Facebook is an American for-profit corporation and online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California. The Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
Facebook is the most popular social network all over the world. The discoverer’s had initially limited the website’s membership to Harvard students; however, later they expanded it to higher education institutions in the Ivy League schools, the Boston area, and Stanford University. Facebook gradually added support for students at various other universities, and eventually to high school students as well. Since 2006, anyone age 13 and older has been allowed to become a registered user of Facebook, though variations exist in the minimum age requirement, depending on applicable local laws. The Facebook name comes from the face book directories often given to United States university students.
Facebook has many language that you can use. You can use Facebook by using your own mother tongue. We are giving you the idea about Facebook language.
Languages: English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Facebook has many features. We are giving that below.
Keeping up with friends is faster than ever.
- See what friends are up to.
- Share updates, photos and videos.
- Get notified when friends like and comment on your posts.
- Play games and use your favorite apps.
Now you can get early access to the next version of Facebook for Android by becoming a beta tester. You can download it from play store Or you can download it by simply click below icon.
Facebook for Android is an indispensable application for users of the most popular social network in the world.It allows you to always be connected, anywhere and anytime. Facebook, the social network par excellence, also has a version specially designed for Android portable devices. Facebook, the social network par excellence, also has a version specially designed for Android portable devices. Its options are practically the same as the computer version’s, with the small difference that you can’t play the majority of the videogames that are integrated into Facebook. Games aside, you can have all of the information about your friends and acquaintances at your fingertips, see your wall, upload and download pictures, change your status, leave comments and a ton of other options that you can carry around in your pocket.
The founders had initially limited the website’s membership to Harvard students; however, later they expanded it to higher education institutions in the Boston area, the Ivy League schools, and Stanford University. Facebook gradually added support for students at various other universities, and eventually to high school students as well. Since 2006, anyone age 13 and older has been allowed to become a registered user of Facebook, though variations exist in the minimum age requirement, depending on applicable local laws. The Facebook name comes from the face book directories often given to United States university students.
Number of advertisers
In February 2015, Facebook announced that it had reached two million active advertisers with most of the gain coming from small businesses. An active advertiser is an advertiser that has advertised on the Facebook platform in the last 28 days. In March 2016, Facebook announced that it reached three million active advertisers with more than 70% from outside the US.
On September 26, 2006, Facebook was opened to everyone at least 13 years old with a valid email address. On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion. Microsoft’s purchase included rights to place international advertisements on the social networking site. In late 2007, Facebook had 100,000 business pages (pages which allowed companies to promote themselves and attract customers). These started as group pages, but a new concept called company pages was planned. Pages began rolling out for businesses in May 2009.
In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Almost a year later, in September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash-flow positive for the first time. Traffic to Facebook increased steadily after 2009. The company announced 500 million users in July 2010 making it the largest online social network in the world at the time. According to the company’s data, half of the site’s membership use Facebook daily, for an average of 34 minutes, while 150 million users access the site by mobile. A company representative called the milestone a “quiet revolution.
A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users. Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade “best-of” list saying, “How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers’ birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?
You do not need to think about how to use facebook. All of your devices will supported Facebook. So, install facebook app and use it.
