An essay about a social world
An essay about a social network Facebook is one of the most important social network today, and one of the most popular sites from the internet. Social network sites (SNSs) were always popular and people seemed to be attracted by the idea of creating a profile where they can put information about them and keep in contact with their friends, or even look for dates, jobs and many others. But with Facebook, the idea of a social network site became much more important, because it grew so big that it became a link that people accessed every day, and in a way or another, it is an important thing in many people lives. It all started with the young Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates. In the beginning it was called Facemash, which was comparable to Hot or Not, a website where Harvard’s students could vote between two pictures of girls from college, deciding which one was hotter. The site was created with the help of hacking, and this was the reason why it was shut down. After this failure, Mark tried a new site that was called thefacebook.com, but he was acused of stealing the idea from three Hardvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Divya Narendra and Tyler Winklevoos, who asked him to help them create HarvardConnections .com that was based on a similar idea as Facebook. This led to a lawsuit that became huge and created a lot of problems with time. But still, nothing stopped the growing of Facebook. Soon, it was opened to other big colleges and even then it was easily noticeable that the site had something extremely addictive. In 2005, Mark launched a high-school version of Facebook and soon after that the membership was expanded to employees of several companies. Facebook was officially opened to everyone of age 13 and older with a valid email address. The value of the site constantly grew and most of the important companies wanted a share of it. The number of people that had a Facebook profile increased shockingly. If in august 2008 there were 100
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