Facebook was launched in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg
and his roommates while he was in university. Mark Zuckerberg aged thirty one
now, is on the track to being one of the world’s richest people. He has been
working with computers since he was as young as twelve years of age when he set
up a messaging program known as Zucknet for his dad in his dad’s dental office.
It
is the most successful social media website at the moment with about 1.4
billion users all around the world today. It is estimated that about 42% of these users
are male while the remaining 58% are female. Since smart phones have come into
use this had a huge impact on the use of Facebook. Now the average Facebook
user would spend up to forty minutes a day using Facebook on their smartphones.
It is used for many different things such as, checking in on the latest
celebrities, updating you status or checking out what your friends are up and
it can also be used to contact friends all around the world.
Facebook is a hugely successful website and is the largest
social media website in the world and was valued in 2012 of worth over one
hundred billion dollars. Although Facebook is a very good site, it can cause a
lot of problems, such as bullying, a survey was done and it showed that 66% of
teenage girls that use Facebook have claimed of being bullied or harassed
online on Facebook.
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