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Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 as a social networking platform for Harvard students. It has since grown to over 2 billion users worldwide and become integral to both social connection and business operations. Facebook has had immense economic and cultural impacts, including contributing over $200 billion to the global economy and changing how people around the world interact and share information online. While primarily a social platform, Facebook has also influenced politics, business marketing, and more. It remains an important part of daily life for many individuals globally to stay connected with friends and family.
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- 1. HISTORY OF FACEBOOKAND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT IN THE LIFE OF INDIVIDUAL AROUND THE WORLD. By TAIWO JUSTICE OLORUNLANA. 1
- 2. Facts • Mark Zuckerbergwas an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur, best know as the co founder and CEO of Facebook. • He was in the position of setting all embracing management and creation design for facebook. 2
- 3. • Facebook wasfounded in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg with help from his room. • He leads the design of Facebook's service and development of its core technology and infrastructure. • Mark studied computer science at Harvard University before moving the company to Palo Alto, California.Earlier in life, Mark developed a music recommendation system called synapse and a peer to peer client called wire-hog • "Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected" • He was known as the youngest Billionaire. 3
- 4. Facebook • Facebook isa social networking service launched in February 2004,owned and operated by Facebook. • It become number one social network around the world. • There are over 890 million daily users. • 1.9 billion mobile active user, and 42% of marketer report that Facebook is very important to their business. 4
- 5. • Facebook hasbecome a legitimate part of the life we live which has contributed positively to the American economy and culture. • According to 2014 statistic 2.72% of American people are using Facebook. • In September 2006 the network was extended beyond educational institution to anyone with a registers email address. • In October 2008 facebook announced that it would get up its international headquarter in Dublin Ireland. • In October 2011 over 350 million users accessed facebook through third mobile phones accounting for 33% of all facebook traffic. 5
- 6. Impact of Facebookon economy and politics • According to Reed Albertgotti stated that facebook was responsible for $227 billion in global economic impact and 4.5 million jobs in the year 2014". • Facebook also played a good role in many election around the universe, including u s a, Nigeria,China ,Indian and United Kingdom. • It's served as the rally of people for a basis and inspired mass movements and political unrest in many country . • Facebook also expand and adapt with the American culture which allowed American to views the wold differently today . 6
- 7. Why facebook important. • Because it promoting American singer,Artist,and provide good opportunities for political and religion speech. • Facebook is an outstanding social networking and piece of technology that has thoroughly transformed American culture and economy the way American looks today. • It also creates new relationship among people around the world and also it's eases as a medium of personal contact. • It helps teenagers prepare for life in the adult social world. • It also serve as the powerful way to communicate with our loves ones, and it's easy way to stay in touch with our friends. • Motivate people to seek more friends and to solve problem. 7
- 8. • In placeslike African, Asia and southern American ,facebook serves as a medium of interacting with the world as it brings those communities closer to the happening of the real world. • The growth rate and popularity of facebook has makes it more enormous useful to the individual around the world. • If facebook were to be a country it would be the 6th largest in the world. • In 2010 statistic showed that over 90% living in Nigeria used facebook. • In Japan the facebook usage statistic was aggregated to be 51% male users and 49% female user. • In U S there are 46% male users and 54% female users. • Facebook is important in the life of individual in the society because it serve asan engine that pass information and reduce unemployment rate. 8
- 9. Why people joinFacebook. • People join facebook because of self presentation and self esteem, self worth, to associate with people around the world. • People join facebook because of job recruitment. • People join facebook to search college opportunity and to engage in the admission process. • People also join facebook to connect to businesses to widely business transaction for means of communication portal for information exchange in order to create a strong relationship among the producers and their customers. 9
- 10. • People joinfacebook to know what is going on around the world.it allow individuals to connect to each other in day to day running. • Facebook's influence on marketing communication ,92% of marketer make used of facebook and reported that it create awareness to their products • Facebook is changing the way people interacting online through people. 10
- 11. Conclusion • It's clearto all that the world is moving toward one direction through the creation of facebook which have make American look thing different today and also it has strong impact in increasing number of scientific journalists using it to passing some ideas to the people.i agree with farhad Manjoo that says" facebook cannot be private that photo we just shared with our friends it obvious that facebook is on the Internet, the main function is to distributed information across the universe" 11
- 12. Work cited. • FarhadManjoo . It's not all facebook's Carolyn elefant do employer using facebook for background checks facebook legal risks. 2008. • Mark Zuckerberg . The biography .com website. Retrieved 10.9. July 02.2015. • Mark Zuckerberg.our commitment to the facebook community.2005. • Nicholas Thompson .,bigger brother , the exponential law of privacy loss practical argument ( 2nd Ed) Laurie, G Kirszner Stephen r.mandell. Bedford/st martins boston New York pages 284,300,307,309. • Primacy,Dan breaking :facebook buying Instagram for $1 billion cnnmoney.com retrieved April 9 2012. • Richard m, facebook mobile usage set to explode read write web. Retrieved may .2012. • Sarah Phillips.A brief history of facebook, from the guardian .com .july 2007. • Sarah Kessler .facebook photo by the number , mashable retrieved may. 2012. • http://zephoria.com /social - media/topp-15 valuable - facebook- statistic. 12
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- #4 Mark Zuckerberg has already left an indelible mark on American culture through his technology skill thus far. His achievement has inspired various youngster in order to work hard to achieve their goals.
- #5 Because it create awareness into their business .and It has provided clear evidence of an increasing American economy and culture, He has allowed American to views our world differently through his creation of social network facebook,because facebook has come across various applications and social media platform that will continues to transfer American culture and economy to a higher and great access to information.
- #6 As for February 2011 facebook has become the biggest and largest online photo host.
- #8 Most people use facebook for fun, and it seems as the optimum communication tool of choice to disseminate individual information in the society to heterogeneous audience without any delay. It allowed everybody to enjoyed the incomparable riches that the global information expedient offer. It has become a scaffold and podium to share knowledge between producer, and consumers around the world.
- #9 In term of businesses, facebook support businessmen and women to creates awareness on their product, it enabling an easy connection between businesses and its customers.it helps businesses in product campaign for promotion for opening marketing. Moreover most politician were use facebook to support their campaign ,for instance when Obama was announced that he would be ruing for president, his campaign was done on social network like facebook and this was gave him huge support .
- #10 A good number of companies have lists of jobs ,jobs seekers then connect to theses companies through facebook.this exchange help both job seekers to showcase their skills and for companies to screen job candidate, as a mean of job connection facebook can be said to reduce unemployment. High school students used this communication portal to gain admission into college and universities.