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Facebook, Inc.
[est. February 2004]
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"The amount of sharing by a Facebook user roughly doubles each year.”
— {billionaire Mark} Zuckerberg's Law
Facebook launched in February 2004; membership reached 100 million users in August 2008 and 500 million users in July 2010;
Mark Zuckerberg proudly announced having reached one billion members on 4 October 2012.
"Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine." — internet activist Richard M. Stallman
More than 90% of Americans spend 15-18 hours per month on Facebook (i.e. two full work days).
Americans spend more time on Facebook than on every other social network combined. (4/2016)
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In February 2011, Facebook purchased the 57-acre, ten-building former campus of Sun Microsystems in Menlo Park, and completed the move from its longtime location/s in Palo Alto by December 2011. In September 2012, architect Frank Gehry showed Facebook execs his free-form design for the 22-acre Facebook West office building across the road that is expected to complete in 2015.
Why is Facebook blue? According to The New Yorker Magazine, the reason is simple: It's because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind.
Facebook is quite the internet nag: If you don't log in for a day or two, Facebook will send as many as three 'reminder' emails in a day, telling you that you are missing lots of activity (such as that lone Friend Request from a stranger that showed up a week ago).
Facebook [est. Feb 2004] website
Facebook main entry at Wikipedia
Facebook, Inc. Class A Common Stock Quote & Summary Data at NASDAQ
 | billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
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co-founder of F.W.D. [est. 2013] for Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Mark Zuckerberg's official Facebook account is followed by over 30 million people.
"The Connector: How Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Rewired Our World and Changed The Way We Live - A Short Biography
of TIME's 2010 Person of The Year" [17 Dec 2010] by Lev Grossman & TIME managing editor Richard Stengel
http://www.amazon.com/Connector-Facebooks-Zuckerberg-biography-ebook/dp/B003YL4LGG/
Success Magazine cover article (April 2011) on Mark Zuckerberg and 'The Facebook Age'
"Mark Zuckerberg: Inside Facebook" TV movie [2011] /tt2265427/
"Mark Zuckerberg: Ten Lessons In Leadership" [3/2012] by Michael Essany
http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Zuckerberg-Lessons-Leadership-ebook/dp/B007HJDG4Y/
"60 Minutes: The Face Behind Facebook" [Jan 2008]
http://www.amazon.com/60-Minutes-January-13-2008/dp/B0012BUX3K/
Other Execs
 | "Casa Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg, His Friends, and The Mystique of The House That Launched Them" [2011] by Judy P. Fusco, with Kevin Paterson, Photographs by Mark Harper Author is interesting in her own right, and oh by the way, happens to be the Silicon Valley landlord who gave the kids launching a start-up called Facebook a break on their first physical office space. M.J. Distribution 8x5¼ pb [12/2011] out of print/used |
Nicolas Franchet
has long worked as Facebook’s global head of retail & e-commerce
co-founder Chris Hughes
co-founder Andrew McCollum
co-founder Dustin Moskovitz
worked at Facebook from 2/2004 to 10/2008
co-founded Asana in 10/2008
wife former Wall Street Journal reporter Cari Tuna Moskovitz - married in 2013
Good Ventures [est. 2011] philanthropy foundation
 | Sheryl Kara Sandberg {Goldberg}
former chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, 1996-2001 former VP Global Online Sales & Operations at Google, 2001-2008 COO at Facebook since March 2008; first woman on board of directors (6/2012) Facebook page {broken?} • entry at Wikipedia listed on TIME 100 for 2012; TIME cover story March 2013
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 | "Sheryl Sandberg: The Biography" for Kindle [2012] by Adrienne Fenderson very lightweight work, a mere 15 pages on Kindle Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [2/2012] for $2.99 |
 | "Lean In: Women, Work, and The Will To Lead" [2013] by Sheryl Sandberg Amazon Best Book of the Month, plus cover story on TIME Magazine (both March 2013) Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [3/2013] for $4.99 Knopf 9½x6 hardcover [3/2013] for $14.97 Random House Audio UNABR audio CD read by Elisa Donovan [3/2013] for $24.84 |
The Corporation
Facebook [est. Feb 2004] website
there is no separate 'Facebook corporate' website or subsite (2013)
Facebook main entry at Wikipedia
In 2008, Facebook agreed to pay Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss $65 million to settle their claims that Zuckerberg
stole the idea for Facebook from them and a third person at Harvard.
Announced 4/2012: Facebook, Inc. paid $1 billion for San Francisco-based mobile photo-sharing service Instagram [est. 2010]; the final deal closed at $715M.
Announced 6/2012: Facebook, Inc. paid an unknown amount for Karma {website URL www.getKarma.com}, a mobile commerce company that makes social gifting apps; by partnering with brands, Karma offers a catalog of products/gift ideas. After a product has been selected, the 'gifter' can pick and personalize a card to go with that gift; Karma then notifies the recipient that a gift is coming (via a text message, e-mail, or Facebook); once that message has been received, the recipient can further personalize the gift, swap it for another product, or even exchange it for a charitable donation; once that decision has been made, the recipient then enters their address and Karma ships it.
Announced 6/2012: Facebook purchased Israeli company Face {placeholder website www.face.com} for an estimated $60M.
Announced 4/2013: Facebook purchased software company Parse {website URL www.parse.com}, which produces a backend for mobile apps that already
covers Android, iOS, JavaScript, OS X, and Windows 8 & Windows Phone; Parse's offices were located near the Ferry Building in San Francisco;
they have since moved to Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, California.
Announced 2/2014: Facebook purchased software company WhatsApp [est. 2009] based in Mountain View, California for $19B.
Announced 3/2014: Facebook purchased 3-D virtual reality hardware company Oculus VR [est.2012] based in Irvine, California for $2B.
Announced 7/2014: Facebook purchased video advertising company LiveRail [est. 2007] based in San Francisco, California for $500M.
Divisions and Services
Facebook Gifts charges a small fee to send gift cards to friends.
Mid-2014: Facebook is testing a 'BUY' button for shopping via ads on Facebook.
![logo for 'Internet.org by Facebook' [est. 2013]](images/FacebookInternetOrg.jpg) | "Internet.org by Facebook" [est. 2013]
A consortium of Facebook and seven American mobile telephone companies that says that they want to provide low-cost access to the internet for people in Third World countries. Controversy arises because Internet.org is also involved in anti-net neutrality legislation (with Airtel, Voda & TRAI) in India {see 23-page extract from the full 117-page application} official website • entry at Wikipedia |
Books About Facebook, Inc.
search books on keyword 'facebook' at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Dummies-Carolyn-Abram/dp/1118095626/
http://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Dummies-Computer-Tech/dp/1118633121/
"The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of The Company That Is Connecting The World"
[S&S 6/2010] by David Kirkpatrick
http://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Effect-Inside-Company-Connecting/dp/1439102112/
http://www.amazon.com/The-Facebook-Effect-Company-Connecting/dp/1439102120/
"Facebook and Philosophy: What's On Your Mind?" ((Oct 1, 2010) by D. E. Wittkower
http://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Philosophy-Whats-Popular-Culture/dp/0812696751/
"Inside Facebook" article [Fortune mag] by Miguel Helft & Jessi Hempel
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Facebook-ebook/dp/B007FIQW4I/
"Tales From Facebook" (Apr 19, 2011) by Daniel Miller
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Facebook-Daniel-Miller/dp/0745652107/
"Facebook Diaries" [Jun 24, 2011] by Brian Shell
http://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Diaries-ebook/dp/B00585CG54/
"Facebook Companion [Paperback] by Matthew Miller
http://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Companion-Matthew-Miller/dp/1118087003/
"A Parent's Video Guide to Facebook.com" [2009]
http://www.amazon.com/Parents-Video-Guide-Facebook-com/dp/B0027P9NPO/
"Talking Back to Facebook: The Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age" [5/2012] by James P. Steyer
http://www.amazon.com/Talking-Back-Facebook-Raising-Digital/dp/145165734X/
Movies & Televison About Facebook, Inc.
"60 Minutes: The Face Behind Facebook" (January 13, 2008)
http://www.amazon.com/60-Minutes-January-13-2008/dp/B0012BUX3K/
"A Parent's Video Guide To Facebook.com" [2009] Starring Dr. Brian J. Dixon ()
http://www.amazon.com/Parents-Video-Guide-Facebook-com/dp/B0027P9NPO/
"60 Minutes: Facebook" (December 5, 2010)
http://www.amazon.com/60-Minutes-Facebook-December-2010/dp/B004EYT58Q/
"The Social Network" [Relativity Media / Columbia Oct 2010]
 | "[The main] character bears almost no resemblance to the actual Mark Zuckerberg. The reality is much more complicated." per Time Magazine December 2010 cover story "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies": The story of the college student who created the Facebook phenomenon and six years later became the youngest billionaire in history. Directed by David Fincher; based on the book by Ben Mezrich; starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Rashida Jones, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara & Joseph Mazzello
Sony Pictures widescreen color Blu-ray [1/2011] 2 disks for $16.99 Sony Pictures widescreen color DVD [1/2011] 2 disks for $11.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
 | "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook - A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal" [2009 bestseller] by Ben Mezrich
Without access to central figure Mark Zuckerberg, the author fictionalized many important parts of the story, as well as sensationalizing college life; the result is a questionable but nonetheless exciting tale. Anchor 8¼x6 pb [5/2010] for $10.85 Anchor 7¾x5 pb [9/2010] for $10.85 Doubleday 9¼x6 hardcover [7/2009] for $16.50 |
"How Did They Ever Make A Movie of Facebook?" documentary [2011]
Strangely, this docufilm is not listed on IMDb, but IMDb has links for viewing it (in four parts); released February
2011 in Sherman Oaks, CA as part of pre-Oscar promotions for "The Social Network"; directed by David Prior
Part 1: Commencement •
Part 2: Boston •
Part 3: Los Angeles •
Part 4: The Lot
"Facebook Follies" hour-long TV docu [2011] /tt2189076/
L i n k s
Facebook official website
Facebook main entry at Wikipedia
Facecrooks: How to prevent or recover from your Facebook & Twitter accounts getting hacked
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