What is Facebook?
Developed in 2004 by then Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg,
Facebook is a social networking site used by more than 500 million people in
every country on the planet, so far in 70 languages. The site’s minimum age is
13, but teens represent only a minority population on Facebook. It’s used by a
lot of adults, certainly including parents. But not just individuals – Facebook’s
also used by businesses, organizations and governments all over the world, to
send marketing messages, seek charitable funding and communicate with
customers and constituents.
Facebook is certainly not the only social networking site. There are thousands
of them, based all over the world, some general-interest social sites for people
in a specific country and some for specific interest groups in many categories
– students, sports fans, film aficionados, cooks, travelers, gamers, music
lovers, etc. Some social sites are designed for use on computers, some just for
mobile phones. Facebook is accessed by both.
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