Facebook
is a social networking recently pioneered in 2006 by a Harvard student
named Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg Mark
Zuckerberg was born or born on May 14, 1984 in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester
County, New York, United States (U.S.).The idea began when he
attended Exeter High School, New HampshireSaat that he became acquainted
with Adam D'Angelo. Zuckerberg graduated, and entered Harvard
University, originally made Coursematch program which enables students
in the same class can view a list of classmates. The next project to
make facemash.com. Through this
site visitors can stamp "cool" or "bad" picture of a student, and make
Zuckerberg called by the Administrative Board of Harvard University
because it is breaking into the campus computer security systems, break
the rules on Internet privacy, and copyright infringement.
Therefore he mebuat up and launch in 2004. In a short time two-thirds of Harvard students to be Facebook
users. Roommates
Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hugh, dberhasil develop wings to Stanford
University, Columbia, Yale, Ivy College, and several other schools in
the Boston area. In a short time, they launched
Facebook for 30 schools.Moskovitz and
Zuckerberg along with some other friends moved to Palo Alto,
California, summer 2004 rented a small house for the office. Therefore want to work up a serious they leave
Harvard. In his office's Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel, founder of
Paypal, which give a fresh fund of U.S. $ 500,000, is the first investor
so they can move to larger offices at the University Avenue is named as
the office "Urban Campus"On August 23, 2005
from the facebook.com domain buy Zuckerberg Aboutface Corporation worth
U.S. $ 200,000, or about USD 1.86 billion. On 2 September 2005, Zuckerberg
launched Facebook site specifically for children of high school. In just 15 days since its
release, most schools in the U.S. already a member. at the end of
2005, Facebook has covered about 2,000 college and 25,000 high schools
in the U.S., Canada, England, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, New
Zealand, and Ireland.On February 27,
2006, he began to allow the students to become users of the site is to
add high school students as friends. BusinessWeek, launched the news that Zuckerberg is
negotiating with potential buyers Facebook. But, finally, he declined the offer
so-called value of U.S. $ 750 million or around Rp 6.97 trillion. The
reason, Zuckerberg thought the price was too low. At that
time, he estimated the value of U.S. $ 2 billion Facebook.On April 2006, the first
investor of this site, that is Peter Thiel, Greylock Partners, and
Meritech Capital Partners, increase investment in Facebook by depositing
the funds of U.S. $ 25 million. Facebook
also entered India through the Indian Institute of Technology and
Management Institute of India.He also provides facilities
Facebook Notes. This new feature is a blogging feature
that allows users to tag, insert images, and other features. In addition, users
can import a blog from the site Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger and other
blogging sites. Thanks to new features, readers can provide comments on the
paper posted a Facebook user. September
2006, Zuckerberg opened the Facebook service for all internet users. However, these steps are precisely drawn protests
from its users and loyal customers. As a result, two weeks later was forced to fix
up the new service by opening registration for Internet users who have a
mailing address or e-mail is clear.Peter Thiel, predicting revenues this site later in 2015
could reach U.S. $ 1 billion. Well,
at that time, the company was going to come rocketing to around U.S. $ 8
billion. There
are also free classified ads in Facebook. Feature
called Facebook Marketplace was launched on May 14, 2007. This new service was immediately
become rivals other online companies. Craigslist
who had already been placing classified ads on its site. Zuckerberg also
becoming a business to flow smoothly. In fact, Apple is willing to extend cooperation with
Facebook to display the iTunes music samples.Facebook Parakey Inc. bought the company.,
From Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, in July 2007. Parakey is a manufacturer of computer applications that
facilitate the transfer of data in the form of text, images, and video
to a site on the internet. Bill Gates, in
October 2007 bought 1.6% stake in Facebook for U.S. $ 240 million. The reason, Zuckerberg did not intend to sell all the shares
up as well. The reason is quite simple and
noble, he wanted to remain independent Facebook.On 7
November 2007, the site launched a new advertising system called
Facebook Beacon. Hong Kong billionaire, Li Ka-shing, is interested to
invest money worth U.S. $ 60 million in Facebook on 30 November 2007.Now
the number of employees alone has reached 400 people. However, Facebook is a
unique company. executives and top brass are
young, between 24 years-37 years. Facebook's headquarters looks
more like a student dormitory. The employees, who each day gets a free meal
rations, work while doing her favorite activity. There are playing
guitar, biking, playing the control plane, or swaying accompanied by
music blends a disc jockey (DJ). They also do not have to dress neatly. Shorts and flip-flops is their favorite costumes in the office.
Zuckerberg claimed to be averse to an office setting that is
too formal.Though it was able to accumulate assets to
U.S. $ 3 billion or about Rp 27.9 trillion, Zuckerberg still look as it
is, like most young men who enjoyed casual wear.Sources:
http://id.shvoong.com/humanities/history/1946922-sejarah-facebook/ #
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