This document provides information about Facebook, including: - Facebook is a social networking website launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg for Harvard students and now has over 500 million users worldwide. - It allows users to create profiles, connect with friends and family, join groups, and share photos and updates. - While Facebook has helped people socialize online, it also faces criticisms over privacy and how much personal information users share publicly.

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4. GROUP MEMBERS OF INFINITE

5. GROUP MEMBERS OF INFINITE

6. GROUP MEMBERS OF INFINITE

7. How do you think what is here?
Friends
Connections
Sociality
New
People
It’s a WORLD
Knowledges

8. It’s a style of our life

9. What is the Facebook
 “An online directory that connects people through social
networks at schools” (facebook.com, 2006)
 “Part huge chat room, part diary, and part dating service,
the Facebook site allows college students to post their
photos and tell about themselves – sometimes too much”
(Messenger, 2005)
 Launched in February 2004 for college students
 Launched in September 2005 for high school students
 More than 9.4 million users, estimated 85% of colleges
are members

10. So what's all the Hype?
What exactly is Facebook®?
•Facebook® is a “social networking website”
•Facebook® is a free service that allows you to
create an online page to connect with friends,
family, or make new friends with anyone anywhere.
•On your Facebook® page you can share pictures,
personal information , messages, videos , join
groups and add applications.

11. What is Social Networking?
Social Networking is defined as:
•A phenomena defined by linking people to each other in some way
by topicguru.com
•A social network service focuses on building online communities of
people who share interests and/or activities, or who are interested in
exploring the interests and activities of others by wikipedia.com
•This is where people develop networks of friends and associates. It
forges and creates links between different people. A social network can
form a key element of collaborating and networking by edublog.org

12. Mark Zuckerberg
It’s a creator.
He is only 26.
• Born on May 14, 1984 in
White Plains, New York to
Edward and Karen Zuckerberg
• Grew up in Dobbs Ferry, New
York
• Jewish family
• His dad is a dentist and his
mom is a doctor

13. History
•Facebook® was founded in 2004 by Harvard
student Mark E. Zuckerberg with help from his
roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
•Facebook® was originally for Harvard students then expanded
to other colleges then to anyone over the age of 18, and now
currently to anyone 13 years of age or older.
•Company Overview:
“Facebook's mission is to give people the power to
share and make the world more open and connected.”

14. Education & Social Life
 Zuckerberg started his high school
education at Ardsley High School in
Ardsley, New York, but he found that
this school wasn’t challenging him
enough so he transferred to Phillips
Exeter Academy, a boarding school in
Exeter, New Hampshire
 After graduating high school, he
attended Harvard University but
dropped out after his sophomore year

15. Facebook® is a social networking website. You can access
Facebook® by login into www.facebook.com and this is
what you will see….

16.  Started programming in middle school and he was very
interested in creating communication programs and
games
 Created a communication program to help the workers in
his dad’s office and a computer version of the game Risk
 He also created a music program called Synapse which
used artificial intelligence to learn about the user’s
listening habits

17.  Because of Synapse, Microsoft and AOL tried to recruit
Zuckerberg and buy his program but he decided to go to
Harvard instead
 While at Harvard he joined the jewish fraternity Alpha
Epsilon Pi and was known for reciting lines from epic
poems such as The Illiad

18. How it began and
bumps along the way
 On October 28, 2003 Zuckerberg was blogging about a girl who
had dumped him when he got the idea to create Facemash
 Facemash was a Harvard version of Hot or Not. It compared two
people and the users voted on which one was “hotter”
 Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computer network to obtain the
pictures of students from the different dorm’s online facebooks
 The site was shut down a few days later by the Harvard
administration and Zuckerberg faced expulsion but the charges
were dropped
 Later that semester he expanded on his initial site by uploading
images for an art history final and allowing comments on the
images so the students could share their notes. The professor said
it had the best grades of any final he had ever given

19. History #2
 Inspired by an article in The Harvard Crimson about the Facemash
incident, Zuckerberg started writing code for a new site
 On February 4, 2004 he launched thefacebook.com
 Within 24 hours the site had between 12 and 15 hundred members
 Membership was originally restricted to Harvard students but gradually
expanded to most colleges in the US and Canada
 In 2004 the company incorporated and moved to Palo Alto, California.
Sean Parker, who had been advising Zuckerberg became the company’s
president
 The company bought the domain name facebook for $200,000 in 2005
dropping the the from the name

20. History #3
 On September 26, 2006 Facebook opened to everyone over the age
of 13 with a valid e-mail address
 Soon after facebook was first created, three Harvard seniors
accused Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for the site. Their site was
going to be called HarvardConnection.com.
 Zuckerberg had originally planned to help them with their site but
he already had facebook in the works when they wanted him to
make HarvardConnection
 A few month after thefacebook.com was launched they launched
their site which they called ConnectU instead of HarvardConnection
 In September 2004 ConnectU sued Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing
their idea. In February 2008 they agreed to settle the suit but in
June of the same year ConnectU appealed the settlement accusing
facebook of trading its stock without disclosing material
information. This appeal is ongoing.

21. Advantages of Facebook
Advantages:
•It’s a social network- It’s a great way to keep in touch with friends and also make
new friends. You can meet people with your same interest or hobbies, and even
connect with people in your same field of study or job.
•Facebook® allows you to share information and photos, you can blog about a
topic of interest, and you can also connect to other applications like, Twitter or
Flickr.
•Facebook® allows people to connect, to learn from each other, to discuss issues,
viewpoints and share advice. You can also join groups having similar likes and
dislikes.
Discussion
Are their anymore advantages and disadvantages you can think of?

23. Interesting Facts
 Microsoft wanted to invest in Facebook but was originally
turned down. Now they own 1.6% of the company’s shares
 Facebook has over 500 full time employees and is worth about
$15 billion
 On November 30, 2007 the 11th richest man in the world, Li
Ka-shing, invested $60 million dollars in the company
 There are over 500 million registered users on Facebook
 Over 1 billion photos and 10 million videos are uploaded to
Facebook each month
 The age group that uses Facebook the most is 35-45 years
People love it.

24. What type of business is
Facebook?
Facebook is a privately owned and operated social
network site owned by Facebook Incorporated.
Facebook’s Mission
Zuckerberg created Facebook as a way for people to
share information and access information. If they
have the ability to do this they are able to connect
more with the people around them and understand
more of what is going on in their world.

25. DISADVANTAGES OF FACEBOOK
Disadvantages:
•Sharing too much private information could become a
problem so share only what you are comfortable with
sharing. Through your privacy settings you can control
what you share.
 People waste more time than any other work now a
days.
 People make fake id and then make fake relationship
which is the most worst thing.

26. It forces our minds

27. Privacy Policy
Major points available on facebook.com:
1.You should have control over your personal information.
Facebook® helps you share information with your friends and
people around you. You choose what information you put in your
profile, including contact and personal information, pictures,
interests and groups you join. And you control the users with whom
you share that information through the privacy settings on the
Privacy page.
2.Children between 13-18
Facebook® recommends that minors 13 years of age or older
ask their parents for permission before sending any information
about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
3.Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
Facebook® share your information with third parties under
the following circumstances: 1) reasonably necessary to offer the
service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you.

28. Fun Facts
•Facebook® has over 200 million users
•Over 70% of Facebook® users are outside the United
States
•The average person has 120 friends on Facebook®
•More than 3.5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook®
each day
•The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old
and older
•Slogan “Facebook® helps you connect and share with the
people in your life.”

30. The Financial Side
 The very first investor in Facebook was technically
Zuckerberg’s friend from Harvard, Eduardo Saverin. He
ivested $15,000 to pay for the first Servers
 Although Saverin was the really the first, the person who
gets the most credit for being the first investor is Peter
Theil, former PayPal CEO, who invested $500,000 in June
2004

31. Zuckerberg Today
 Zuckerberg has a net worth of $5,6
billion
 He is the youngest billionaire in the
world at the age of 26
 212 richest person on the Forbes
richest people list

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