Happy birthday Facebook

Social networking website Facebook turns nine years old today. Facebook February 4, 2004, Harvard University dorm four of his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes helped with Andrew McCollum was launched by Mark Zuckerburg. In its early days, the world's largest social media site called thefacebook.com, and later was renamed simply Facebook.

Facebook, which Zuckerberg began as hobby projects, initially was a college network. Facebook expanded to other colleges and universities began in March 2004. Within months, the social network has become a huge success. In October 2007, the software giant Microsoft had 1.6 percent stake in Facebook for $ 240 million. Search Facebook for gaint Google also referred to the partnership agreement. The deal, however, rejected by Facebook.

The company is also the Facebook cards and voice calls on the iPhone in North America to attract users features such as rolled. Faster than the desktop version of the user on the mobile version of the website and is becoming more active.

Cameron Winklewoss, Tyler and Divya Narendra Winklewoss Despite tremendous growth, Facebook privacy concerns, underage members, hacking into Harvard Zuckerburg stealing the idea for Facebook from your seniors in lawsuits dragged over the attacks has been mired in controversy is. Co-founder Eduardo Saverin pushing her out of the company filed a lawsuit against Zuckerburg. Both cases were settled out of court.

User count, the U.S., Brazil, India, Indonesia and Mexico are the countries with the members Max on Facebook. The Google+ Twitter, and LinkedIn is like a huge lead over rival social networks. The September 14, 2012 at 12:45 topped 1 billion users in July 2010 it crossed the 500 million member mark. Since February 2009, Facebook has seen users prefer 1.13 trillion, 219 billion and 17 billion photos being uploaded pictures tagged location.

A 2011 film called social network that Facebook events as well as the installation of Sean Parker (Napster co-founder) and Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal) Facebook's partnership with leading tech titans such as chronicled. The film was nominated for eight Oscars and won three.