Bit of History :)

When you see the word “Social Media”, you would have mentally gone to your Facebook profile or your Twitter account for an instance. Well, that’s how social media has taken control over our lives. In my previous blog posts, I talked about various social networking sites and how to advertise on them along with the benefits. So now I thought of giving you some interesting historical information on your favorite social networking site, Facebook. 

History of Facebook

As we all know, Facebook is the biggest social network in the world today connecting billions of people around the globe. Anyone who has a valid email address could be a member or register into Facebook. From the very first moment you logged in, you could create a profile and share everything with your desired friends. Well, I know you don't need further information  on Facebook but, do you know how it first started? Let’s go down the memory lane of Facebook. 

Theoretically, it was started by Mark Zuckerberg and 3 of his colleagues (Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes) on 23rd October 2003 and the website was limited to Harvard students only. Then it was expanded to the students of other colleges in Boston as well. It was originally named as “facemash.com” and allowed to compare two student pictures side-by-side to let them choose who was "hot" and who was "not" hot. He collected the photos from hacking into the database of Harvard. However, it was shut down due to several legal reasons.

On the 11th of January 2004, Zuckerberg registered the domain as "thefacebook.com". He has publicly revealed that he got inspired from the previous site, facemash.com to create such a social networking site. After creating this site, they opened it to registrations. Surprisingly, between 1200 to 1500 people got registered within 24 hours proving the fact that they love to interact with their friends. From that day onwards, Facebook started to grow rapidly with the help of many investors including PayPal. Well, that's the history of Facebook in a nut shell.

Hope you liked it :)

You could search for more detailed version of the history in the internet.

Source: Wikipedia