Facebook

Do you remember when one could just look up a person in the yellow pages or white pages and find their phone number? Yeah, times have changed now. It all started with the creation of MySpace, but after a few years a more private, safe and specific site in the same genre began. It was called face book. It was at first targeted towards university students, and you would have to join by first entering your school and from an invite from another person, “Face book was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students.” (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook). It became a hit after only 2 weeks. So mark decided to open it up to more people, “Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes to help build Face book, and within four months, Face book added 30 more college networks.”

Zuckerberg arrived at the name face book from something that was done at his high school, “The Exeter Face Book was passed around to every student as a way for students to get to know their classmates for the following year. It was a physical paper book until Zuckerberg brought it to the Internet.” Since nothing no longer is done on paper, Mark was smart to put it up on the Internet. It truly is a very handful tool. One can find their friends from school any where from any time. Unlike MySpace it is a lot safer and more careful on the people who are members and have advertisements on their sites. So even though it had started as a university tool, it did open up to high schoolers “opening up to high school students in September 2005 “. No one needs the paper yellow pages or white pages. Even business can have a page on face book too. It is amazing how one project turned into a multi million/billion dollar company.