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Facebookfrom Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopediajump To: Navigation, Search This Article Is About the Website FacebookFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search This article is about the website. For the collection of photographs of people after which it is named, see Facebook (directory(directory).). Facebook, Inc. Type Private Founded Cambridge, MassachusettsMassachusetts[1][1] (2004 (2004)) Founder Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin Dustin Moskovitz Chris Hughes 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) Chris Cox (VP of Product) Sheryl Sandberg (COO) Donald E. Graham (Chairman) Revenue US$800 mmillionillion (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 You 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 PersonalizationAdvertising Banner ads, referral marketing, casual games AnalyticsRegistration Required Save Accept All Users 600 million[5][6] (active in January 2011) Available in Multilingual Launched February 4, 2004 Current status Active Screenshot[show] Screenshot of Facebook's homepage 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 active users.[5][6] Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, 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 United States to help students get to know each other better. 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 Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. 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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 senseniors,iors, Cameron Winklevoss,Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardCHarvardConnection.com,onnection.com, while he was instead using their ideideasas 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 Harvard College, 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 HugHugheshes 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, New York UniversUniversity,ity, MIT, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States.[22][2States.[22][23]3] Facebook incorporated in the summer of 2004, and ththee entrepreneur Sean This websiteParker, stores data who such had as been informally advising ZuckerbergZuckerberg,, became the company'scompany's 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. 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