Facebook

By pehesara

  • He created Facemash.

    Mark Zuckerberg created Facemash to compare people on his campus while going to Harvard. He was charged with breaching privacy but the charges were later dropped.
  • He coded TheFacebook for students at Harvard.

    He coded TheFacebook for students at Harvard.

    He created TheFacebook after Facemash failed, as a student directory for students at Harvard.

  • Facebook was founded on February, 2004.

    Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and a couple of his colleagues from Harvard on February 4, 2004 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  • Sean Parker became company president.

    Entrepreneur Sean Parker who was Mark's long-time informal adviser became president of the company mid-year.

  • They moved their headquarters to California.

    In June they moved their company headquarters to Palo Alto, California.
  • They recieved their first investment.

    They recieved their first investment.

    They received their first investment later that month from PayPal co-founder Peter Theil that month too.
  • They changed their name.

    They changed their name.

    They also dropped the "the' in their name so it was just Facebook after buying the title from the AboutFace Corporation for $200,000 USD.

  • Facebook was open to the public.

    On September 26, Facebook opened to the general public, to anyone who was 13 years or older and had a valid email address.

  • Microsoft bought shares in Facebook.

    Microsoft got a 1.6% share in Facebook for $240 million, this gave Facebook a net worth of $15 billion.

  • Some of his colleagues from Harvard sue Mark.

    Three Harvard seniors sue Mark saying that they got tricked by him into thinking that he was helping them build a website for their university, when all he was doing was building off their ideas to create his own product.
  • They moved their headquarters.

    They moved their headquarters.

    Facebook announced that they would move their international head quarters to Dublin, Ireland.

  • Facebook became the most used social media platform in the world.

    in January, Complete.com stated that Facebook was the most used social media platform in the world, and reached 500 million users in July of next year.

  • They moved their head quarters to Menlo Park, California.

    In February, they said that they were going to move they head quarters back to California to the old Sun Microsystems campus.

  • Facebook boosted cyber security.

    In March, Facebook was reported to be deleting 20,000 profiles a day that had inappropriate content on it.

  • Facebook reached 1 billion users.

    In October, Facebook reached 1 billion active monthly users.
  • Facebook bought Instagram.

    Facebook bought Instagram.

    In April, they bought Instagram for 1 billion dollars in money and also stock.
  • Facebook bought WhatsApp.

    Facebook bought WhatsApp.

    They bought WhatApp for $19 in cash and stock in February.
  • Facebook got rid of false news.

    Facebook got rid of false news.

    Facebook changed their algorithm to catch false news and delete it at the beginning of 2015.