cut their
earnings forecasts for the company in the middle of the IPO process.The stock
had begun its freefall by this time, closing at 34.03 on May 21 and 31.00 on May
22. A "circuit breaker” was used in an attempt to slow down the stock price's
decline.
Zuckerberg announced to the media at the start of October 2012 that Facebook
had passed the monthly active users mark of one billion Facebook defines active
users as a logged-in member who visits the site
17. 2013- present situation
On April 15, 2013, Facebook announced an alliance across
19 states with the National Association of Attorneys General,
to provide teenagers and parents with information on tools to
manage social networking profiles.On April 19, 2013,
Facebook officially modified its logo to remove the faint blue
line at the bottom of the "F" icon. The letter F moved closer to
the edge of the box.
As of January 21, 2015, Facebook's algorithm is
programmed to filter out false or misleading content, such as
fake news stories and hoaxes, and will be supported by users
who select the option to flag a story as "purposefully fake or
deceitful news
18. Some feature of facebook
wall
• September 2004: Facebook introduces the
Wall, which allows people to write personal
things and other idea on profile pages.
News feed
• On September 6, 2006, News Feed was
announced, which appears on every user's
homepage and highlights information including
profile changes, upcoming events, and
birthdays of the user's friends.
19. some feature of facebook
Facebook page
•In 2007, Facebook launched Facebook Pages
(also called "Fan Pages" by users)
Chat
Facebook Chat was added April 6, 2008. It is a
Comet-based[182] instant messaging
application[183] which allows users to
communicate with other Facebook users
20. some feature of facebook
LIKE
February 9, 2009 - Facebook launches like button.The like button is a social
networking feature, allowing users to express their appreciation of content
February 21, 2016- Facebook launches new reaction button
21. Language of facebook
• Facebook is available in 43 languages and is in the process
of being translated into another 60 languages.
• 40 percent of Facebook users are not using English.
23. Facebook user.
•In its first quarter 2015 earnings announcement today, Facebook revealed that it now has more than 1.44 billion
monthly active users .1.25 billion were mobile users
•Facebook also shared that it now has 936 million daily active users and 798 million mobile daily active users.
•United States with 151.8 million members
•India with 108.9 million members
•Brazil with 70.5 million members
•Indonesia with 60.3 million members
•Mexico with 44.4 million members
•The total facebook user in Bangladesh is 1,020,560, which is 165% higher than the internet user
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25. Revenue of facebook
• Advertising (Sponsored Stories, Sidebar Ads,
Promoted Posts)
• Mobile Advertising
• Facebook Games -- Farmville, Candy Crush,
Mafia Wars, etc
• Facebook credits
• Facebook Gift shop - (discontinued)
26. Revenue of facebook
Facebook is primarily dependent on
advertisements for its overall revenue. According
to a market research on global digital
advertising, Facebook accounts for more than
6% of worldwide digital advertising revenues,
and that number is expected to grow further. And
a substantial chunk of that advertising revenue
(as high as 62% as per the last reports from the
company) is coming from their mobile business.
Facebook continues to grow more and more on
mobile devices, and with the company
experimenting further with ways on how to
engage users more and more with their mobile
ads.
38. conclusion
• In my conclusion part I will be discussing some more information
about Facebook. in the calandarial year 2015 Facebook become
fastest company in the “standard and 500 index”
• To reach a market capital 250 billion. if we look at the popularity of
Facebook we can see that it currently has 900 and 1 million active
viewers worldwide. Facebook has forever changed the way
people share the media content with their friends.
39. some interesting fact about facebook
• 1. In 3 people feels more dissatisfied with their lives after visiting
Facebook, according to a study.
• 2. There are about 30 million dead people on Facebook.
• 3. You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook
• 4. A Blogger hired a woman to slap him every time he's on Facebook.
• 5. Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg donated US$1 billion to
charity in 2013, making him the biggest charitable donor in the U.S.
• 6. 8.7% of Facebook users are fake.
• 7. The weeks before Christmas is the most popular time for couples to
break up, according to data analyzed from Facebook.
• 8. Facebook loses almost US$25,000 for every minute it's down.
• 9. Mark Zuckerberg receives a US$ 1 salary as CEO of Facebook.
• 10. Any text you put into the status update box is sent to Facebook's
servers, even if you don't click the post button.