people want to share and stay connected
with their friends and the people around
them when people have control over what
they share they’re comfortable sharing
more when people share more the world
becomes more open and connected it is
ruined careers is banned in certain
countries and is accused of invading the
privacy of its users it is also one of
the most popular sites on the internet
so I just want to say thanks you’ve all
made Facebook what it is today
you really have created a worldwide
movement welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be learning more about the
history of Facebook Facebook was founded
in February 2004 by Harvard roommates
Mark Zuckerberg Dustin Moskovitz Chris
Hughes and Eduardo Saverin originally
designed to help people communicate
effectively online Facebook evolved to
become a forum for information sharing
as well today Facebook is by far the
largest image sharing site in the world
initially only offered to Harvard
students it wasn’t long before Facebook
expanded to Stanford Columbia Yale and
many other universities across the u.s.
and Canada it was finally made available
to the general population in September
2006
evolving rapidly the site launched
Facebook platform in 2007 this allowed
developers to create applications on
Facebook that work together with the
site’s features 2007 also saw Facebook
expand their search partnership with
Microsoft by 2008 the site launched
Facebook Connect a service that allowed
users to sign in to various sites across
the web using their Facebook account
credentials this project both simplified
navigation and increased engagement
however it also added to the criticism
of Facebook’s ever-growing reach and
influence since then Facebook has become
the largest social networking site in
the world surpassing rival myspace in
April of 2008 by August of 2010 Facebook
leapfrog over Google as the property on
which users spent the most time this
year also marked another milestone for
Facebook Crossing 500 million users with
no signs of slowing down half a billion
is a nice number but the number isn’t
what really matters here what matters
are all of the stories we hear from all
of you about the impact your connections
have had on your lives Mark Zuckerberg
was the last founding member to remain
with a
book a special clause in his contract
allows him to stay on a CEO for as long
as he chooses as of 2010 the wonder kid
owned more than a quarter of Facebook
stock and controlled three of five board
seats his success did come at a price
however in 2007 a lawsuit was filed
against Facebook and Zuckerberg by three
Harvard classmates Divya Narendra and
twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss the
three alleged that the idea and source
code for Facebook was in fact stolen
from them when they had hired a young
Zuckerberg to build their website called
Harvard connection the case was settled
with Facebook agreeing to pay 65 million
dollars to the trio over the years
various startups have attempted to steal
Facebook’s Thunder sites like Twitter
and Foursquare have done little to
negatively impact Facebook’s popularity
online however they have influenced
Zuckerberg to update functions and add
features to lose celebrities and
organizations and we can create a web
that is more social personalized smarter
and semantically aware as well as
satisfy a verage user needs the web is
gonna get a whole lot better despite
widespread criticism Facebook is
considered one of the best tech
companies to work for with the promise
of an IPO paio proving the site and it’s
mythology have taken on a life of their
own a 2010 film called the social
network chronicled the early days of the
company and its meteoric rise we’re
being accused of intentionally breaching
security violating copyrights
privacy however the film also placed the
company under the spotlight as never
before part fact Park dramatization the
film did nothing more than solidify
Facebook’s
and Mark Zuckerberg respective places in
the history books on a personal note I
just turned 26 a few days ago as I look
back to when I started Facebook I’m
amazed at how it’s evolved and have so
many of you are using it to stay
connected all around the world
with their friends and the people around
them when people have control over what
they share they’re comfortable sharing
more when people share more the world
becomes more open and connected it is
ruined careers is banned in certain
countries and is accused of invading the
privacy of its users it is also one of
the most popular sites on the internet
so I just want to say thanks you’ve all
made Facebook what it is today
you really have created a worldwide
movement welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be learning more about the
history of Facebook Facebook was founded
in February 2004 by Harvard roommates
Mark Zuckerberg Dustin Moskovitz Chris
Hughes and Eduardo Saverin originally
designed to help people communicate
effectively online Facebook evolved to
become a forum for information sharing
as well today Facebook is by far the
largest image sharing site in the world
initially only offered to Harvard
students it wasn’t long before Facebook
expanded to Stanford Columbia Yale and
many other universities across the u.s.
and Canada it was finally made available
to the general population in September
2006
evolving rapidly the site launched
Facebook platform in 2007 this allowed
developers to create applications on
Facebook that work together with the
site’s features 2007 also saw Facebook
expand their search partnership with
Microsoft by 2008 the site launched
Facebook Connect a service that allowed
users to sign in to various sites across
the web using their Facebook account
credentials this project both simplified
navigation and increased engagement
however it also added to the criticism
of Facebook’s ever-growing reach and
influence since then Facebook has become
the largest social networking site in
the world surpassing rival myspace in
April of 2008 by August of 2010 Facebook
leapfrog over Google as the property on
which users spent the most time this
year also marked another milestone for
Facebook Crossing 500 million users with
no signs of slowing down half a billion
is a nice number but the number isn’t
what really matters here what matters
are all of the stories we hear from all
of you about the impact your connections
have had on your lives Mark Zuckerberg
was the last founding member to remain
with a
book a special clause in his contract
allows him to stay on a CEO for as long
as he chooses as of 2010 the wonder kid
owned more than a quarter of Facebook
stock and controlled three of five board
seats his success did come at a price
however in 2007 a lawsuit was filed
against Facebook and Zuckerberg by three
Harvard classmates Divya Narendra and
twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss the
three alleged that the idea and source
code for Facebook was in fact stolen
from them when they had hired a young
Zuckerberg to build their website called
Harvard connection the case was settled
with Facebook agreeing to pay 65 million
dollars to the trio over the years
various startups have attempted to steal
Facebook’s Thunder sites like Twitter
and Foursquare have done little to
negatively impact Facebook’s popularity
online however they have influenced
Zuckerberg to update functions and add
features to lose celebrities and
organizations and we can create a web
that is more social personalized smarter
and semantically aware as well as
satisfy a verage user needs the web is
gonna get a whole lot better despite
widespread criticism Facebook is
considered one of the best tech
companies to work for with the promise
of an IPO paio proving the site and it’s
mythology have taken on a life of their
own a 2010 film called the social
network chronicled the early days of the
company and its meteoric rise we’re
being accused of intentionally breaching
security violating copyrights
privacy however the film also placed the
company under the spotlight as never
before part fact Park dramatization the
film did nothing more than solidify
Facebook’s
and Mark Zuckerberg respective places in
the history books on a personal note I
just turned 26 a few days ago as I look
back to when I started Facebook I’m
amazed at how it’s evolved and have so
many of you are using it to stay
connected all around the world
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