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Facebook is a social networking website launched in February
2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.,
with more than 845 million active users. Mark Elliot
Zuckerberg( Born May14, 1984) is an American computer
programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for
co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and
classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris
Hughes while they were students at Harvard University.
WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE USE FACEB OOK
People ages 18-34 spend the most time on
Facebook, consisting of 8.5 hours out of 22.4 spent
on line. People over 55 spend 4.6 out of a total 21.5
hours on line.
FACEBB OOK STATS - GENERAL GROWTH
More than 300 million active user
More than 150 million user log on each day
More than 2/3rds of users outside of college
The fastest growing demographic is 35&years.
About 70% of facebook users outside the U.S.
“WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE?
Every serious business should have a presence on
social networks.
Business need to make their connections
meaningful.
Website magazine August 2009
Welcome to the Revoulution
FACEB OOK STAT-USERENGAGEMENT
Average user has 130 friends on the site
More than 6 billion minutes spent a day
More than 40 million user update their statuses
once each day
More than 10 million users become fans of pages
each day
On May24,2007 Zuckerberg announced Facebook Platform a
development platform for programmers to create social
applications with Facebook. Within weeks, many applications had
been built some already had millions of users. It grew to more
than 800,000 developers around the world building applications
for Facebook Platform. On November 6,2007, Zuckerberg
announced a new social adversting system called Beacon, which
enabled people to share information with their Facebook friends
based on their browsing activities on other sites.
In 2010 Zuckerberg was named Time Magazine’s
Person of the year. As of 2011, his personal wealth
was estimated to be $17.5 billion making him one of
the world’s youngest billionaires. On July 21, 2010,
Zuckerberg reported that the company reached the
500 million-user mark. In 2010, Steven Levy who
authored the 1984 book Hacers: Heroes of the
Computer revolution, wrote that Zuckerber clearly
thinks of himself as a hacker.
FACEB OOK
President Barack Obama and Zuckerberg talk before
a private meeting where Obama dined with
technology business leaders in Woodside, California,
February 17,2011.
WHAT IS FACEBOOKCassandra Carey
Media
7:00 to 9:45
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