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The history of Facebook – how was a popular social network created?
09:40 27.09.2010
The history of Facebook – how was a popular social network created?
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When the vast majority of people from all over the world hear the phrase "social network", then they usually come to mind, first of all, a website Facebook.com.
There is nothing strange in this, because today this creation of Mark Zuckerberg is the most popular social network in the world.
In addition, Facebook is the best example of a brand of the XXI century.
Zuckerberg founded this social network only six years ago, but books and articles are already being written about it, which are designed to answer the question and explain to the majority how it was and how it all started.
Let's try to understand these issues by looking at the history of Facebook.
People like Mark Zuckerberg are different from others and unconventional thinking.
People like him are difficult to understand, but often their actions can change the world.
Thanks to Facebook, people can keep in touch with their numerous acquaintances.
Previously, society did not have such an opportunity, but now, to everyone's joy, things are different.
Communication between people is not limited to simple correspondence.
With the help of Facebook, you can see how a person lives by viewing his photos, notes, videos, etc.
Also, this social network is not limited to the usual communication of familiar people.
There are various interest groups that unite people around them.
Moreover, Facebook contains a huge database of questionnaires, which significantly exceeds the most popular dating sites, in this case, the chances of finding a second half increase.
Thanks to Facebook, even the principle of dating between people on the street has changed with the United States.
Now it does not come as a surprise to anyone that instead of her phone number, a girl tells a young man her address on Facebook.
Agree, it is more convenient than giving your number to a stranger, because on Facebook you can find out what a new acquaintance does, what he lives, who his friends are and eventually decide whether it is worth trying to build any relationship with him.
But not only ordinary people use the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg.
Many companies are looking for new employees on Facebook, as well as communicate with customers.
The creator of Facebook – the world's most famous social network
Mark Zuckerberg was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York on May 14, 1984.
Since childhood, he has shown considerable curiosity.
For a long time, antiquity was his serious hobby, in addition, he studied ancient languages.
In the sixth grade, he discovered the world of programming.
At that time, among his classmates, a craze for computers began and Mark began programming.
The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg with actor Jet Li.
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His first language was C++, and not Pascal or Basic, which usually starts the path of novice programmers.
In the ninth grade, he created a small game "Risk".
However, the real success came to him while studying at a boarding school located in the city of New Hampshire.
There, Zuckerberg created an add on for the media player, which skillfully analyzes the taste preferences of users and collects new playlists based on them.
This plugin was named Synapse.
He attracted attention to Zuckerberg from several large companies, and Microsoft wanted to hire him to work for them.
However, Zuckerberg refused this offer and preferred to go to study at Harvard, where he entered the faculty of psychology.
Mark studied well there, and also managed to hack the university server.
All information about the students of this institution, including additional data and photos, was stored on this server.
Zuckerberg came up with the idea to make an online directory of students, but the university management forbade him to do this, citing the privacy policy.
Then he just hacked the ill fated database and created the Facemash website, where photos of students were displayed in pairs, and it was suggested to evaluate which of them looks more attractive.
For this violation, the administration gave the student a serious reprimand, but the commission noted that he is a talented computer specialist.
Next, Zuckerberg came up with the idea of creating a Facebook site.
At first, he worked with a group of guys from senior courses on the ConnectU website.
There he was as a programmer.
But one day he told the partners about his departure from their project.
And after a while, Zuckerberg launched the social network Facebook.
Former partners claimed that Mark stole their idea.
However, this information has still remained unclear.
The history of the appearance of Facebook
On the memorable day of February 4, 2004, the social network Facebook appeared.
From the beginning, its functioning was limited only to Harvard, however, after some time, registration was opened for representatives of other universities.
Then Zuckerberg asked the question of investing.
He managed to get the first money from Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal.
500 thousand dollars was enough to implement the immediate plans of Facebook.
After that, the project began to develop even more rapidly.
Since its foundation, less than half a year has passed, as its audience has grown to a million people.
The first investor of Facebook is Peter Thiel.
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In 2005, the social network went beyond the educational sector, and became available to everyone.
Users were attracted to this social network by the fact that, unlike others, it was made to connect people who were really familiar with each other.
Although the audience of the network was increasing every day, but for a long time there was no question of earning money from this project.
It was expected that contextual advertising would become a tool for earning profit, because users filled out a detailed questionnaire about themselves, in which their interests were revealed.
This opened up opportunities for advertisers to find the right audience for them.
However, for some time the site just continued to increase its audience.
At the moment when it passed the 50 million mark, many large companies began to make offers to the Brand to buy this project.
Yahoo!
she offered $ 900 million for this social network, but this amount did not suit Zuckerberg.
In 2007, a major event happened in the history of Facebook.
The fact is that Microsoft acquired a 1.6% stake in the network for $ 240 million.
After this transaction, Bill Gates decided to register on Facebook.
For some time, he spent several hours a day communicating with everyone using this social network, however, as there were more and more people willing, he decided to delete his account, just physically not having time to communicate with everyone.
However, thanks to Gates, the social network has received PR around the world.
Russian shareholders in Facebook
Last year, Russian investors became interested in Facebook shares.
In 2009, Digital Sky Technologies, which is owned by Yuri Milner, Alisher Usmanov and Grigory Finger, acquired 1.96% of the company's preferred shares.
$ 200 million was spent on the purchase, which means that the company itself was valued at $ 10 billion.
Later, Digital Sky Technologies bought a 3% package of ordinary shares from shareholders for $ 14.77, based on the company's valuation of $ 6.5 billion.
Innovations for Facebook users
One of the latest breakthroughs of Facebook was the development of its own API.
This allows developers to write programs for the social network.
The project was quickly overgrown with applications of various utility.
Calendars, informers, organizers, but first of all mini games, which now just filled Facebook.
Many developers earn money thanks to this platform, but Facebook does not charge any money for this.
For earnings, the company tries to try a variety of options.
Selling advertising is not everything.
Recently, a social network participant can order a real product for another participant.
To do this, you need to pay for the necessary goods and choose the recipient.
He will receive an ID, presenting which in the store cooperating with Facebook, the user will receive his gift.
Facebook also makes money on paid groups for companies.
For groups, there is a limit on sending no more than 1200 messages daily.
If a company's group consists of millions, then it has to purchase a subscription to a paid group.
Photo: rishibando/flickr.
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In this case, the opportunities for productive communication with customers increase significantly.
Today, there are more than 230 sponsored groups on Facebook.
They bring the company $ 23 million a month.
Development of the social network Facebook today
Now Facebook is trying to take a serious position outside the United States.
The company faced such a problem as clone projects.
In some cases, legal proceedings were initiated by the Facebook management against clone projects.
Nevertheless, now Mark Zuckerberg's website occupies the position of one of the most important resources on the Internet.
Of course, one day the boom in social networks will stop, but this will not reduce the popularity of this project.
The secret of success is that Facebook is a solid project that has become firmly embedded in the lives of many people around the world.
Source: 24company.ru
Topics: Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo
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20.06.2012, 20:41
Evgeniy
The site is cool but I canot zareg The virus on the computer does not give and even that virus prohibits downloading files from the Internet
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05.02.2011, 12:43
Sergey Danilov
These stupid Americans will start eating shit if they take it in a beautiful package and advertise it well.
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16.01.2011, 05:17
Dubrovsky Igor
Cool project!I believe that it will be supplemented in the near future with various services including psychotherapeutic tools!
Only Russians can do this!
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