The company also estimates that it has about 890 million daily active users.
71% of Internet users are Facebook users.
It is blocked in North Korea and most of China.
There are more than 9,100 employees at Facebook, and it is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
Facebook introduced words such as “friending” to the lexicon.
Timeline:
February 4, 2004 – “The Facebook” is launched by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin at Harvard University.
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October 2012 – Facebook reaches one billion users.
June 2013 – Leaker Edward Snowden releases documents on the NSA’s Prism program. Snowden claims that the NSA has monitored the users of Facebook and other internet companies. Facebook denies cooperating with the NSA.
February 19, 2014 – Facebook announces that it is purchasing mobile messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion.
March 25, 2014 – Facebook announces that it is purchasing virtual reality company Oculus VR, Inc. for $2 billion.
June 17, 2014 – A study by researchers at Cornell, the University of Southern California San Francisco and Facebook, and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science reveals that for one week in early 2012, Facebook changed the content mix in the news feed of approximately 690,000 users and manipulated the content to gauge the user’s emotional response. According to Facebook, the experiment worked. However, many users react with anger at what they say is a dangerous social experiment.
