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Definition of Facebook from my favorite source, Wikipedia: Facebook is a social networking website, launched on February 4, 2004. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a former HarvardHarvard College. It was subsequently expanded to MIT, Boston University, Boston College, and all Ivy League schools within two months. Many individual universities were added in rapid succession over the next year. Eventually, people with a university (e.g .edu, .ac.uk, etc.) email address from institutions across the globe were eligible to join. Networks were then initiated for high schools on February 27, 2006 and some large companies. Since September 11, 2006, anyone 13 or older may join. Users can select to join one or more participating networks, such as a high school, place of employment, or geographic region. student. Initially the membership was restricted to students of The site has over 57 million active members (including non-collegiate members) worldwide, with membership expected to surpass 60 million users by the end of 2007. From September 2006 to September 2007 the site's traffic ranking increased from 60th to 7th, according to Alexa.United States, ahead of public sites such as Flickr, with over 60 million photos uploaded weekly. It is the number one site for photos in the The name of the site refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of the campus community that some U.S. colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus. Join us on Facebook! It's our favorite tech scoial network toy (of the moment). Only registered users can write comments. Add as favorite (0) | Quote this article on your site | E-mail
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