The founder of Facebook is mark zuckerberg, a Harvard student who graduated from Adesley High School. Initially, the registration of this website was limited to students of Harvard University. In the following two months, the enrollment scope was expanded to other universities in Boston area (such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology), as well as Stanford University, new york University, Northwest University and all famous Ivy League schools. The next year, many other schools were invited to join. Finally, anyone who has a university suffix mailbox all over the world (for example. Edu, Britain, etc. ) you can sign up. After that, social networks of high schools and companies can also be established on Facebook. From September 1 1 date, 2006, any user can join by entering a valid email address and age. Users can choose to join one or more networks, such as middle schools, companies or regions.
According to the data in July 2007, Facebook has the largest number of users: among all websites mainly serving college students, there are 34 million active users (including non-university network users). From September 2006 to September 2007, the ranking of this website in the United States rose from 60th to 7th. At the same time, Facebook is the number one photo sharing website in the United States, uploading 8.5 million photos every day. This even surpasses other specialized photo sharing websites, such as Flickr.
The name of Facebook website comes from the traditional paper "roster". Usually, American universities and preparatory schools will distribute this "roster" containing all members of the school community to freshmen and faculty to help them get to know other members of the school.