Think about the year 2000, six years before the idea of Twitter became a reality, and four years before Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook from his college dormitory, three years before Myspace was adapted to support the idea of social networking. The rumor that many teens, young adults, and adults; may one day spend over 700 billion minutes per month on just one website like Facebook was unimaginable. The social networking sites were just a spark to other designers. Fast forward to the present day and time. College students in the year 2014 can’t wait to update their status. It is crucial for them to let their three-hundred and twenty some odd number of Facebook friends know about the assignment they have due in four days. While scrolling through their news feed they finally realize, from a status update, that they have an unexpected assignment due the following day. While scrolling through the news feed, they see that their favorite sports team has won the game. If a college class is relocated to another location or a high school day is canceled, students are more likely to find out information on Facebook rather than through communication with their school or university networks. Facebook first started as a social networking outlet for a college dormitory at Harvard in February 2004. It was first limited to Harvard students until the expansion, first to area colleges, then all colleges, and ultimately the world. Facebook presently has expanded to over 500 million
Shortly after Myspace, Facebook began in 2004. Mark Zuckerberg, a student and computer programmer at
Facebook is the biggest social media network on the internet with a massive following which continues to expand. Mark Zuckerberg alongside his college roommates created and launched the world’s most popular social media site on 4 February, 2004. Zuckerberg previously developed other sites for fellow students to
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Social Media began affecting our communication and relationships as early as 1969 when the first internet service provider become available to U.S. universities. In 2002, Friendster, the first social media website available to the U.S. was created and gained over 3 million members in just over 3 months. One year later, MySpace launched. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, a 24-year-old Harvard student, created Facebook, an online social networking service. This service was originally a way for students to interact. Today it is the world’s largest social networking service and allows over a billion users to connect though posting photos, sharing links, and comments which all appear on a “News
Facebook is a social network created by Mark Zuckerberg. He made it while he was at Harvard University in 2004, along with Eduardo Saverin. It was originally known as ‘Thefacebook’, until they changed it in 2005, along with the purchase of the relevant domain name for $200,000.
If Facebook was a country it would be the third largest country in the world. Currently there are 1.23 billion monthly Facebook users in the world. This is all due to the engineering ingenuity of Mark Zuckerberg, the man who created Facebook. Facebook has currently become the most populous social networking website according to socialbakers.com which reports trends, demographics, and other statistical figures and findings regarding social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter among many others. Overall, through his invention of the world famous social networking site, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the young internet mogul, has created arguably the best social networking website, through its ease of access, extensive amount of features and quality performance.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York and raised in the nearby village of Dobbs Ferry. His father, Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice and his mother, Karen, worked as a psychiatrist before raising four children—Mark, Randi, Donna and Arielle.
By October 2005 Facebook had reached twenty-one universities in the UK and around the world. Soon after this Facebook had several memberships from employees in large companies such as Apple and Microsoft and in December 11, 2005 universities from Australia and New Zealand had joined the network. Finally on September 26, 2006 Facebook had opened to the public allowing anyone with a registered email address aged thirteen and over to join “Facebook”.
At any given time of day, anyone can access an abundant amount of information at the click of a button. Men, women, kids, teenagers, adults and even the elderly are learning how to use the internet to their advantage. Among all the benefits the internet has provided to us, online communication has proven to be the most beneficial. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have made it easy for everyone to stay in contact with each other. Regardless of how far apart a family member or friend is, everyone is just one click away. If someone is not having a good day, they can share their feelings with everyone in a matter of seconds. These social networking sites have become quite popular among adolescents. They allow teens to stay more connected with their friends outside of school. Now teens have become more obsessed with their friends Facebook or Twitter status than engaging in outdoor activities like football or
Over the past few years something has taken a toll in most people’s lives, we use it, love it, talk about it, and check it almost every hour of every day: this thing is called social networks. It was only a few years back, in 2003, when MySpace was discovered, and in 2004 when Mark Zuckerberg established Facebook, and soon after in 2006 Twitter followed. These sites became more than just an online destination, but a way of life. Notifications, follower counts, friend requests, photo comments- all what might seem like silly things that teenagers and adults alike await the moment they come home to check. We scroll unconsciously through feeds and pictures of people we barely know, from the inquisitive human nature. At school everyone is
Could you imagine a world without the ability to constantly update your status, download pictures, and “check in” to the places you visited while being virtually connected to your thousands of “friends?” Well thanks to Mark Zuckerberg’s creation of Facebook we will never have to. Mark Zuckerberg a CEO, technology innovator, internet mogul, and philanthropist created a virtual world unlike no other which single handily changed the world of social media. He has come to represent the new face of social media and he has Facebook’s five hundred and fifty million users to support this claim. The establishment of Facebook has made entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg a symbol of social media innovation and communication for the 21st century.
The rapid growth of technology in our society has become more dominant than it was in the 17th and 18th century. Today, technology is used for almost everything in our day to day lives. But the most common usage of technology is for communication and industrialization. However, every good thing has its disadvantage if it is over used, and since technology has become very dominant, it is used by both young and older people but more predominant among the youth of the today. Even more, technology has brought about social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, my space, piazza.com, instagram, tango, and last but not the least texting. According to socialnetworking.procon.org, “47% of American adults used social networking sites like
On February 4th, 2004, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) launched Facebook. Facebook is a social media website that connects people from all around the world. Facebook initially limited the website 's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old is allowed to become a registered user of the website.
In February 2004, Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates while they studied at Harvard University. It is the world’s second largest social networking site and was originally known as “The Facebook” which was changed a couple of years later to facebook.com, which it is known as from today (2014).
It’s quite fascinating that in the early 2000’s social media wasn’t even invented; yet statistics show that Facebook has accumulated users surpassing the entire population of the United States. The