About Facebook

About Facebookb

On May 15 2006 John Cassidy from the New Yorker took a long look at the phenomenon of Facebook, the social networking website created by Mark Zuckerberg while at Harvard University.


The article looks at the life of Zuckerberg and the reasons for creating Facebook, initially as a way of connecting Harvard University students. From there Facebook was made available to students at Columbia, Yale, and Stanford and then to forty other schools in June 2006. By then there were over one hundred and fifty thousand users. From there Facebook grew to what is now, as of October 2007, over forty seven million users.


Racked with concerns about privacy, prospects for future growth, lawsuits relating to the origins of the project, facebook contiues to attract 150,000 new users a day, and is connecting people better than any other social networking site at the moment.


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