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What is Facebook?

History of Facebook and various unknown facts...?

By Arfan RaihenPublished 9 months ago 3 min read

Facebook is the most popular social media in the world. It is also the most popular social media in Bangladesh.

From the history of Facebook, it is known that it is an American organization. Anyone can open an account or ID on Facebook for free.

You can contact your friends, family and relatives through Facebook ID. Chat, status, voice calls, video sharing, etc. are popular features of Facebook.

Through Facebook, users can add friends, send messages and update and exchange their personal information. In addition, users can also join their city, workplace, school and regional networks.

The history of Facebook is very interesting and intriguing. Facebook is an American company. But it was not initially launched as an organization.

Facebook was invented by American Mark Zuckerberg on February 4, 2004.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook on February 4, 2004. Although he founded Facebook, its current owner is Facebook Inc.

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook with the joint efforts of his roommates, computer science students Eduardo , Dustin , and Chris Hughes, while studying at Harvard University.

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook while studying at Harvard University with his roommates, computer science students Eduardo Severing, Dustin , and Chris Hughes.

Zuckerberg created a site called Face smash on August 28, 2003, during his second year at Harvard University. This is the predecessor site to Facebook.

In 2004, he was inspired by Facemasks. And he thought of founding Facebook. On February 4 of that year, he did that historic thing with his friends.

He started writing the code for TheFacebook.com in January 2004. Mark Zuckerberg was soon joined by Dustin (programmer), Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saver in (business spokespersons) and Andrew McCollum (graphic artist).

At the time of its founding, Facebook's web link was https://thefacebook.com. It slowly started gaining widespread popularity. In December 2004, the number of Facebook users reached one million.

In 2005, Facebook was renamed. It was then that the current name “Facebook” was given. In December 2005, the number of Facebook users exceeded 5.5 million.

Until 2005, its users were employees of various organizations. But in September 2006, it was opened to everyone. Then, 3 months later, the number of users exceeded 12 million.

In February 2008, Facebook was used in France and Spain after Canada and Britain. In April of this year, Facebook's most popular feature “Chat” was launched.

In an article on the Wikipedia website "list of most popular websites", "Facebook" is said to be the fourth most popular website on the Internet.

And currently, Facebook is considered to be the third (3) most visited website on the Internet.

And that is, after "Google" and "YouTube".

There are many "Facebook users" among us who have been using Facebook for many years.

However, even in the present time, there are many such internet users for whom "Facebook" is a new thing.

In the "list of most popular websites", "Facebook" is said to be the fourth most popular website on the Internet.

And currently, Facebook is considered to be the third (3) most visited website on the Internet.

And that is, after "Google" and "YouTube".

There are many "Facebook users" among us who have been using Facebook for almost many years.

In early 2009, Facebook had more than 150 million users. In December, it reached 350 million.

In 2010, it had 550 million users and in 2017, it had about 1.5 billion users. In 2017, Facebook surpassed Google to become the world's most popular website.

Who is the father or creator of Facebook?

Mark Zuckerberg is the father or creator of Facebook. However, he is not its sole founder. Along with him, some of his friends and roommates also worked behind the creation of Facebook.

However, the name of the friend has already been mentioned above.

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Arfan Raihen

Hello, I am a new member of Vocal Media and I have also worked in Vocal Media before with another account and I have the skills to work with you for a long time.

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