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~Mark Zuckerberg, creator of "Facebook" <span style="color: rgb(10, 13, 235);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 189, 255);"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(49, 5, 214);"><span style="color: rgb(10, 13, 235);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 189, 255);">Zuckerberg calls Facebook a "social utility". His goal was to provide efficient communication. <span style="color: rgb(0, 20, 255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(15, 25, 174); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(5, 18, 148); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//**wiki made by: <span style="color: rgb(91, 20, 169);">Lauren Crupnick, <span style="color: rgb(35, 133, 30);">Nicole Jablon , <span style="color: rgb(20, 34, 235);">Joanna Troetti , <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 141);">Nicole Ghicas ,**//    <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//**<span style="color: rgb(236, 92, 4);">Ron Qiao <span style="color: rgb(0, 52, 255);">, and <span style="color: rgb(251, 9, 9);">Chase Nackenson **// = = = = = <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 160%; color: rgb(230, 40, 40);"> What is Facebook?= <span style="color: rgb(8, 11, 160);">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(47, 65, 193);"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(62, 81, 168); text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(71, 76, 184); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(71, 78, 194); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(52, 83, 178);"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(154, 154, 193);"><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 245, 245);">Facebook, formerly The Facebook, is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus. (taken directly from  <span class="wiki_link_ext"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 245, 245);">[|**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook**]  <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(154, 154, 193);"><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 245, 245);">) - Ron Qiao    <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(154, 154, 193);"><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 245, 245);"> ** <span style="color: rgb(8, 11, 160);">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(47, 65, 193);"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(62, 81, 168); text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(71, 76, 184); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; color: rgb(71, 78, 194); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(52, 83, 178);"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(154, 154, 193);"><span style="background-color: rgb(244, 245, 245);">In other words, Facebook is a place where adults, college students and high school students can communicate. It was originally developed for Harvard students when it was known as The Facebook. It has since expanded to all different age groups. Facebook can be used to help people communicate, find old friends and even make new ones. On Facebook, you can post pictures of an adventure, write about an experience or even send a friend a bumpersticker! It also has the potential to be safer then Myspace because you have the option of including your phone number and address and you can also set privacy settings. What was originally a Harvard dropout's invention has prospered into the "Google" of 2009! ~Lauren Crupnick ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 143);"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 143);">

General Growth

 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(234, 16, 16);">More than 150 million active users
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(234, 16, 16);">More than half of Facebook users are outside of college
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(234, 16, 16);">The fastest growing demographic is those 30 years old and older

User Engagement

 * <span style="color: rgb(234, 98, 16); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Average user has 120 friends on the site
 * <span style="color: rgb(234, 98, 16); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More than 3 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
 * <span style="color: rgb(234, 98, 16); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More than 15 million users update their statuses at least once each day
 * <span style="color: rgb(234, 98, 16); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More than 3.5 million users become fans of Pages each day

Applications

 * <span style="color: rgb(230, 206, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More than 850 million photos uploaded to the site each month
 * <span style="color: rgb(230, 206, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More than 5 million videos uploaded each month
 * <span style="color: rgb(230, 206, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More than 24 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each month
 * <span style="color: rgb(230, 206, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More than 2 million events created each month
 * <span style="color: rgb(230, 206, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More than 20 million active user groups exist on the site

**International Growth**

 * <span style="color: rgb(44, 161, 2); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More than 35 translations available on the site, with more than 60 in development
 * <span style="color: rgb(44, 161, 2); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More than 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States

**Platform**

 * <span style="color: rgb(35, 9, 195); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More than 660,000 developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
 * <span style="color: rgb(35, 9, 195); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More than 52,000 applications currently available on Facebook Platform
 * <span style="color: rgb(35, 9, 195); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">140 new applications added per day



<span style="color: rgb(24, 255, 0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This chart shows the percentage of people using Facebook from ages 13-34. It seems as if college students are getting the most use out of Facebook this past month. Alumni and working U.S. citizens seem to be the second most active on Facebook. It is surprising that high school students have the least amount of people on Facebook because it is very popular in high schools in the United States. ~ Lauren Crupnick

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