About Facebook

Facebook is a social networking website that launched on February 4 2004. The website is free to use and allows users to join one or more networks, such as a school, place of employment, or geographic region in order to easily connect with other people in the same network. The name of the website refers to the paper facebooks that depict members of a campus community that some American colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook while still a student at Harvard University. Website membership was initially limited to only Harvard students, but was later expanded to include any university student, then later to high school students, and finally, to anyone aged 13 and over.

The website has more than 64 million active users worldwide. From September 2006 to September 2007, the website's ranking among all websites, in terms of traffic, increased from 60th to 7th, according to Alexa. It is also the most popular website for uploading photos, with 14 million uploaded daily. Due to the website's popularity, Facebook has met with a certain amount of criticism and controversy in its short lifespan because of privacy concerns, the politics of its founders, and censorship issues.

Quotes about Facebook

1. This will be the first Facebook data center powered primarily by renewable power, primarily hydro.

   In face book's gone renewable - but not because of greenpeace - by Peter Judge

2. This is one more straw on the camel's back that suggests that Facebook needs to think holistically not just about its privacy policies, but also about baking privacy into their technical design.

   In Facebook Vows to Fix a Flaw in Data Privacy

3. For most people, Facebook is something pretty simple. It's a service you visit every day to connect with the people and things you care about.

   In Facebook confirms state-of-the-art data center in Iowa