History Today | 04/02/2015: Facebook Has Aged 11 Years

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As one of the popular social media, Facebook was first created by Mark Zuckerberg in February 4, 2004. The purpose of the first Facebook itself is to share information and become a virtual buddy for students at Harvard University - a lecture Zuckerberg.



Beginning launched, Facebook is just a software and was limited to Harvard students communication media. Even then the number of existing friendship thefacebook.com site is still limited. Compiled from various sources, Zuckerberg allegedly stole the idea of making up of the site HarvardConnection.com. However, he continued to develop up until now.

Zuckerberg took Eduardo Saverin to develop business and promotion, Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic), and another friend, Chris Huhges. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale. This expansion continues to all Ivy League schools, before finally reaching some universities in Canada. Recorded until today Facebook is still the most popular Social Media with more than 1 billion active users.