What is Facebook

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What is Facebook?

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Facebook is a multinational social networking technology company that helps people connect under one roof. Facebook builds technologies that help people connect with friends and family, and find people, communities from all over the world within clicks.



Facebook also helps businesses to grow. In short, Facebook is the biggest social media technology company with over 2.89 billion monthly active users as of the second quarter of 2021. [Source: statista]




Some important data about the Facebook company


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Founded: February 4, 2004, in Cambridge, Massachusetts United States Of America.


Founder: Mark Zuckerberg


CEO: Mark Zuckerberg


URL: www.facebook.com


Parent Company: Facebook, Inc.


Monthly Active Users: 2.89 billion as of the second quarter of 2021.


Written Language: C++, Hack [as HHVM], D




How Facebook started


Facebook was created by a Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg with Edward Saverin in February 2004. Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook with the purpose to connect with his college friends as a school-based social network at Harvard University.



In 2006 when Facebook's users base grow from nothing and people started loving the site, Facebook opened its door to anyone age 13 years or older. And within times Facebook overtakes MySpace as the most popular social networking site in the world. By the way, MySpace was the most popular social networking site before Facebook overtake it.



Listen how Facebook started from the mouth of the founder of Facebook.



Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg gave his address at Harvard's 366th Commencement on May 25, 2017 at Tercentenary Theatre.




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