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    The Friendly Face of FACEBOOK

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    Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while studying at Harvard University. He had already created some social networking sites for fellow students. Facebook started as a Harvard-only social network called "Thefacebook" but quickly spread to other universities. By 2006, Facebook opened to anyone with an email address and became a global internet phenomenon, gaining hundreds of millions of users. However, legal issues arose regarding claims that Zuckerberg had copied ideas from another social media site founders were developing.

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    Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while studying at Harvard University. He had already created some social networking sites for fellow students. Facebook started as a Harvard-only social network called "Thefacebook" but quickly spread to other universities. By 2006, Facebook opened to anyone with an email address and became a global internet phenomenon, gaining hundreds of millions of users. However, legal issues arose regarding claims that Zuckerberg had copied ideas from another social media site founders were developing.

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    Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while studying at Harvard University. He had already created some social networking sites for fellow students. Facebook started as a Harvard-only social network called "Thefacebook" but quickly spread to other universities. By 2006, Facebook opened to anyone with an email address and became a global internet phenomenon, gaining hundreds of millions of users. However, legal issues arose regarding claims that Zuckerberg had copied ideas from another social media site founders were developing.

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    The Friendly Face of FACEBOOK

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    Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while studying at Harvard University. He had already created some social networking sites for fellow students. Facebook started as a Harvard-only social network called "Thefacebook" but quickly spread to other universities. By 2006, Facebook opened to anyone with an email address and became a global internet phenomenon, gaining hundreds of millions of users. However, legal issues arose regarding claims that Zuckerberg had copied ideas from another social media site founders were developing.

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    A brief history of Facebook

    Sarah Phillips reports on the development of Facebook, from a


    Harvard social-networking website to a global internet
    phenomenon.

    Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while


    studying psychology at Harvard University. A keen
    computer programmer, Mr Zuckerberg had already
    developed a number of social-networking websites
    for fellow students, including Coursematch, which
    allowed users to view people taking their degree,
    and Facemash, where you could rate people's
    attractiveness.

    In February 2004 Mr Zuckerberg launched "The


    facebook", as it was originally known; the name taken from the sheets of
    paper distributed to freshmen, profiling students and staff. Within 24
    hours, 1,200 Harvard students had signed up, and after one month, over
    half of the undergraduate population had a profile.

    The network was promptly extended to


    other Boston universities, the Ivy League
    and eventually all US universities. It
    became Facebook.com in August 2005
    after the address was purchased for
    $200,000. US high schools could sign up
    from September 2005, then it began to
    spread worldwide, reaching UK
    universities the following month.

    As of September 2006, the network was


    extended beyond educational institutions
    to anyone with a registered email address. The site remains free to join,
    and makes a profit through advertising revenue. Yahoo and Google are
    among companies which have expressed interest in a buy-out, with
    rumoured figures of around $2bn (£975m) being
    discussed. Mr Zuckerberg has so far refused to sell.

    The site's features have continued to develop during


    2007. Users can now give gifts to friends, post free
    classified advertisements and even develop their
    own applications - graffiti and Scrabble are
    particularly popular.
    This month the company announced that the number of registered users
    had reached 30 million, making it the largest social-networking site with
    an education focus.

    Earlier in the year there were rumours that Prince William had
    registered, but it was later revealed to be a mere impostor. The MP
    David Miliband, the radio DJ Jo Whiley, the actor Orlando Bloom, the
    artist Tracey Emin and the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, are
    among confirmed high-profile members.

    This month officials banned a flash-mob-style water fight in Hyde Park,


    organised through Facebook, due to public safety fears. And there was
    further controversy at Oxford as students became aware that university
    authorities were checking their Facebook profiles.

    The legal case against Facebook dates back to September 2004, when
    Divya Narendra, and the brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who
    founded the social-networking site ConnectU, accused Mr Zuckerberg of
    copying their ideas and coding. Mr Zuckerberg had worked as a
    computer programmer for them when they were all at Harvard before
    Facebook was created.

    The case was dismissed due to a technicality in March 2007 but without
    a ruling.

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