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HeadquarterHeadquarterss Palo Alto, California, U.S., will be moved to MenMenlolo Park, California, U.S. in June 2011 Area served Worldwide Key people Mark Zuckerberg (CEO) (VP of Product) (COO) Donald E. Graham (Chairman)

Revenue US$800 millionmillion (2009 est.)[2] Net income N/A This website stores data such as cookies to enableEmployees essential 2000+(2011)[3] site functionality, as well as marketing, personalization,Website and analytics. facebook.com may change your settings at any time or accept theIPv6 default support settings. www.v6.fawww.v6.facebook.comcebook.com Alexa rank 2 (Ma(Marchrch 2011[upda2011[update][4])te][4]) Privacy Policy Type of site Social networking service Marketing

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Users 600 million[5][6] (active in January 2011) Available in Multilingual Launched February 4, 2004 Current status Active

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Facebook (stylized facebook) is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] As of January 2011[update], Facebook has more than 600 million .[5][6] Users may create a personal profile, add other users as , and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administraadministrationstions in the to help students get to know each other . Facebook alallowslows anyone who declares themselves to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[7] The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the area, the , and . It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over.

This website stores data such as cookies to enableA January essential 2009 site Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social functionality,networking as well as marketing, service by worldwide monthly active userusers,s, followed by MySpace.[8] personalization, and analytics. YouWeekly put it on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How may changeon your earth settings did at we any stalktime our exes, remember our co-worco-workers'kers' birthdays,birthdays, bug our or accept the default settings. friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"[9] QuaQuantcastntcast estimates Facebook has 135.1 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in October Privacy Policy2010.[10] According to Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of Marketingthe U.S. population had a Facebook account.[11]

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5 Criticism 6 Social impact 7 Political impact 8 In media 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References 12 External links

HistoryMain articles: and Timeline of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore. According to , the site was comparable to , and "used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person".[12person".[12][13]][13]

Mark Zuckerberg co-created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room.To accomplish This website stores data such as cookies to enablethis, Zuckerbergessential site hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network functionality,and as well copied as marketing, the houses' private dormitory ID iimages.mages. HarvardHarvard at that time did not personalization,have and a analytics.student You "facebook" (a directory with photos and basic information). may changeFacemash your settings attracattractedat any timeted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours or accept theonline.[12][14] default settings.

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charges were dropped.[15] ZuckerbeZuckerbergrg expanded on ththisis initial project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of aann art history final, by uploading 500 Augustan images to a website, with ononee image per page along with a comment section.[14] He opened the site up toto his classmates, and people started sharing their notes.

The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004. He was inspired, he said, by an editeditorialorial in The Harvard Crimson about the Facemash incident.[16] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook""Thefacebook",, originally located at thefacebook.thefacebook.com.[17]com.[17]

Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors,seniors, Cameron WinklWinklevoss,evoss, , and , accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a called HarvardCHarvardConnection.com,onnection.com, while he was instead using their ideasideas to build a competing product.[18] The three complained to the Harvard Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. The three later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, subsequently settling.[19]

Membership was initially restricted to students of , and within the first month, more than half the undergraduatundergraduatee population at Harvard was registered on the service.[20] Eduardo Saverin (bus(businessiness aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programme(programmer),r), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris HughesHughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.[21] It soon opened to the other Ivy League schools, Boston University, UniversUniversity,ity, MIT, and gradually most universities in and the United States.[22][23]States.[22][23]

Facebook incorporated in the summer of 2004, and ththee entrepreneur Sean This websiteParker, stores data who such had as been informally advising Zuckerberg,Zuckerberg, became the company'company'ss cookies to enablepresident.[24] essential site In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, functionality,California.[21] as well as marketing, It received its first investment later that month from PayPal co- personalization,founder and analytics. .[25]You The company dropped The from its name after may change your settings at any time or accept thepurchasing default settings. the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.[26]

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Facebook launched a high school version in SeptembeSeptemberr 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step.[33] At that time, highigh-schoolh-school networks required an invitation to join.[34] Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc.Inc. and .[35]

olderFacebook with wasa valid then email opened address.[36][37] on September 26, 2006, to everyone of age 13 and

On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it hadhad purchased a 1.6% shareshare of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.[38] Microsoft's purchase included rights to place international ads on Facebook.[39] In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarterheadquarterss in , .[40] In September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash flow positive for the first time.[41] InIn November 2010, based on SecondMarket Inc., an exchange for shares of privately held companies, Facebook's value was $41 billion (slightly surpassing eBay'eBay's)s) and it became the third-largest US web company after GoogleGoogle and .[42] Facebook has been identified as a possible candidatcandidatee for an IPO by 2013.[43]

This website stores data such as cookies to Trafficenable essential to Facebook site increased steadily after 2009. More people visited Facebook functionality, as well as marketing, personalization,than and analytics. for You the week ending March 13, 2010.[44] Facebook also became the may changetop your social settings network at any time across eight individual markets—in , the Philippines, or accept theIndonesia, default settings. Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Vietnam, while other brands commanded the top positions in certain markets,markets, including Google- owned in , .jp iinn Japan, in South Korea, and Yahoo!'s Privacy Policy .cc in Taiwan.[citation needed] Marketing

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In March 2011 it was reported that Facebook removes about 20,000 proprofilesfiles from the site every day for various infractions, including spam, inappropriate content and underage use, as part of its efforts to boost ccyberyber .[45]

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Company Entrance to Facebook's current headquarters in the , Palo Alto, California.Most of Facebook's revenue comes from advertising. Microsoft is Facebook's exclusive partner for serving banner advertising,[46] and as such Facebook only serves advertisements that exist in MMicrosoft'sicrosoft's advertisemeadvertisementnt inventory. According to comScore, an markemarketingting researcresearchh company, Facebook collects as much data from its visitors as Google and Microsoft, but considerably less than Yahoo!.[47] In 2010, the securitysecurity team began expanding its efforts to reduce the risks to users' privacy.[48]privacy.[48] On November 6, 2007, Facebook launched , which was an ultimately failed attempt to advertise to friends of users using the knowledge of what purchases friends made.

Facebook generally has a lower clickthrough rate (CTR)(CTR) for advertisemadvertisementsents than most major . For banner advertisementadvertisements,s, they have generally received one-fifth the number of clicks on Facebook compared to the Web as a whole.[49] This means that a smaller percentage of Facebook's users click on advertisemeadvertisementsnts than many other large websites. For example, whwhileile Google users click on the fifirstrst advertisemeadvertisementnt for search results an average of 8% of the time (80,000 clicks for every one million searches)searches),[50],[50] Facebook's users click on advertisemeadvertisementsnts an average of 0.04% of the time (400 clicks for every one million

pages).[51]

This website stores data such as cookies to enableSarah essential Smith, site who was Facebook's Online Sales OperationsOperations Manager, conconfirmedfirmed functionality,that as well successful as marketing, advertising campaigns can have clickthrough rates as low as personalization,0.05% and toanalytics. 0.04%, You and that CTR for ads tend to fall within two weeks.[52] may changeCompeting your settings atsocial any time network MySpace's CTR, in comparison, is about 0.1%, 2.5 or accept thetimes default better settings. than Facebook's but still llowow compared to many other websites. Explanations for Facebook's low CTR include the facfactt that Facebook's users are Privacy Policymore technologically savvy and therefore use ad blocking software to hide advertisemeadvertisements,nts, the users are younger and therefore are better at ignoring Marketing advertising messages, and that on MySpace, users spendspend more time browsing Personalizationthrough content while on Facebook, users spend theitheirr time communicating with Analyticsfriends and therefore have their diverted away from advertisements. [53] Save Accept All

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On pages for brands and products, however, some companies have reported CTR as high as 6.49% for Wall posts.[59] Involver, a socialsocial marketing plplatform,atform, announced in July 2008 that it managed to attain a CTR of 0.7% on Facebook (over 10 times the typical CTR for Facebook ad campaigns)campaigns) for its first client,

theirSerena website.[60] Software, manamanagingA studyging found to convert that for 1.1 video million advertisementsadv viewsertisem intoents 8,000 on Facebook, visitors to over 40% of users who viewed the videos viewed the entirentiree video, while the industry average was 25% for iin-bannern-banner video ads.[61]

Facebook has over 1,700 employees, and offices in 1122 countries.[62] Regarding Facebook ownership, Mark Zuckerberg owns 24% of the company, Partners owns 10%, Digital Sky Technologies owns 10%,[63] DustinDustin Moskovitz owns 6%, Eduardo Saverin owns 5%, owns 4%, Peter Thiel owns 3%, and Meritech Capital PartnePartnersrs own between 1 to 2% each, Microsoft owns 1.3%, Li Ka-shing owns 0.75%, the Interpublic Group owns less than 0.5%, a small group of current and former employees and ccelebritieselebrities own lessless than 1% each, including , Jeff Rothschild, Adam D'Angelo, Chris Hughes, and , while and have sizable holdings of This websitethe stores company, data such andas the remaining 30% or so are owned by employees, an cookies to enableundisclosed essential sitenumber of celebrities, and outside inveinvestors.[64]stors.[64] Adam D'Angelo, functionality,chief as well technology as marketing, officer and friend of Zuckerberg, resigned in May 2008. Reports personalization,claimed and analytics. that he You and Zuckerberg began quarreling, and that he was no longer may change your settings at any time or accept theinterested default settings. in partial ownership of the company.[65]

Privacy Policy On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced it had acquiredacquired FB.com from the MarketingAmerican Farm Bureau FederaFederationtion for an undisclosed amount. On January 11, Personalization2011, the Farm Bureau disclosed 8.5 million in "dom"domainain sales income", making Analyticsthe acquisition of FB.com one of the ten highest domain sales in history.[66]

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Facebook's homepage featurefeaturess a login form on the top right for existing users, and a registration form directly underneath for new visitors.Users can creacreatete profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information, and other

throughpersonal private information. or public Users messages can communicate and a chat withfeature.featu frre.iends They and can other also users create and join interest groups and "like pages" (formerly cacalledlled "fan pages", until April 1919,, 2010), some of which are maintained by organizationorganizationss as a means of adveradvertising.tising. [67]

To allay concerns about privacy, Facebook enables users to choose their own privacy settings and choose who can see specific papartsrts of their profile.[68] The website is free to users, and generates revenue from advertising, such as banner ads.[69] Facebook requires a user's name and profile picture (if applicable) to be accessible by everyone. Users can control who sees other information they have shared, as well as who can find them in searches, throughthrough their privacy settinsettings.gs. [70]

Profile shown on Facebook in 2011.The media often ccompareompare Facebook to MySpace, but one significant difference between the two websites is the level of customization.[71] Another difference is Facebook's requirement that users give their true identity, a demand that MySpace does not make.[72] MySpaMySpacece allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and CasCascadingcading Style Sheets (CSS), while Facebook only allows plain text.[73] Facebook has a number of features with which users may interact. They include the WalWall,l, a space on every user's

profilewhich allowspage that users allows to send friends a virtual to post "poke" messages to each fforor other the user(a notification to see;[74] then Pokes, tells a user that they have been poked);[75] Photos, where users can upload albums This websiteand stores photos;[76] data such as and Status, which allows users to informinform their friends of their cookies to enablewhereabouts essential site and actions.[77] Depending on privacy settings, anyone who can functionality, as well as marketing, personalization,see anda user's analytics. profile You can also view that user's WallWall.. In July 2007, Facebook began may changeallowing your settings users at any to time post attachments to the Wall, whereaswhereas the Wall was previously or accept thelimited default settings.to textual content only.[74]

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user's friends.[78] This enabled spammers and other users to manipulate these features by creating illegitimate events or posting fake birthdays to attract attention to their profile or cause.[79] Initially, the News Feed caused dissatisfactdissatisfactionion among Facebook users; some complainedcomplained it was totooo cluttered and full of undesired information, while others were concerned it made it too easy for others to track individual activities (such as relationship status changes, events, and conversations with other users).[80]

In response, Zuckerberg issued an apology for the site's failure to include appropriate customizable privacy features. Since then, users have been able to control what types of information are shared automaticallyautomatically with friendfriends.s. Users are now able to prevent user-set categories of friends from seeing updates about certain types of activities, including profile changes, Wall posts, and newly added friends.[81]

On February 23, 2010, Facebook was granted a patentpatent[82][82] on certain aspects of its News Feed. The patent covers News Feeds in whicwhichh links are provided so that one user can participate in the same activity of anotheranother user.[83] The patent may encourage Facebook to pursue action against websites that violate its patent, which may potentially include websites such as .[84]

One of the most popular applications on Facebook is the Photos application,application, where users can upload albums and photos.[85] Facebook allows users to upload an unlimited number of photos, compared with other image hosting services such as Photobucket and , which apply limits to the number of photos that a user is allowed to upload. During the first years, Facebook users were limited to 60 photos per album. As of May 2009, this limit has been increased to 200 photos per album.[86][87][88][89]

This websitePrivacy stores data settings such as can be set for individual albums, limiting the groups of users cookies to enablethat canessential see site an album. For example, the privacy of an album can be set so that functionality,only as well the as user'smarketing, friends can see the album, while ththee privacy of another album personalization, and analytics. You may changecan your be settings set soat anythat time all Facebook users can see it. Another feature of the Photos or accept theapplication default settings. is the ability to "tag," or label, users in a photo. For instance, if a photo contains a user's friend, then the user can tag the friend in the photo. This sends a notification to the friend that they have beenbeen , and provides thethemm Privacy Policya link to see the photo.[90] Marketing

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Facebook profile shown in 2007Facebook Notes was introduced on August 22, 2006, a blogging feature that allowed tags and embeddableembeddable images. UsUsersers were later able to import blogs from , LiveJournal,LiveJournal, Blogger, and other blbloggingogging services.[36] During the week of April 7, 2008, FacebookFacebook released a Comet- based[91] instant messaging application called "Chat" to several networks,networks,[92][92] which allows users to communicate with friends and is similar in functionality to desktop-based instant messengersmessengers..

Facebook launched Gifts on February 8, 2007, which allows users to send virtual gifts to their friends that appear on the recipientrecipient's's profile. Gifts cost $1.00 each to purchase, and a personalized message can be attached to each gift.[93][94] On May 14, 2007, Facebook launched MarketplaceMarketplace,, which lets users pospostt free classified ads.[95] Marketplace has been compared to by CNET, which points out that the major difference between the twotwo is that listings ppostedosted by aa user on Marketplace are seen only by users in the ssameame network as that user, whereas listings posted on Craigslist can be seen by anyone.[96]

On July 20, 2002008,8, Facebook introduced "Facebook BetBeta",a", a significasignificantnt redesign of its user interface on selected networks. The Mini-Feed and Wall were consolidated, profiles were separated into tabbed ssections,ections, and an effort was made to create a "cleaner" look.[97] After initially giving users a choice to switch, Facebook began migrating all users to the nnewew version beginning in September 2008.[98] On December 11, 2008, it was anannouncednounced that Facebook was testing a simpler signup process.[99]

On June 13, 2009, Facebook introduced a "Usernames" featurefeature,, whereby pages can be linked with simpler URLs such as http://www.facebook.http://www.facebook.com/facebookcom/facebook as opposed to http://www.fahttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?cebook.com/profile.php?id=20531316728.[100]id=20531316728.[100] Many new offer access to the Facebook services either through their web-browserweb-browserss or applications. An official Facebook application is available for the iPhone OS, the Android OS, and the WebOS. and Research In Motion both This website stores data such as cookies to enableprovide essential Facebook site applications for their own mobile devices. More than 150 functionality,million as well asactive marketing, users access Facebook through mobile devices across 200 mobile personalization,operators and analytics. in 60 You countries. may change your settings at any time or accept the default settings.

On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced a new "Fac"Facebookebook Messages" Privacy Policyservice. In a media event that day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "It's true that Marketingpeople will be able to have an @facebook.com email addresses, but it's not Personalizationemail." The launch of such a feature had been anticanticipatedipated for some time before Analyticsavailablethe announcement, to all of the with website's some callingusers, itcombines a " ttext extkilkiller."ler." messaging, The system, instant to be messaging, emails, and regular messages, and will iincludenclude privacy settings Save Accept All

similar to those of other Facebook services. CodenaCodenamedmed "Project Titan," Facebook Messages took 15 months to develop.[101][102]

In February 2011, Facebook began to use the hCalendhCalendarar microformat to mark up events, and the hCard microformat for the events' venues, enabling the

extraction of details to users' own calendar or mapmappingping applications.[103]

ReceptionAccording to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly unique visitors, having overtaken main competitor MySpaceMySpace in April 2008.[104] ComScore reports that Facebook attracted 130 million unique visitors in May 2010, an increase of 8.6 million people.[105]people.[105] According to AAlexa,lexa, the website's ranking among all websites increased from 60th to 7th in worldwide traffic, from September 2006 to September 2007, and is currently 2nd.[106] Quantcast ranks the website 2nd in the U.U.S.S. in traffic,[107] and Compete.com ranks it 2nd in the U.S.[108] The websiwebsitete is the most popular for uploading photos, with 50 billion uploaded cumulatively.[109] In 2010, Sophos's "Security Threat Report 2010" polled over 500 firmsfirms,, 60% of which responded that they believed that Facebook was that posed the biggest threat to security, well ahead of MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn.[48]

Facebook is the most popular social networking site in several English-speaking countries, including Canada,[110] the ,[111] and the United States.[112][113][States.[112][113][114][115]114][115] In regional Internet markets, Facebook pepenetrationnetration is highest in (69 percent), followed by Middle East-AfricaEast-Africa (67 percent), Latin America (58 percent), Europe (57 percent), and Asia-Pacific (17 percent).[116]

The website has won awards such as placement into the "Top 100 Classic Websites" by PC Magazine in 2007,[117] and winning the "People's Voice Award" This websitefrom stores the data Webby such as Awards in 2008.[118] In a 2006 study conducted by Student cookies to enableMonitor, essential a New site Jersey-based company specializing in research concerning the functionality,college as well as student marketing, market, Facebook was named the second most popular thing personalization, and analytics. You may changeamong your settings undergraduatesundergraduates, at any time , tied with beer and only ranked lower than the iPod.[119] or accept the default settings.

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In 2010, Facebook won the Crunchie “Best Overall StStartupartup Or Product” the third year in a row[120] and was recognized as one of the "Hottest Silicon ValleValleyy Companies" by Lead411.[121] However, in a July 2010 survey performeperformedd by the American Customer SatisfaSatisfactionction Index, Facebook recereceivedived a score of 64 out ofof 100, placing it in the bottom 5% of all private sectorsector companies in terms of customer satisfaction, alongside industries such as the IRS e-file system, airlines, and cable companies. Reasons for why Facebook scored so poorly include privacy problems, frequent changes to the website's interface, the results returned by the News Feed, and spam.[122]

In December 2008, the Supreme Court of the AustraliAustralianan Capital TerritoryTerritory ruled that Facebook is a valid protocol to serve court notices to defendants. It is believed to be the world's first legal judgement thatthat defines a summonsummonss posted on Facebook as legally binding.[123] In March 2009, the New Zealand High Court associate justice David Glendall allowed for the serving of legal papers on Craig Axe by the company Axe Market Garden via Facebook.[124] Employers (such as Virgin Atlantic Airways) have also used Facebook as a means to keep tabs on their employees and have even been known to fire them over posts they have made.[125]

By 2005, the use of Facebook had already become so ubiquitous that tthehe generic verb "facebooking" had come into use to describe ththee process of browsing others' profiles or updating one's own.[126] In 2002008,8, Collins English Dictionary declared "Facebook" as their new Word of the Year.[Year.[127]127] In December 2009, the New Oxford American Dictionary declaredeclaredd their word of the year to be the verb "unfriend", defined as "To remove someone as a 'friend' on a social networking site such as Facebook. As in, 'I decided to unfrienunfriendd my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.'"[128]

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This websiteusers stores aredata thesuch United as States, the United Kingdom and Indonesia.[129] Indonesia cookies to enablehas become essential sitethe country with the second largest numbnumberer of Facebook users, after functionality,the as wellUnited as marketing, States, with 24 million users, or 10% of Indonesia's population.[130] personalization,Also and in analytics.early 2010, You Openbook was established, an avowedavowed parody website (and may changeprivacy your settings advocacy at any time website)[131] that enables text-based searches of those Wall or accept the default settings. posts that are available to "Everyone", i.e. to everyone on the Internet.

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CriticismMain article: Facebook has been met with controversies. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including the People's Republic of China,[133] Vietnam,Vietnam,[134][134] ,[135] Uzbekistan,[136] [137] Syria,[138] and Bangladesh on

thedifferent basis bases.of allowed For example,content jjudgedudged it was asbanned anti-Islamic in many and countries containing of the religious world on discrimination. It has also been banned at many worworkplaceskplaces to prevent the wasting of employees' time.[139] The privacy of Facebook users has also been an issue, and the safety of user accounts has been compromised several times. Facebook has settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and .[140]

Social impactIn many ways, Facebook has impacted on the social life and activity of people. One of such impacts is with the ability to reunite family members and friends. One of such was between John Watson,Watson, who had spent the last 20 years searching for his llongong lost daughter. The two met on Facebook as father found her profile.[141] Another father-daughterfather-daughter reunion happened between Tony Macnauton and Frances Simpson who had not seen each other for nearly 48 years.[142]

Political impact The stage at the Facebook – Saint Anselm College debatesdebates in 2008. Wikinews has related news: Egyptian man names ddaughteraughter 'Facebook'Facebook''

Facebook's role in the American political process was demonstrated in January 2008, shortly before the New Hampshire primary, when Facebook teamed up with ABC and Saint Anselm College to allow users to give live feedback about the This website"back stores todata back" such as January 5 Republican and Democratic debates.[143][debates.[143][144][145]144][145] cookies to enableCharles essential Gibson site moderated both debates, held at the Dana Center for the functionality,Humanities as well as marketing, at Saint Anselm College. Facebook users took part in debate groups personalization,organized and analytics. around You specific topics, register to vote, and message questions.[146] may change your settings at any time or accept the default settings.

Over 1,000,000 people installed the Facebook application 'US politics' in order to Privacy Policy take part, and the application measured users' responsesresponses to specific ccommentsomments Marketingmade by the debating candidates.[147] This debate showed the broader Personalizationcommunity what many young students had already experienced:experienced: Facebook was Analytics anarticle extremely written popular by Michelle and Sullivanpowerful of new Uwire.com way to intera illustratesct and how voice the opinions. "facebook An Save Accept All

effect" has affected youth voting rates, support by youth of political candidates, and general involvement by the youth population iinn the 2008 election.[148]

In February 2008, a Facebook group called "One MillMillionion Voices Against FARC" organized an event that saw hundreds of thousands of Colombians march in

theprotest FARC against (from the Revolutionarygroup's Spanish Armed nname).[149]ame).[149] Forces of In C AAugustolombia,ugust 2010, better one known of North as Korea's official government websites, Uriminzokkiri, joined Facebook.[150]

In 2010 an English director of public health, whose staff was researchingresearching Syphilis, linked and attributed a rise in Syphilis cases in aareasreas of Britain to Facebook. The reports of this research were rebuked by Facebook as "ignoring the difference between correlation and causation."[151]

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At age 102, Ivy Bean of Bradford, England joined FacebookFacebook in 2008, making hherer one of the oldest people ever on Facebook. An inspirationinspiration to other reresidentssidents of the care in which she lived,[152] she quickly became more widely knowknownn and several fan pages were made in her honor. She vvisitedisited Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife, Sarah, in Downing Street early in 2010.[153] Some time after creating her Facebook page, Bean also joined Twitter, when she passed the maximum number of friends allowed by Facebook. She became the This websiteoldest stores dataperson such toas ever use the Twitter website. At tthehe time of her death in July cookies to enable2010, essential she had site 4,962 friends on Facebook and more than 56,000 followers on functionality, as well as marketing, personalization, Twitter. and analytics. Her death You was widely reported in the media and she received tributes may changefrom your settingsseveral at notableany time media personalities.[154] or accept the default settings. "FriendFace", a December 2008 episode of the British , The IT Crowd, parodied Facebook and social networking sites, in general.[155] Privacy Policy American author Ben Mezrich published a book in JulJulyy 2009 about Mark Marketing Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, titled The Accidental Billionaires: The PersonalizationFounding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal.[156] Analytics

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In response to the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day controversy and the ban of the website in Pakistan, an Islamic version of the website was created, called MillatFacebook.[157] "You Have 0 Friends", an April 2010 episode of the American animatedanimated comedy series, , parodied Facebook.[158]

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