Facebook Inc. is the sole and private owner of Facebook.com, the popular social networking website. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg (founder and CEO), a computer science student at Harvard University launched Facebook from his dorm-room for the purposes of social networking within Harvard. As its popularity increased, it spread to other American Universities, mostly due to social contact with Harvard. Eventually Facebook began to be used all over the United States and the world, no longer confined to those in university, people of all ages above 13 years began to use it. As of January 2009, over 200 million people currently use Facebook. As of 2008, the estimated yearly revenue of Facebook Inc. was $300million.
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Facebook is available in 51 languages – 52 if ‘Pirate English’ is to be considered a language
In late 2008, it was ruled by the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory that Facebook is a valid platform on which to serve legally binding summons’ to defendants
Facebook has been banned intermittently in both Syria and Iran.
Mark Zuckerberg never graduated from Harvard. After his second year and the launch of Facebook, he moved to California to run the growing company.
The international headquarters of Facebook Inc. is in Dublin, Ireland
Facebook is the most popular social networking website in the world, but takes second place in the United States after MySpace
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