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This article is about the website. For the collection of photographs of people after whichit is named, see Facebook (directory).

Facebook, Inc.

Type Private

Founded Cambridge, Massachusetts[1] (2004)

Founder

Mark Zuckerberg

Eduardo Saverin

Dustin Moskovitz

Chris Hughes

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California, U.S., will be

moved toMenlo Park, California,U.S. in June 2011

Area served Worldwide

Key people

Mark Zuckerberg (CEO)

Chris Cox (VP of Product)

Sheryl Sandberg (COO)

Donald E. Graham (Chairman)

Revenue US$800 million (2009 est.)[2]

Net income N/A

Employees 2000+(2011)[3]

Website facebook.com

IPv6support www.v6.facebook.com

Alexa rank 2 (March 2011[4])

Type of site Social networking service

AdvertisingBanner ads, referral marketing, casualgames

Registration Required

Users600 million[5][6] (active in January2011)

Available in Multilingual

Launched February 4, 2004Current status Active

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Facebook(stylized facebook) is a social networking service and website launched inFebruary 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] As of January 2011,Facebook has more than 600 million active users.[5][6]Users may create a personal profile,
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add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notificationswhen they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest usergroups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics. The name ofthe service stems from the colloquial name for the bookgiven to students at the start ofthe academic year by university administrations in the United States to help students get

to know each other better. Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be atleast 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellowcomputer science students Eduardo Saverin,Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[7] Thewebsite's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but wasexpanded to other colleges in the Bostonarea, the Ivy League, andStanford University. Itgradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to highschool students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over.

A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking

service by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.

[8]

EntertainmentWeekly put it on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalkour exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing gameof Scrabulous before Facebook?"[9] Quantcast estimates Facebook has 135.1 millionmonthly unique U.S. visitors in October 2010. [10] According to Social Media Today, inApril 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account.[11]

Contents

[hide] 1 History

2 Company 3 Website

4 Reception

5 Criticism

6 Social impact

7 Political impact

8 In media

9 See also

10 Notes

11 References

12 External links

History

Main articles: History of Facebookand Timeline of Facebook
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Mark Zuckerbergwrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003,while attending Harvard as a sophomore. According to The Harvard Crimson, the sitewas comparable to Hot or Not, and "used photos compiled from the online facebooks ofnine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the'hotter' person".[12][13]

Mark Zuckerbergco-created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room.

To accomplish this, Zuckerberghacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computernetwork and copied the houses' private dormitoryID images. Harvard at that time did nothave a student "facebook" (a directory with photos and basic information). Facemashattracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online.[12][14]

The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down afew days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg was charged by theadministration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individualprivacy, and faced expulsion. Ultimately, however, the charges were dropped.[15]Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that semester by creating a social study toolahead of an art historyfinal, by uploading 500 Augustanimages to a website, with oneimage per page along with a comment section.[14] He opened the site up to his classmates,and people started sharing their notes.

The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January2004. He was inspired, he said, by an editorial inThe Harvard Crimsonabout theFacemash incident.[16]On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook",originally located at thefacebook.com.[17]

Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss,TylerWinklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading theminto believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com,while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product.[18] The threecomplained to theHarvard Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. Thethree later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, subsequently settling.[19]
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Membership was initially restricted to students ofHarvard College, and within the firstmonth, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on theservice.[20]Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), AndrewMcCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote thewebsite. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford,Columbia, and Yale.[21]It soon

opened to the otherIvy League schools,Boston University,New York University,MIT,and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States.[22][23]

Facebookincorporatedin the summer of 2004, and the entrepreneurSean Parker, whohad been informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president.[24]In June2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California.[21]It received itsfirst investment later that month from PayPal co-founderPeter Thiel.[25] The companydropped The from its name after purchasing the domain namefacebook.com in 2005 for$200,000.[26]

Total active users[N 1]

Date Users(in millions)

Days later Monthly growth[N 2]

August 26, 2008 100[27] 1,665 178.38%

April 8, 2009 200[28] 225 13.33%

September 15, 2009 300[29] 150 10%

February 5, 2010 400[30] 143 6.99%

July 21, 2010 500[31] 166 4.52%

January 5, 2011 600[32][N 3] 168 3.57%

Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg calledthe next logical step.[33] At that time, high-school networks required an invitation to join.[34] Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies,including Apple Inc. and Microsoft.[35]Facebook was then opened on September 26,2006, to everyone of age 13 and older with a validemail address.[36][37]

On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share ofFacebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.[38] Microsoft's purchase included rights to place international ads on Facebook. [39] InOctober 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters inDublin, Ireland.[40] In September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash flowpositive for the first time.[41] In November 2010, based on SecondMarket Inc., anexchange for shares of privately held companies, Facebook's value was $41 billion

(slightly surpassing eBay's) and it became the third-largest US web company afterGoogle and Amazon.[42] Facebook has been identified as a possible candidate for an IPOby 2013.[43]

Traffic to Facebook increased steadily after 2009. More people visited Facebook thanGoogle for the week ending March 13, 2010.[44] Facebook also became the top socialnetwork across eight individual marketsin Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia,Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Vietnam, while other brands
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commanded the top positions in certain markets, including Google-owned Orkut in India,Mixi.jp in Japan, CyWorld in South Korea, and Yahoo!'s Wretch.cc in Taiwan.[citation needed]

In March 2011 it was reported that Facebook removes about 20,000 profiles from the siteevery day for various infractions, including spam, inappropriate content and underage

use, as part of its efforts to boost cyber security.[45]

Wikinews has related news: Facebook reaches 500 million users

Company

Entrance to Facebook's current headquarters in the Stanford Research Park, Palo Alto,California.

Most of Facebook's revenue comes from advertising. Microsoft is Facebook's exclusivepartner for servingbanner advertising,[46] and as such Facebook only servesadvertisements that exist in Microsoft's advertisement inventory. According to comScore,an internet marketing research company, Facebook collects as much data from its visitorsas Google and Microsoft, but considerably less than Yahoo!.[47] In 2010, the security teambegan expanding its efforts to reduce the risks to users'privacy.[48] On November 6, 2007,Facebook launched Facebook Beacon, which was an ultimately failed attempt toadvertise to friends of users using the knowledge of what purchases friends made.

Facebook generally has a lowerclickthrough rate (CTR) for advertisements than mostmajor websites. For banner advertisements, they have generally received one-fifth thenumber of clicks on Facebook compared to the Web as a whole.[49] This means that asmaller percentage of Facebook's users click on advertisements than many other large

websites. For example, while Google users click on the first advertisement for searchresults an average of 8% of the time (80,000 clicks for every one million searches),[50]Facebook's users click on advertisements an average of 0.04% of the time (400 clicks forevery one million pages).[51]

Sarah Smith, who was Facebook's Online Sales Operations Manager, confirmed thatsuccessful advertising campaigns can have clickthrough rates as low as 0.05% to 0.04%,and that CTR for ads tend to fall within two weeks.[52] Competing social network
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MySpace's CTR, in comparison, is about 0.1%, 2.5 times better than Facebook's but stilllow compared to many other websites. Explanations for Facebook's low CTR include thefact that Facebook's users are more technologically savvy and therefore use ad blockingsoftware to hide advertisements, the users are younger and therefore are better at ignoringadvertising messages, and that on MySpace, users spend more time browsing through

content while on Facebook, users spend their time communicating with friends andtherefore have their attention diverted away from advertisements.[53]

Revenues(estimated, in millions US$)

Year Revenue Growth

2006 $52[54]

2007 $150[55] 188%

2008 $280[56] 87%

2009 $775[57] 177%

2010 $2,000[58] 158%

On pages for brands and products, however, some companies have reported CTR as highas 6.49% for Wall posts.[59] Involver, a social marketing platform, announced in July 2008that it managed to attain a CTR of 0.7% on Facebook (over 10 times the typical CTR forFacebook ad campaigns) for its first client,Serena Software, managing to convert 1.1million views into 8,000 visitors to their website.[60]A study found that for videoadvertisements on Facebook, over 40% of users who viewed the videos viewed the entirevideo, while the industry average was 25% for in-banner video ads.[61]

Facebook has over 1,700 employees, and offices in 12 countries.[62]Regarding Facebookownership, Mark Zuckerbergowns 24% of the company, Accel Partners owns 10%,

Digital Sky Technologies owns 10%,[63]Dustin Moskovitz owns 6%, Eduardo Saverinowns 5%, Sean Parkerowns 4%, Peter Thiel owns 3%, Greylock Partners and MeritechCapital Partners own between 1 to 2% each, Microsoftowns 1.3%, Li Ka-shingowns0.75%, the Interpublic Group owns less than 0.5%, a small group of current and formeremployees and celebrities own less than 1% each, includingMatt Cohler, Jeff Rothschild,Adam D'Angelo,Chris Hughes, andOwen Van Natta, while Reid Hoffman and MarkPincus have sizable holdings of the company, and the remaining 30% or so are owned byemployees, an undisclosed number of celebrities, and outside investors.[64]AdamD'Angelo, chief technology officer and friend of Zuckerberg, resigned in May 2008.Reports claimed that he and Zuckerberg began quarreling, and that he was no longerinterested in partial ownership of the company.[65]

On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced it had acquired FB.com from theAmericanFarm Bureau Federationfor an undisclosed amount. On January 11, 2011, the FarmBureau disclosed 8.5 million in "domain sales income", making the acquisition ofFB.com one of the ten highest domain sales in history.[66]

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Main articles: Facebook features and Facebook Platform

Facebook's homepage features a login form on the top right for existing users, and aregistration form directly underneath for new visitors.

Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information, andother personal information. Users can communicate with friends and other users throughprivate or public messages and a chat feature. They can also create and join interestgroups and "like pages" (formerly called "fan pages", until April 19, 2010), some ofwhich are maintained by organizations as a means of advertising.[67]

To allay concerns about privacy, Facebook enables users to choose their own privacysettings and choose who can see specific parts of their profile.[68]The website is free tousers, and generates revenue from advertising, such asbanner ads.[69]Facebook requires auser's name and profile picture (if applicable) to be accessible by everyone. Users cancontrol who sees other information they have shared, as well as who can find them insearches, through their privacy settings.[70]

Profile shown on Facebook in 2011.

The media often compare Facebook to MySpace, but one significant difference betweenthe two websites is the level of customization.[71] Another difference is Facebook'srequirement that users give their true identity, a demand that MySpace does not make. [72]MySpace allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets(CSS), while Facebook only allowsplain text.[73] Facebook has a number of features withwhich users may interact. They include the Wall, a space on every user's profile page thatallows friends to post messages for the user to see;[74]Pokes, which allows users to send avirtual "poke" to each other (a notification then tells a user that they have been poked);[75]
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Photos, where users can upload albums and photos;[76] and Status, which allows users toinform their friends of their whereabouts and actions.[77] Depending on privacy settings,anyone who can see a user's profile can also view that user's Wall. In July 2007,Facebook began allowing users to post attachments to the Wall, whereas the Wall waspreviously limited to textual content only.[74]

Facebook mobile graphical user interface

On September 6, 2006, aNews Feed was announced, which appears on every user's

homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events, andbirthdays of the user's friends.[78] This enabled spammers and other users to manipulatethese features by creating illegitimate events or posting fake birthdays to attract attentionto their profile or cause.[79] Initially, the News Feed caused dissatisfaction amongFacebook users; some complained it was too cluttered and full of undesired information,while others were concerned it made it too easy for others to track individual activities(such as relationship status changes, events, and conversations with other users).[80]

In response, Zuckerberg issued an apology for the site's failure to include appropriatecustomizable privacy features. Since then, users have been able to control what types ofinformation are shared automatically with friends. Users are now able to prevent user-set

categories of friends from seeing updates about certain types of activities, includingprofile changes, Wall posts, and newly added friends.[81]

On February 23, 2010, Facebook was granted a patent [82] on certain aspects of its NewsFeed. The patent covers News Feeds in which links are provided so that one user canparticipate in the same activity of another user.[83] The patent may encourage Facebook topursue action against websites that violate its patent, which may potentially includewebsites such as Twitter.[84]
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One of the most popular applications on Facebook is the Photos application, where userscan upload albums and photos.[85] Facebook allows users to upload an unlimited numberof photos, compared with otherimage hosting services such asPhotobucket and Flickr,which apply limits to the number of photos that a user is allowed to upload. During thefirst years, Facebook users were limited to 60 photos per album. As of May 2009, this

limit has been increased to 200 photos per album.[86][87][88][89]

Privacy settings can be set for individual albums, limiting the groups of users that can seean album. For example, the privacy of an album can be set so that only the user's friendscan see the album, while the privacy of another album can be set so that all Facebookusers can see it. Another feature of the Photos application is the ability to "tag," or label,users in a photo. For instance, if a photo contains a user's friend, then the user can tag thefriend in the photo. This sends a notification to the friend that they have been tagged, andprovides them a link to see the photo.[90]

Profile shown on Thefacebook in 2005

Facebook profile shown in 2007

Facebook Notes was introduced on August 22, 2006, a blogging feature that allowed tagsand embeddable images. Users were later able to import blogs from Xanga,LiveJournal,Blogger, and other blogging services.[36] During the week of April 7, 2008, Facebookreleased a Comet-based[91]instant messagingapplication called "Chat" to severalnetworks,[92] which allows users to communicate with friends and is similar infunctionality to desktop-based instant messengers.
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Facebook launched Gifts on February 8, 2007, which allows users to send virtual gifts totheir friends that appear on the recipient's profile. Gifts cost $1.00 each to purchase, and apersonalized message can be attached to each gift.[93][94] On May 14, 2007, Facebooklaunched Marketplace, which lets users post free classified ads.[95] Marketplace has beencompared to Craigslist by CNET, which points out that the major difference between the

two is that listings posted by a user on Marketplace are seen only by users in the samenetwork as that user, whereas listings posted on Craigslist can be seen by anyone.[96]

On July 20, 2008, Facebook introduced "Facebook Beta", a significant redesign of itsuser interface on selected networks. The Mini-Feed and Wall were consolidated, profileswere separated into tabbed sections, and an effort was made to create a "cleaner" look.[97]After initially giving users a choice to switch, Facebook began migrating all users to thenew version beginning in September 2008.[98] On December 11, 2008, it was announcedthat Facebook was testing a simpler signup process.[99]

On June 13, 2009, Facebook introduced a "Usernames" feature, whereby pages can be

linked with simplerURLs such as http://www.facebook.com/facebook as opposed tohttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=20531316728 .[100] Many new

smartphones offer access to the Facebook services either through their web-browsers orapplications. An official Facebook application is available for the iPhone OS, theAndroid OS, and the WebOS.Nokia and Research In Motion both provide Facebookapplications for their own mobile devices. More than 150 million active users accessFacebook through mobile devices across 200 mobile operators in 60 countries.

On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced a new "Facebook Messages" service. In amedia event that day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "It's true that people will be able tohave an @facebook.com email addresses, but it's not email." The launch of such a feature

had been anticipated for some time before the announcement, with some calling it a"Gmail killer." The system, to be available to all of the website's users, combines textmessaging, instant messaging,emails, and regular messages, and will include privacysettings similar to those of other Facebook services. Codenamed "Project Titan,"Facebook Messages took 15 months to develop.[101][102]

In February 2011, Facebook began to use thehCalendar microformat to mark up events,and the hCard microformatfor the events' venues, enabling the extraction of details tousers' own calendar or mapping applications.[103]

Reception

According to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthlyunique visitors, having overtaken main competitorMySpacein April 2008.[104] ComScorereports that Facebook attracted 130 million unique visitors in May 2010, an increase of8.6 million people.[105] According to Alexa, the website's ranking among all websitesincreased from 60th to 7th in worldwide traffic, from September 2006 to September2007, and is currently 2nd.[106]Quantcast ranks the website 2nd in the U.S. in traffic, [107]and Compete.com ranks it 2nd in the U.S.[108] The website is the most popular for
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uploading photos, with 50 billion uploaded cumulatively.[109] In 2010, Sophos's "SecurityThreat Report 2010" polled over 500 firms, 60% of which responded that they believedthat Facebook was the social network that posed the biggest threat to security, well aheadof MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn.[48]

Facebook is the most popular social networking site in several English-speakingcountries, including Canada,[110] the United Kingdom,[111] and the United States.[112][113][114][115] In regional Internet markets, Facebook penetration is highest in North America (69percent), followed by Middle East-Africa (67 percent), Latin America (58 percent),Europe (57 percent), and Asia-Pacific (17 percent). [116]

The website has won awards such as placement into the "Top 100 Classic Websites" byPC Magazine in 2007,[117] and winning the "People's Voice Award" from the WebbyAwards in 2008.[118] In a 2006 study conducted by Student Monitor, aNew Jersey-basedcompany specializing in research concerning the college student market, Facebook wasnamed the second most popular thing among undergraduates, tied withbeerand only

ranked lower than the iPod.

[119]

On March 2010, Judge Richard Seeborg issued an order approving the class settlement inLane v. Facebook, Inc., the class action lawsuit arising out of Facebook's Beaconprogram.

In 2010, Facebook won the Crunchie Best Overall Startup Or Product the third year ina row[120] and was recognized as one of the "Hottest Silicon ValleyCompanies" byLead411.[121] However, in a July 2010 survey performed by the American CustomerSatisfaction Index, Facebook received a score of 64 out of 100, placing it in the bottom5% of all private sector companies in terms of customer satisfaction, alongside industries

such as the IRS e-file system, airlines, and cable companies. Reasons for why Facebookscored so poorly include privacy problems, frequent changes to the website's interface,the results returned by the News Feed, and spam. [122]

In December 2008, the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory ruled thatFacebook is a validprotocol to serve court notices to defendants. It is believed to be theworld's first legal judgement that defines a summons posted on Facebook as legallybinding.[123] In March 2009, the New Zealand High Court associate justice David Glendallallowed for the serving of legal papers on Craig Axe by the company Axe Market Gardenvia Facebook.[124] Employers (such as Virgin Atlantic Airways) have also used Facebookas a means to keep tabs on their employees and have even been known to fire them overposts they have made.[125]

By 2005, the use of Facebook had already become so ubiquitous that the generic verb"facebooking" had come into use to describe the process of browsing others' profiles orupdating one's own.[126] In 2008, Collins English Dictionary declared "Facebook" as theirnew Word of the Year.[127] In December 2009, theNew Oxford American Dictionarydeclared their word of the year to be the verb "unfriend", defined as "To remove someone
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as a 'friend' on a social networkingsite such as Facebook. As in, 'I decided to unfriendmy roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.'"[128]

As of April 2010, according to The New York Times, countries with most Facebook usersare the United States, the United Kingdom andIndonesia.[129]Indonesia has become the

country with the second largest number of Facebook users, after the United States, with24 million users, or 10% of Indonesia's population.[130]Also in early 2010, Openbookwasestablished, an avowedparodywebsite (and privacy advocacy website)[131]that enablestext-based searches of those Wall posts that are available to "Everyone", i.e. to everyoneon the Internet.

Writers forThe Wall Street Journalfound in 2010 that Facebook apps were transmittingidentifying information to "dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies". Theapps used an HTTP referrerwhich exposed the user's identity and sometimes theirfriends'. Facebook said, "We have taken immediate action to disable all applications thatviolate our terms".[132]

Criticism

Main article: Criticism of Facebook

Facebook has been met withcontroversies. It has been blocked intermittently in severalcountries including the People's Republic of China,[133]Vietnam,[134]Iran,[135]Uzbekistan,[136]Pakistan[137] Syria,[138] andBangladesh on different bases. For example, it was bannedin many countries of the world on the basis of allowed content judged as anti-Islamic andcontaining religious discrimination. It has also been banned at many workplaces toprevent the wasting of employees' time.[139] Theprivacy of Facebook users has also been

an issue, and the safety of user accounts has been compromised several times. Facebookhas settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property.[140]

Social impact

In many ways, Facebook has impacted on the social life and activity of people. One ofsuch impacts is with the ability to reunite lost family members and friends. One of suchreunion was between John Watson, who had spent the last 20 years searching for his longlost daughter. The two met on Facebook as father found her profile.[141] Another father-daughter reunion happened between Tony Macnauton and Frances Simpson who had not

seen each other for nearly 48 years.

[142]

Political impact
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The stage at the Facebook Saint Anselm College debates in 2008.

Wikinews has related news:Egyptian man names daughter 'Facebook'

Facebook's role in the American political process was demonstrated in January 2008,shortly before theNew Hampshire primary, when Facebook teamed up withABCandSaint Anselm Collegeto allow users to give live feedback about the "back to back"

January 5 Republican and Democratic debates.

[143][144][145]

Charles Gibson moderated bothdebates, held at the Dana Center for the Humanities at Saint Anselm College. Facebookusers took part in debate groups organized around specific topics, register to vote, andmessage questions.[146]

Over 1,000,000 people installed the Facebook application 'US politics' in order to takepart, and the application measured users' responses to specific comments made by thedebating candidates.[147] This debate showed the broader community what many youngstudents had already experienced: Facebook was an extremely popular and powerful newway to interact and voice opinions. An article written by Michelle Sullivan of Uwire.comillustrates how the "facebook effect" has affected youth voting rates, support by youth of

political candidates, and general involvement by the youth population in the 2008election.[148]

In February 2008, a Facebook group called "One Million Voices Against FARC"organized an event that saw hundreds of thousands ofColombiansmarch in protestagainst the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC (fromthe group's Spanish name).[149] In August 2010, one of North Korea's official governmentwebsites, Uriminzokkiri, joined Facebook.[150]

In 2010 an English director of public health, whose staff was researchingSyphilis, linkedand attributed a rise in Syphilis cases in areas of Britain to Facebook. The reports of this

research were rebuked by Facebook as "ignoring the difference between correlation andcausation."[151]

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At age 102, Ivy Bean ofBradford, England joined Facebook in 2008, making her

one of the oldest people ever on Facebook. An inspiration to other residents of thecare home in which she lived,[152]she quickly became more widely known and

several fan pages were made in her honor. She visited Prime MinisterGordonBrown and his wife, Sarah, inDowning Street early in 2010.[153] Some time aftercreating her Facebook page, Bean also joined Twitter, when she passed themaximum number of friends allowed by Facebook. She became the oldest personto ever use the Twitter website. At the time ofher death in July 2010, she had4,962 friends on Facebook and more than 56,000 followers on Twitter. Her deathwas widely reported in the media and she received tributes from several notablemedia personalities.[154]

"FriendFace", a December 2008 episode of the British sitcom, The IT Crowd,

parodied Facebookand social networking sites, in general.[155]

American authorBen Mezrich published a book in July 2009 about Mark

Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, titled The Accidental Billionaires: TheFounding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal.[156]

In response to the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day controversy and the ban of

the website in Pakistan, an Islamic version of the website was created, calledMillatFacebook.[157]

"You Have 0 Friends", an April 2010 episode of the American animated comedy

series, South Park,parodied Facebook.[158]

The Social Network, a drama film directed by David Fincherabout the foundingof Facebook, was released October 1, 2010.[159] The film features an ensemble castconsisting ofJesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield as EduardoSaverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, andArmie Hammeras Cameron and

Tyler Winklevoss. The film was written by Aaron Sorkin and adapted from BenMezrich's 2009 book. The film was distributedby Columbia Pictures. No staffmembers of Facebook, including Zuckerberg, were involved with the project.However, one of Facebook's co-founders, Eduardo Saverin, was a consultant forMezrich's book. Mark Zuckerberg has said that The Social Networkis inaccurate.[160]

On February 22, 2011, an Egyptian baby was named "Facebook" to

commemorate the vital role Facebook and other social media played in Egypt'srevolution.[161]
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