What’s on your mind?

IDEA No 75

SOCIAL NETWORKING

With a billion active users, Facebook is the largest human network the world has ever known. It is The Social Network.

Thefacebook.com launched in February 2004, an online version of Harvard’s student directory. Mark Zuckerberg said at the time, ‘Everyone’s been talking a lot about a universal face book within Harvard. I think it’s kind of silly that it would take the University a couple of years to get around to it as I can do it better than they can, and I can do it in a week.’ Within 24 hours there were over 1,000 sign-ups. Within the first month, more than half the students at Harvard had registered.

In 2005, Facebook became available to every college student in the US. In September 2006, ...

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