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History of Face Book

Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in from the living room at Harvard. Having quit school and moved to Silicon Valley, the inventor of this began to establish step up in business social networking site. Currently Zurkerberg is the world's richest billionaire in history who produce wealth entirely from their own business.

Facebook is a social networking website where users can join communities like the city, work, school, and region to connect and interact with others. People also can add their friends, send messages, and update your personal profile for others to see about him.

Hebohnya, within two weeks after launch, half of all Harvard students have registered and have a account on Facebook. Not only that, several other campuses in the vicinity of Harvard was asked to be included in the network up. Zuckerberg was eventually asked for help two friends to help develop up and meet the demand for other campuses to join the network. Within 4 months since launch, Facebook already has 30 campuses in its network.

With such success, Zuckerberg and two friends decided to move to Palo Alto and rented an apartment there. After several weeks in Palo Alto. Zuckerberg managed to meet with Sean Parker (Napster cofounder), and the results of the meeting also agreed to move to Parker's apartment up to work together to develop up. Not long after that, Parker managed to get Peter Thiel (Paypal cofounder) as its first investor. Thiel invested 500 thousand U.S. dollars for the development up.

In September 2005 up no longer restrict their network just for college students., Facebook opened its network for high school students. Some time later also opened up its network to office workers. And finally in September 2006 Facebook opened registration to anyone who has an e-mail.

No other social networking sites that can rival the appeal up to the user. Until July 2007, this site has the largest number of registered users among the sites that focus on schools with more than 34 million active members from around the world possesses. There is the addition of 200 thousand new accounts per day More than 25 million active users to use up every day. The average user spent about 19 minutes per day to perform various activities on Facebook.

Seeing such a significant development was the predecessor Friendster intend to buy facebook for $ 10 million U.S. Dollars, but rejected by Zuckerberg. He also refused an offer from Viacom who wanted to buy facebook for 750 million U.S. dollars, and the last offer from Yahoo that want to buy Facebook for $ 1 billion U.S. dollars.

At the age of 23 years, the inventor of the social networking site Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest millionaire in history that produced the wealth with his own business. As announced by Forbes magazine, is on the order of 785 Zurkerberg in the list of people - the world's richest people.