Case Study

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004. An earlier inspiration for Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter academy, the prep school from which Zuckerberg graduated in 2002. It published its own student directory, “The Photo Address Book,” which students referred to as “The Facebook.” Such photo directories were an important part of the student social experience at many private schools. With them, students were able to list attributes such as their class years, their proximities to friends, and their telephone number.
Once at college, Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a "Harvard thing" until Zuckerberg decided to spread it to other schools, enlisting the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They first started it at Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, New York University, Cornell, Brown, and Yale, and then at other schools that had social contacts with Harvard.
Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California, with Moskovitz and some friends. They leased a small house that served as an office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel who invested in the company. They got their first office in mid-2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard but eventually decided to remain in California^. They had already turned down offers by major corporations to buy out Facebook. In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning:

It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.

He restated these same goals to Wired magazine in 2010: "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open." Earlier, in April 2009, Zuckerberg sought the advice of former Netscape CFO Peter Currie about financing strategies for Facebook.
On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the company reached the 500 million-user mark.^[31] When asked whether Facebook could earn more income from advertising as a result of its phenomenal growth, he explained:

I guess we could ... If you look at how much of our page is taken up with ads compared to the average search query. The average for us is a little less than 10 percent of the pages and the average for search is about 20 percent taken up with ads ... That’s the simplest thing we could do. But we aren’t like that. We make enough money. Right, I mean, we are keeping things running; we are growing at the rate we want to.

In 2010, Stephen Levy, who authored the 1984 book Hackers:Heroes of the Computer Revolution, wrote that Zuckerberg "clearly thinks of himself as a hacker." Zuckerberg said that "it's OK to break things" "to make them better." Facebook instituted "hackathons" held every six to eight weeks where participants would have one night to conceive of and complete a project. The company provided music, food, and beer at the hackathons, and many Facebook staff members, including Zuckerberg, regularly attended. "The idea is that you can build something really good in a night", Zuckerberg told Levy. "And that's part of the personality of Facebook now ... It's definitely very core to my personality."
Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information Age".^[34] Zuckerberg ranked number 23 on the Vanity Fair 100 list in 2009.^[35] In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in New Statesman's annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures.

Inspirational Use Of Facebook.

This post is about some inspirational uses of facebook.

1)Facebook allows us to keep in touch with our relatives or friends staying far away from us or in another country.

2)Facebook allows us to know what our friends are up to and the evnts they participated in.

3)Facebook has free online games that allow us to kill our boredom when we're bored.

4)Facebook has celebrities fanpage which allow us to know the most recent updates about them.

Cyber Wellness Tips!!!

In this post,I'll be posting about some tips on cyber wellness.:))

1>>>People traditionally provide personal details about their lives on Facebook. As a result, many females that provide their confidential details are becoming victims of anonymous online stalkers.So,do not share any personal information online.

2>>>When a stranger randomly added you,don't accept the friend request as you do not know whether they are good or bad.

3>>>Do not talk to anyone you do not know.Even if you talk to them,do not reveal your personal information.

4>>>Do not meet up with the strangers you talk with online.they might be posers when you meet up with them,they might kidnap you or even rape you.XD

So that's all!maybe there's moreO.Onot posting anymore already.If you want to know more,go google it;)

DANGERS OF FACEBOOK!! :O

Ok,now,i'm sharing with you about the dangers of using facebook.

1.Facebook has a lack of privacy.
Example:
-When you share photo galleries with your friends, their friends and associates will also be able to view what you've posted.

2.Facebook accounts also tend to turn up during searches on search engines like http://www.google.com/ .

3.Facebook are as addictive as drugs as people tend to fall into the habit of continuously checking their account for updates, sometimes up to several times a day.

4.People tend to become even more lazy.
-people will start using facebook instead of meeting up with friends to have a chat.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT FB:D

HAHA, ok, I'm gonna share in this post about the interesting facts about facebook~

1.Did you know that twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss claim Zuckerberg stole their idea after they hired him to do programming for their own site, Harvard Connect (ConnectU). The case was settled for an undisclosed sum. Others, such as fellow student, Aaron Greenspan, also claim they invented Facebook.:)

2.In 2003, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash, where he placed photos of undergraduates side by side so viewers could rank which one was “hotter.” Zuckerberg would later turn Facemash into the now ubiquitous Facebook.:)

3.Mark Zuckerberg, the creator/owner of Facebook, is the world’s youngest billionaire, worth 1.5 billion.:)

4.In September 2009,Mark Zuckerberg announced for the first time that Facebook was cash flow positive, meaning Facebook made more money that it spent.:)