ABOUT FACE BOOK

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Facebook, Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	Cambridge, Massachusetts (February 4, 2004)[1]
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California Dublin, Ireland (international headquarters for Europe, Africa, Middle East)
Key people	Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder Sheryl Sandberg, COO Matt Cohler, VP of Product Management Chris Hughes, Co-founder
Revenue	▲ 300 million USD (2008 est.)[2]
Employees	700 (November 2008)[3]
Website	facebook.com
Type of site	Social network service
Advertising	Banner ads, referral marketing
Registration	Required
Available in	Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (American), English (British), English (Pirate), Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian (bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish (Castilian), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Welsh
Launched	February 2004

Facebook, formerly Thefacebook, is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.^[1] Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.^[4] Website 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 175 million active users worldwide.