What Is Facebook

What Is Facebook

What is Facebook?
Facebook was created in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg.   The website was intentional to be an online version of the University's published Facebook, a yearbook of new students.   At that time, involvement to the website was limited and only to Harvard students.   In a month's, Facebook grew to embrace other Ivy League students as well, and in a year had over 1 million users.   By the end of 2005, Facebook expanded to take in a network of 800 colleges and universities, then high schools, and then international students.   In time for the fall semester of 2006, Facebook began accommodating membership of anyone over the age of 13. Facebook currently has over 90 million active users.
Facebook was designed for college students and its main users are still students.   The basic profile in Facebook includes the following:
  * profile picture
  * Contact information
  * The Wall(A place where you can share stuff like links and videos etc.)
  * Status update(Tell your friends on Facebook what you are doing)
  * Gallery for pictures and videos
Facebook is like many social network sites, is customizable and there is a number of applications you can add to your Facebook account.   Applications are additional tools, games etc. some are created by the Facebook app crew, but numerous more have been produced by a third party developer.  
The common of Facebook's profits comes from advertising and Microsoft is their singular partner for aiding banner advertisements. Facebook has a lower “click through rate” (amount of times an advertisement is being clicked on) than greatly advertising on the web. There are a number of explanations why this might be so, containing the young user ship that are used to ignoring commercials, the use of “ad-blocking software” and the environment of the mass media, people use it for writing messages, which can make advertisements hard to see. Many people also check the site on their smartphones, so even if they are...