Early Facebook

Facebook is a social networking website created by Mark Zuckerberg and company founded in Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. During its creation was divulged among a small group of students from Harvard University in the United States after opening any user to use their email account as a user of the site. In 2003 Mark climbed his first prototype called Facemashdonde where photographs and names of students of the same university showed but a few hours stay off the air. In January 2004, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss along with Divya Narendra talked to Mark about creating a web directory of members of fraternities. The Thefacebook appeared on February 4 dl same year, a few days later, the brothers and Narendra opened a demand as Thefacebook Mark was similar to a website called HarvardConnection.com were working. Shortly after opening the option for users from other universities may register Thefacebook grew and achievement incorporate students of all Ivy League universities.

During 2004 and thanks to the expansion of Thefacebook, Sean Parker, creator of Napster, knew of the existence of Thefacebook by his girlfriend in the university environment. Parker knew was social networking and shareholder Friendster, who by then was the most popular site. Parker knew Thefacebook had greater potential for the kind of audience it was intended site. Entered into discussions with Zuckerberg and accomplishment enter as CEO; I immediately removed the "the" and finally the name'm like Facebook. In 2005 Sean Parker was removed from the post of president when he was arrested for cocaine possession.

The idea of social networking sites was nothing new for the time but Zuckerberg's strategy has been to open the Facebook platform to other developers by appealing to many. Between 2007 and 2008 a version of Facebook translated into Spanish spread to Latin America was achieved; was accomplished by volunteers as well as German and French versions that allowed him to move quickly to a wider audience. In 2007 Facebook was used in Canada and the UK. In October 2014 they accounted for more than 1350 million active accounts being the top of the company so far. Infrastructure consists of a network of more than 50,000 active servers.

The company in 2012 acquired Instagram for one billion dollars in February 2014 and bought WhatsApp 16,000 million.