FACEBOOK
Facebook is an online social networking directory that connects people with friends, family, and other people. People use Facebook to connect with friends and share photos and videos. It also is good for meeting new people and staying in touch with an old friend that moved. Facebook was founded in 2004, and anyone can sign up to Facebook and interact with new people in a safe Internet environment. On Facebook anyone can share their photos and videos all for free.
Facebook is all for giving people their privacy in areas where they only want some people to see their personal photos. The people who have a Facebook can share photos with only their friends, family, or coworkers. Facebook has always had a safe background to all the photos and videos that the people share. Facebook has established a Safety Advisory Board that it consults with on safety issues. Facebook has also required that people use their real names on their accounts.
Facebook has over 1,700 employees working for them in their many locations across the country. Their headquarters is in Palo Alto, California, but they have many U.S. offices. Such as Atlanta; Birmingham, Michigan; Chicago; Dallas; Detroit; New York City; Venice Beach, California; and Washington, D.C. Over 500 million people are active in facebook around the world today. The members of the board are Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, Jim Breyer, Don Graham, and the observers, David Sze and Paul Madera.
By 2007, Facebook had more than 20 million registered users. There were a couple of hundred employees and revenues were said to be in the neighborhood of $100 million for the year. Though the privately owned company was tight-lipped about finances, hints in the media strongly suggested it was turning a profit. Facebook ranked as the sixth or seventh largest social networking site. It was on top in some key metrics, according to com Score Media Metrix statistics quoted in Fast Company. It led the country in photo sharing, a capability at the heart of the Web 2.0 challenge.
In 2007 the company signed up with Comcast to produce a web cast called the "Facebook Diaries," based on video contributed by users. Opening membership to the general public swelled the membership rolls and shifted the demographics away from the college age crowd. Interestingly, more than one-quarter of users were outside the United States. Facebook is very popular today and is used by many people across the world. I cannot get a Facebook until I am fifteen years old.
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