Facebook

Facebook is the largest online social networking service. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Huges, all Harvard University students at the time. At present, Mark Zuckerberg leads Facebook as its chief executive officer, and the company is based in Menlo Park, California. As of December 31, 2013, Facebook had more than 1.2 billion active users, supported by around 6,300 employees. It is the second-most-visited Web site after Google and offers a social networking platform in 70 different languages.

The primary service of Facebook is connecting people online. It allows Internet users to create profiles for free and to share their stories, pictures, videos, or any other topics of interests with friends, peers, relatives, colleagues, or complete ...

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