Facebook is a social utility that connects people with Friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet

Anyone can join Facebook:

All that's needed to join Facebook is a valid email address. To connect with coworkers or classmates, use your school or work email address to register. Once you register, join a regional network to connect with the people in your area.

Discover the people around you:

Facebook is made up of many Networks, each based around a company, region, or school. join the networks that reflect your real-life communities to learn more about the people who work, live, or study around you.

Do more:

Facebook's Platform enables anyone, anywhere, to build complete applications that you can choose to use. The possibilities are endless. Define your experience on Facebook by choosing applications that are useful and relevant to your world.

Keep it private:

At Facebook, we believe that people should have control over how they share their information and who can see it. People can only see the profiles of confirmed Friends and the people in their Networks. You can use our privacy settings at any time to control who can see what on Facebook.

Facebook is similar to Myspace, and is a social networking website. The site is for everyone, including businesses, people at high school, and for People who live in certain areas, having been originally exclusive to university students and staff.

It is Free to register with Facebook. The site works similar to Myspace in the way that users can upload photos, send public and private messages, list their interests and build up Friends. The site has been noted for its job opportunities, as employers will look at users’ profiles.

Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, and after the site spread to other schools, it had more then one million registered users by December 2004.

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Facebook’s simplified navigation gives users easy access to core site functions and applications. Profile, Friends, Networks and Inbox pages core to the user experience on Facebook – have a prominent place at the top of the user’s profile page. Facebook applications – Photos, Notes, Groups, Events and Posted items – are displayed on the left side bar, along with any third-party applications a user has added to their account.

Technology

Facebook is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world, and one of the largest MySQL installations anywhere, running thousands of databases. Facebook has built a lightweight but powerful multi-language RPC framework that allows the company to seamlessly and easily tie together subsystems written in any language, running on any platform.

The company is the largest user in the world of memcached, an open-source caching system, and has created a custom-built search engine serving millions of queries a day, completely distributed and entirely in-memory, with real-time updates.

Platform:

Facebook Platform is a development platform that enables companies and engineers to deeply integrate with the Facebook website and gain access to millions of users through the social graph. More than 50 percent of Facebook users return to the site each day, providing unparalleled distribution potential for applications and the opportunity to build a business that is highly relevant to people’s lives. More information can be found at .

Privacy

Facebook has led the industry in giving people tools to control the information they share and with whom they choose to share it. User privacy has always been a top priority for the company, which has worked with such organizations as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and WiredSafety. Facebook is TrustE certified.

Board

Members: Mark Zuckerberg, Jim Breyer (Accel Partners), and Peter Thiel; Observer: David Sze (Greylock Partners); Observer: Paul Madera (Meritech)

Users

49 million active (users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days)