History

|The History Of Facebook |
|Facebook is a popular social network  that has grown to rankwith MySpace has. But what is it about Facebook that has special appeal |
|and makes it even more popular than MySpace? What makes Facebook Facebook? And what made it a mega hit?|
|It all got started back in 2003, as Facemash. Mark Zuckerberg created it, along with help of his friends and roommates Chris Hughes |
|and Dustin Moskovitz. Zuckerberg was in hissophomore year at Harvard when opened it up, as a way to get his mind off his crush. |
|Facemash placed photos of undergraduate two side by side, and asking the viewers which one is “hotter”. Thesite was originally only |
|for Harvard, but quickly grew to other colleges, then high schools and finally for anyone over age 13. |
|After it was initially started,it was forwarded to Harvard’s school admins and it was quickly shut down. Zuckerberg was charged and |
|faced expulsion for breaching privacy.|
|Later on, Harvard dropped their charges against Zuckerberg. After the charges were dropped, the following semester he recreated |
|Facemash, andopened The Facebook in February 2004. |
|In 2005, he dropped “the” from the name and URL. Also in September 2005, helaunched the High School version of Facebook. When he |
|first started the high school version, each high school had to be invited before being allowed to join the network. Shortly after ||launching the high school version he started allow companies to have their own networks on Facebook as well. |
|Now a group of  operators, a year after they launched their high...