Facebook (stundum Fésbók á íslensku) er netsamfélag stofnað þann 4. febrúar 2004. Vefsíðan er fullkomlega í eigu Facebook, Inc. Notendur geta tengt í „tengslanetum“ sem tákna borgir, vinnustaði, skóla og svæði til að hafa samskipti við annað fólk. Fólk getur bætt við vinum, sent skilaboð og breytt yfirliti sínu. Mark Zuckerberg stofnaði Facebook þegar var hann námsmaður Harvard-háskóla og í fyrstu var félagsaðild bundin við námsmenn háskólanna. Í dag allir geta skráð sig á Facebook.
Frá og með ágúst 2008 er unnið að því að þýða Facebook á íslensku.
Facebook var upprunalega ætluð fyrir skólafólk en nú notar fólk á öllum aldri Facebook.
Frá og með ágúst 2008 er unnið að því að þýða Facebook á íslensku.
Facebook var upprunalega ætluð fyrir skólafólk en nú notar fólk á öllum aldri Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.[5] The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 300 million active users worldwide.[6]
Facebook has met with some controversy. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria,[7] China[8] and Iran,[9] although Iran later unblocked Facebook in 2009. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service.[10] Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. Facebook is also facing several lawsuits from a number of Zuckerberg's former classmates, who claim that Facebook had stolen their source code and other intellectual property.
A January 2009 Compete.com study has ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.[11]
Facebook has met with some controversy. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria,[7] China[8] and Iran,[9] although Iran later unblocked Facebook in 2009. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service.[10] Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. Facebook is also facing several lawsuits from a number of Zuckerberg's former classmates, who claim that Facebook had stolen their source code and other intellectual property.
A January 2009 Compete.com study has ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.[11]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
