[/caption]Facebook has become a very famous social networking service which was launched in February
2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook Inc. As of February 2012, Facebook has more than 845 million active users. It is one of the platforms where people from different places n different interests get to interact n knw people.. It develops our social skills. The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.The Web site's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in theBoston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. Facebook can also be accessed by mobiles where an official Facebook application is available for the operating systems Android, iOS, and webOS. Nokia and Research In Motion both provide Facebook applications for their own mobile devices. More than 425 million active users access Facebook through mobile devices across 200 mobile operators in 60 countries.
Since April 2011 Facebook users have had the ability to make live voice calls via Facebook Chat, allowing users to chat with others from all over the world. This feature, which is provided free through T-Mobile's new Bobsled service, lets the user add voice to the current Facebook Chat as well as leave voice messages on Facebook. On July 6, 2011, Facebook launched its video calling services using Skype as its technology partner. It allows one to one calling using a Skype Rest API. On September 14, 2011, Facebook launched a Subscribe button. The feature allows for users to follow public updates, and these are the people most often broadcasting their ideas. There were major modifications that the site released on September 22, 2011. As reported by TechCrunch on February 15th 2012, Facebook is introducing ‘Verified Account’ concept like that of Twitter & Google+. Though as of 3rd March 2012, verified accounts don’t get any badges or denotations, but such accounts will get more priority in ‘Subscription Suggestions’ of Facebook on March 6, 2012, Facebook officially launched its Messenger for Windows.
The success of facebook has been a really great achievement.. Each day a lot of people get logged in to Fb (as it is now called) and d success of facebook has created a great history.
Hope d wonderful site keeps on creating more history in days coming.
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