My blog is about communication, and all this time I have been blank as to what I was going to do my blog on next. How about FACEBOOK!!! Everyone uses it so why didn’t I think of it? Well I’ll tell you why! Because I can be a bit slow at times, hahaha.
Facebook has got to be the most popular social networking site of the century! Facebook laughs at MySpace, MyYearbook, and all the others. I think Twitter is a close second to Facebook, though. Kids of all ages and backgrounds use Facebook to connect with friends from school or family. Some adults use Facebook to re-connect with past friendships. And let’s not forget the games! There are so many games! Some people actually make a Facebook account to play the games. My grandma is a supreme example of that. Although we enjoy Facebook, there are some that do not know the creator of this wonderful site.
Mark Zuckerberg is the creator of Facebook. At the age of 23, a self-made billionaire, he is worth $1.5 billion dollars! He created the site when he was only 20 years old when he attended Harvard. His idea came from a program Harvard had called facebook (lower-case F) as a way of introducing students to each other. But Harvard’s facebook was equipped only with pictures of the students and was not a social networking site. Like I said, it was only created so that the students could go on and see other students in the University.
Mark Zuckerberg took that idea, along with MySpace’s concept, and created the site we all know and have come to love. And in February of 2004, Facebook was born. In just one month, half of the undergraduates of Harvard University had created an account. (It was mainly a site for college students by the way). Zuckerberg expanded his site quickly, offering it to all Ivy League schools, and many other schools. By the end of its first year, Facebook had over one million users.
Over the span of six years, Facebook has expanded to the whole world, quickly becoming the world’s fastest growing social networking site, and now anyone, not just college students, can have a Facebook account! Thank you Mark Zuckerberg for your contribution to the social networking world!
So there you have it folks! Now you know why Facebook was created! I hope you enjoyed my blog! Have a nice day! J
References:
http://www.founderbios.com/mark-zuckerberg.php
