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History of Facebook
By Zoë Chen
Friend Requests, Event Invitations, FarmVille, Happy aquarium, Restaurant City, Group Invites, and many more different applications. The question is, what does all these have in common?
The 5th most valuable US Internet network site, Facebook has reached more than a million youth and adult users participating in their social networking site today within the first five years. From friend requests to event invitations to group invitations, Facebook helps keep people keep in contact and meet other people in reality and inside the online world. It’s a communicative way to meet new people and to keep up with their peer’s social life.
According to AnswersNotes, it was stated that on February 2004, Harvard students Mark E Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, were considered the founders of Facebook. With the help of different sponsors such as Intel, Napster, Pay Pal, Accel Partners, Yahoo!, Greylock Partners, Meritech Capital and Microsoft, up until today, this popular social networking site is estimated to be worth around one billion dollars.
Zuckerberg, Moskovitz, and Hughes created Facebook strictly only for Harvard students, throughout the first two months; the social networking site has grown bigger and has more then 30 college networks joining. At the end of the year 2004, their creation has reached to one million users throughout the world.
Facebook’s mission was to help people become more interested into a networking site that can make them more social. It’s used to help people keep up with their friends, and to learn more about the people that they’ve met before. It was like meeting new people in the online world.
But while meeting new people, and connecting with who ever users want to. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any sex offenders circulating around the site. Facebook had a strategy to keep their participating users safe from every corner. Ever since May 1st, 2008 according AolTech, Facebook have removed about 5,585 sex offenders as they claimed.
By finding out if they’re a sex offender or not, Facebook has this method to see the similarities between the sex offender’s actions and their user id with another social networking site, MySpace.
To make sure Facebook is being used for the better, New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo had enforced the Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act (e-STOP) law according to EpicCenter. This law was released to protect the vulnerable innocent victims. Not only was it enforced to keep them safe from the Web but also in the real world.
Today, Facebook has a total of 300 million users, although it was only open to college students, but that does not mean that those 300 million users are all college students. In the beginning, Facebook was only allowed to students who had an “.edu” e-mail address. But since September 2006, it is now open to anyone who has a valid e-mail address. By doing this, it had made Facebook opened to even more users throughout the world.