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Facebook

Company name: Facebook
Foreign-language name: Facebook
Headquarters location: CA palaatu
Established: February 4, 2004
Business: social network
Founder: Mark Zuckerberg
Assets structure: Peter Thiel and Accel Partners established
Main translation: non-recognition is not available, Facebook, Facebook (Taiwan)

Facebook is a social network service website on February 4, 2004 on line. Main founder Mark Zuckerberg for Americans. Facebook is the world's number one photo sharing site, uploaded on 8.5 million photos each day. As the increase in the number of users, Facebook's goals have been pointing to another area: Internet search. On February 1, 2012, Facebook officially to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed initial public offering (IPO) application for target to raise US $ 5 billion, and appointed as the main underwriter, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. Silicon Valley, it would be the largest-ever IPO. On May 18, 2012, Facebook officially in the United States listed on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. In June 2012, Facebook said it plans to dabble in online payments.

Facebook headquarters in California Street in San Francisco. By 2012, Facebook has 350 employees. Is Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, he is a student at Harvard University, graduated fro m Asdsley high school before. Initially, the site registration is limited to students of Harvard College. Over the next two months, registered expanded to other Boston area College, Boston College, Boston University, Boston College, Boston University, MIT, Tufts, tefuci University, Stanford, and the University of Rochester, Rochester, Stanford, NYU, New York University, Northwestern University, and all of the Ivy League. The following year, many other schools also were added. Eventually, the suffix has a University email on a global scale, such as. edu,.AC,.UK can be registered. Later, Facebook can also be set up in high school and corporate social network. On September 11, 2006, any user entering a valid e-mail address and your own age, you can join. Users can sel ect to join one or more networks, such as secondary schools, companies, or parts of it.

According to data for July 2007, Facebook at all to serve its students for business Web sites, has the largest number of users: 34 million active users, including non-University users in the network. From September 2006 to September 2007, the site in the US rankings of websites increased fro m 60th to 7th place. While Facebook is a United States number one photo sharing site, uploaded on 8.5 million photos each day. 2010 top 500 world brands: Facebook King Microsoft first.

Origin of the name

Site name Facebook comes fro m traditional paper "roster". Generally United States universities and preparatory schools of all members of the school community are published this "roster" awarded to new students, faculty and staff, helping people to understand the rest of the school.

Feature service

Wall
Message boards on the wall is the user profile page. Access to other users on a particular user's complete archive page, you can see that user's wall. User message in the wall also use Feed output. Many users through their friends ' walls, text messaging. More private exchanges through "messages (Messages)". Sends a message to a user's personal mailboxes, like e-mail, only if the addressee and the sender can be seen.
In July 2007, users can be on the wall attachment. , Before I allow text content.
Poke
Facebook provides a "poke (Poke)" function, so users can leave a "stamp (Poke)" to others. The Facebook FAQ explains: "the Poke is a way of you and your friends interact. In designing this feature, we believe that providing such a function with no clear purpose, actually it's quite cool. Users to Poke a different explanation, we also encourage you to submit your own interpretation. "This feature only allows the user to actually attract the attention of other users.
While it is true that many users use this feature to draw the user's attention, or to say "Hey", but some users are still interpreted it as "**" meant. This interpretation has caused a very popular Facebook group-"Poke enough, we might as well **" (Enough with the Poking,Lets Just Have **). By September 2008, a total of 380,000 users of this group.
Sometimes friends called "Poke" game – between two users "Poke back" feature, Poke, Poke to go with each other.
Derived some new features, such as "x me", and "Super Poke" that users can replace any Poke.
State
State, allowing users to show their friends and the Facebook community where they are, and what to do. Facebook allows users to fill in the tip of the State is "(user). ", The user fills in the rest of the. The user's buddy list "recent updates" area displays the status.
Gifts
In February 2007, Facebook has added a "gift" feature. Friends can send each other "gifts" designed by former Apple designer SusanKare funny little icons. Gift fro m Facebook's virtual gift shop sel ection presents herewith a message when. Gifts received in gifts and the attached message is displayed. Zhihou, Facebook introduced a new gift every day, most of them limited editions, or just supply the deadline. User's personal Facebook user can use this feature.
Activities
Features help users to notify friends of Facebook activities are activities that will occur, help users organize offline social activities.
Video
Facebook video (Facebook Video Sharing), launched with the Facebook open platform at the same time. Users can upload videos, through "Facebook Mobile" upload mobile videos and videos with a camera lens. While the user can to a friend in the video "label". This feature is considered to be in competition with MySpace-related features. Facebook video can only be viewed within the Facebook network. However, some published on the Userscripts allows users to download Facebook video Greasemonkey code or reposted on other sites.
Market
In May 2007, Facebook launched the Facebook market. Users can free classifieds: sell second-hand goods, housing, work, and so on. Supply and demand can be released. All Facebook users can use this feature.
Identifies the language
Facebook Markup Language (Facebook Markup Language), the language is a subset of HTML. Facebook application developers used this language to customize the application's appearance.