The History of Facebook

The creator of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard University. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

The idea of creating a Web-based community where people share his tastes and feelings is not new. And David Bohnett, founder of GeoCities, had hatched in the late 1980s. Geocities was successful in 1990 in 1998 was the third most viewed site on the Web, but failed to consolidate after it was acquired by Yahoo!.

Facebook open competition for space between successful companies like Google and MySpace, so it is facing major challenges to grow and develop. One strategy has been to open Zuckerberg Facebook platform to other developers.

Facebook's strength lies in the social network of 90 million users have created, connections based on real people. It has now launched Facebook in Spanish, extending not only to persons of a specific social class, but is covering a range social. Almost anyone with basic computer skills can access this world of virtual communities.

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Grecia Barrera