Who Invented Facebook

Facebook is one the most popular websites that offers social networking today with more than 500 million users around the world. Online social networking is just like how like-minded people come together for some activities and form groups and have discussions, share photographs, etc. Similarly, a website enables all these activities by various applications, like providing forums, photo sharing options, video uploading, keeping a track on all the happenings in their formed-communities, people they have approved to be linked to, etc. Online gaming is one of the big USPs of Facebook, and indeed games like Farmville and Mafia Wars have lured many users to the site. Similarly, Facebook also offers a platform for business. Compared with its competitors, like My Space, Orkut and Twitter, Facebook is way ahead, both in terms of popularity as well as users. Before we take a look at who invented Facebook and when, let's see how this popular website came into being.

The History of Facebook

Coming to the question of who invented Facebook and why, it would be interesting to know that initially Facebook was just meant for students to find and contact fellow students. It was meant to serve the purpose of keeping track of who was new in college to getting in touch with each other for project purposes. It was an online directory and was founded on the Harvard University campus. However, as soon it was launched, almost two-third of total students registered themselves on Facebook. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, along with Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz and Eduardo Saverin, who helped in the launch of the site, saw the response, and realized that this system could generate great revenue. To pursue this, Mark dropped out of Harvard and got into making Facebook a world wide accessible site to its current stand of being one of the top social networking sites throughout the world.

Today, Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world, with every one person in fourteen using it. It is also the second most popular site in US, and is worth billions of dollars. In barely 6 years, from its launch in 2004 as an online college directory, to its rise to the most popular social networking site in the world, Facebook has been a success story for the four co-founders, making them all billionaires.