QUIEN CREO EL FACEBOOK PERO CON TRADUCCION EN INGLES?

Facebookis an onlinesocial networking serviceheadquartered inMenlo Park, California.

Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, byMark Zuckerbergwith hisHarvard Collegeroommates and fellow studentsEduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin MoskovitzandChris Hughes.

[8][9]The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, theIvy League, andStanford University.

It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high - school students.

Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old was allowed to become a registered user of the website, though the age requirement may be higher depending on applicable local laws.

[10]Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to it by American universities' students.

[11]After registering to use the site, users can create auser profile, add other users as"friends", exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos and receive notifications when others update their profiles.

Additionally, users may join common - interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends".

Facebook had over1.

18 billion monthly active usersas of August 2015.

Because of the large volume of data users submit to the service, Facebook has come under scrutiny for their privacy policies.

Facebook, Inc.

Held itsinitial public offeringin February 2012 and began selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an original peak market capitalization of $104 billion.

On July 13, 2015, Facebook became the fastest company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to reach a market cap of $250 billion.

Following its Q3 earnings call in 2015, Facebook's market cap soared past $300billion.