This document summarizes the history and growth of Facebook from its founding in 2004 to the present day. It notes that Facebook was originally created by Mark Zuckerberg for Harvard students and is now the largest social network worldwide with over 600 million active users. The document provides statistics on Facebook usage and growth rates in different countries. It also describes some key features of Facebook like profiles, sharing photos and videos, and communicating with friends.

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Team Supernova Success of Facebook

3. Facebook
is a social
network
service
Launched
in
February
2004
Operated
and
owned by
Facebook,
Inc.
Currently
more than
600
million
active
users

4. Facebook was ranked
No.1 website in 2010
Facebook grew rapidly at
179% as against its closest
competitor orkut, that grew
at a sluggish 16% in india
between the period
July 09 – 10
India is the fourth
fastest growing market
for facebook
More than 3 billion photos
are uploaded to Facebook
every month.
TitBits…

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(in millions)

6. RANDOM FACTS
Founder of Facebook, Mark Zukerberg is the world’s
youngest billionaire
Americans spend 13.9 billion minutes a year on Facebook
Alexandra ranks Facebook as No.1 Social Network
Approximately 70% of Facebook users are outside the
United States.

7. RANDOM FACTS
China, Iran, Vietnam and Syria have banned Facebook.
Both citizens and police departments are increasingly using
Facebook to catch suspected criminals.
On July 1, 2009, after Michael Jackson passed away, his page
became the most popular page on Facebook. Previously, the
most popular person on Facebook was U.S. President Obama
with just over 6 million fans.

8. RANDOM FACTS
In the United States, 54.7% of people ages 13 to 17 have a
Facebook account.
There are more than 800,000 developers building
applications for Facebook
Farmville, a popular game on Facebook boasts more than
60 million players on Facebook

10. 
Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to
Facebook, on October 28, 2003 .
Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its
first four hours online.
The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a
new website in January 2004.

11. 
On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "The facebook",
originally located at thefacebook.com.
Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard
College.
In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo
Alto, California.

12. 
The company dropped “The” from its name after purchasing
the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.
In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its
international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.
Traffic to Facebook increased steadily after 2009. More
people visited Facebook than Google for the week ending
March 13, 2010.

13. 
Facebook's value was $41 billion (surpassing eBay's slightly)
and it became the third-largest US Web Company after Google
and Amazon.
Facebook has been identified as a possible candidate for an
IPO by 2013.
Facebook also became the top social network across eight
individual markets in Asia.

14. Facebook International Headquarters,
Ireland

15. Facebook Headquarters, California

16. Facebook Headquarters, Brazil

17. Users may create a
personal profile, add
other users as friends
and exchange messages
Users may join common
interest user groups,
organized by workplace,
school, or college
Provides comprehensive
live chat with all your
friends
Allows you to share your
thoughts, images and
videos with your friends

18. Profile
 The Facebook profile is the collection of all
information about an user in single page.
 It includes users likes and dislikes in
various fields.
 Users can also give information about their
schools, colleges and workplaces to make it
easy to find friends.
 Users have extensive control over their
privacy symbolized by this logo.
The profile layout has improved
substantially over the years. Now
let us explore the trend…

19. Facebook profile at 2005

20. Facebook profile at 2007

21. Current profile layout

22. Mobile version of Facebook

23. The Wall
Wall is one of the most powerful feature of
Facebook.
 It allows sharing of thoughts, photos and
even videos.
 It allows users to comment on friend’s
post.
 The ‘share’ button below is one of the
most clicked buttons on the site.

24. The Great Wall of Facebook at
California Office

25. The Great Wall of Facebook at
California Office

26. The Great Wall of Facebook at
California Office

27. Share Photos in Facebook
 Facebook allows users to share their
photos.
 Users can upload unlimited number of
photos.
 People in photos can also be tagged.
 Users can also comment on the uploaded
photos.

28. The Facebook photos page provides
comprehensive features

29. The Facebook photos page provides
comprehensive features

30. The Facebook photos page provides
comprehensive features

32. ADVANTAGES OF FACEBOOK
Facebook helps in having better touch with
friends even after education.
It helps in better communication between
people in sharing powerful ideas.
It helps people in connecting with their old
friend.
Makes it less difficult when communicating
with strangers.

33. ADVANTAGES OF FACEBOOK
It is sometimes used by cops for tracing out
culprits.
Nowadays, many companies abroad are
selecting candidates only after assessing their
Facebook profile.
One of the main advantages of Facebook is
that it helps in better communication between
the people and the government.

34. Profile of Barack Obama, President of the United
States of America

36. DISADVANTAGES OF FACEBOOK
Threat of Virus and spam.
Facebook can be very addictive for its
members.
A lot of a user's personal information is so
accessible that almost everyone.
Some people misuse this and provide
false information to trap other user to gain
confidential information.

37. DISADVANTAGES OF FACEBOOK
Facebook is slowly killing traditional
English as most of the users use SMS
vocabulary to replace common words.
Overcrowding at the website is another
major disadvantage.

38. Facebook helps in connecting millions
of people. It is a platform where
people from different culture come
together and share their thoughts,
photos, videos etc., For some people,
Facebook has become an indispensible
What part of their we life. wanted For some others,
to
say their profession is is based either
directly or indirectly that…
on it. But, there
are thousands of people who have lost
their lives to it. Many students,
instead of spending time on academic
activities, waste lots of time on it and
loose their life.
Facebook has its own advantages and

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