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Founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and four fellow Harvard students.

The largest online social network.

Facebook has 1.23 billion users generating 6 billion likes and 350 million photos every day.

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Facebook filed for a $5 billion IPO on Feb. 1, 2012, and valued the company at $104 billion.

It’s current value is $135 billion.

Profits for 2013 soared above $1.5 billion.

Set to be the fastest company to reach $150 billion.

Facebook and Twitter played a critical role in the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and other Mideast countries by helping activists communicate, mobilize, empower and influence change.

“Facebook represents the first time that the majority of Americans were given publishing rights.”

– Joshua Benton, director of Harvard’s Nieman Lab.

• 15 million companies, businesses and organizations have pages on Facebook.– TED talks–NatGEO–New York Times– Seinfeld – Longform–Popular photography

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/facebook-10-years-of-a-trend-story/2014/02/03/0ac867ea-8d09-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html

Paper:Facebook’s foray into news.

Facebook is trying to create a next-generation search engine with Graph Search and its investment in artificial intelligence and neural networks.

Bring the Internet to the entire planet, making the world flatter and enlisting more people to become members of Facebook.

The number of teen-ager users are leveling off.

It reportedly offered $3 billion in cash to buy Snapchat.

WhatsApp – messaging service Facebook buys for $19 billion in stock.

How journalists use Facebook

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