Facebook’s World

I – History

A – What is Facebook:
Facebook is a social network, aiming to maintain and build relationships between people. The story begins at Harvard on February 4, 2004. On university campus, a student, Mark Zuckerberg creates a website to facilitate exchanges with his friends. He founded "The Facebook", originally at thefacebook.com. Registration was initially limited to students of Harvard University and the first month, more than half of the students at Harvard University has signed in on the service. So, Some friends joined him to help promoting the website, Eduardo Saverin (on the business angle), Dustin Moskovitz (is a programmer), Andrew McCollum (a graphic designer) and Chris Hughes.

B – Facebook in number :
The network grows, spreads to all of the university students and several campuses, the universities of Stanford, Columbia and then to the whole United States, Canada etc.. We can now keep a blog on Facebook, share photos, chat with friends, meet friends of friends.

It has become a social toolbox, somehow, that can be employed both for personal (play, have fun, meet people) and professional purposes (purchase, sell, collaborate, organize events, do training, advertising).
Today, Facebook shines proudly with 600 million active members. It Users, all over the world, are 55% women and 45% men. Regarding France, it is ranked seventh in terms of users’ number and there are over 21 million users which counts as many men as women aged between 18 and 35.

II – Facebook, a new way of communication
Facebook is increasingly used all over the world, but what does really facebook brings? Why does someone register in the network? Why is it so famous?

On a individual point of view:
• it creates a group of friends, and that was the idea of his very young designer,it is a network of friends, those we have crossed once, those we used to know but are far away or the current ones. Anyway, this allows to stay in touch at all times