Facebook and it's Founder

Friends, Facebook is such a well-known and popular social networking site, in today's era, hardly anyone is unaware of Facebook, which has introduced countless people to their loved ones, whether it is old friends, family members living far away, or else. Any other close who is in any corner of the world can also find him through Facebook, provided that he also uses Facebook. You may have also found many such friends through Facebook who may not have met you after school or college. Facebook is such a social networking site, through which news of every moment, whether good or bad, can be shared with each other through messages or pictures. With the change in the times, Facebook has updated itself a lot. On which the person can be traced everything, news reports, shopping ideas, crafts, cooking, video, and even the smallest thing from Facebook. And nowadays Facebook has also started its business portal, you can also increase your business on Facebook.

Who is the Founder of Facebook?

The founder of Facebook is Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. He was born in New York, USA, on May 14, 1984. When he was studying at Harvard University, he created a site called Facebook. In addition to being the primary founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg is one of the youngest billionaires in the world.

Mark Zuckerberg has been very interested in programming in the primary school itself. Atari BASIC was used by Mark to construct "Zucknet," a messaging application when he was around 12 years old. Mark's father used to use this program in his dental office. The Zucknet program that Mark had created was also used by Mark's entire family to communicate inside the house.

Some of Mark's other programs that he had made, few people probably know:

• Mark along with his friend also made computer games for entertainment.

•  Mark also built an intelligent media MP3 player in his high secondary school that created a list of MP3 players, in which users could create MP3 lists.

•  To keep up with Mark's growing interest in computers, Mark's parents hired David Newman, a personal computer teacher, to come home with Mark once every week.

In the year 2003, Mark Zuckerberg got the idea to one day create a website called FaceMash. Mark decided to hack Harvard's database where college students also uploaded their profile photos. Mark soon developed a program that used to automatically show the images of 2 women and used to vote on them, which of these two is more beautiful. Voting was done by the people visiting the website, that is, the people visiting the website were voters.

A lot of people/traffic came to this website in a very short time. Most of the traffic to the site was brought by Harvard College students. Their server also crashed due to excessive traffic.

After this accident, Mark was accused of hacking, because Mark had taken all the photos by hacking the database, as well as the site that Mark had created where voting was done for the beauty of girls, it was also wrong without them. of permission. Mark was also punished for this.

History of Facebook

Facebook's history is not very old, yet it is incredibly fascinating. Because Facebook has achieved very quick progress in a very short time. Facebook was created by Mark Elliot Zuckerberg with his teammate Eduardo Saverin, who had other programming assistants such as Dustin Moskovitz as programming, Andrew McCollum as a graphics artist, and Chris Hughes helping with the promotion of Zuckerberg's website. Together with all this, on February 4, 2004, Facebook was officially communicated to the whole world. Initially, its committee was formed at Harvard University itself, gradually it was expanded to many universities like Boston, Ivy League, and Stanford. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, headquartered in California, was elected as president. Since then Facebook has been made worldwide.

Acquisitions of Facebook

In August 2009, Facebook acquired social media real-time news aggregator FriendFeed, a startup created by Paul Buchheit, the first Gmail engineer.

In February 2010, Facebook acquired Malaysian contacts-importing startup Octazen Solutions.

Facebook announced the acquisition of the photo-sharing site Divvyshot on April 2, 2010.

On 12 April 2012, Facebook acquired the famous photo-sharing service Instagram for approximately $1 billion in cash and stock.

On March 8, 2013, Facebook announced that they had acquired the team from Storyline.

On October 13, 2013, Facebook acquired Onavo, an Israeli analytics company, for approximately $120 million.

On February 19, 2014, Facebook announced the acquisition of the well-known smartphone instant messaging application WhatsApp for $19 billion in a mix of stock and cash.

On March 25, 2014, Facebook announced that they had acquired virtual reality startup Oculus VR for $2 billion in cash and stock.

In April 2020, Facebook bought a 9.9% stake in Jio, the highest ever foreign direct investment in the Indian technology sector.

Controversies of Facebook

Facebook and its controversies | Controversies of Facebook

So friends, like the unimaginable evolution of Facebook since 2004, there have been a lot of controversies associated with Facebook over the years. Let's have a look at some of them:

1. March 12, 2012, Yahoo! The lawsuit was filed against Facebook in a US federal court weeks before the scheduled Facebook initial public offering. In its court filings, Yahoo! said that Facebook has infringed on ten of its patents covering advertising, privacy controls, and social networking.

2. The Cambridge Analytica scandal – On March 17, 2018, it was reported that the data of millions of Facebook users (up to 87 million of them) were scraped through an app called “This is your digital life” was. Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the issue and suspended Cambridge Analytica. The scandal caused an uproar, causing Zuckerberg to testify before Congress, and a $663,000 fine from the Office of the Information Commissioner in the UK, while Facebook tried to reassure users and advertisers.

3. Facebook users have the ability to broadcast virtually anything from anywhere with the Facebook Live feature, and that access has led to an increase in offensive, dangerous and inappropriate content on Facebook.

4. Another Facebook scandal is the one that matters the most to advertisers. In September 2016, Facebook publicly announced that it had found an error in the way it calculated a key metric that advertisers use to determine audience reaction to videos.

5. Fake accounts – Fake accounts are another key point in the use of such a large online social platform. In April 2017, Facebook removed 30,000 fake accounts linked to attempts to spread misinformation ahead of the French presidential election. It is impossible to know how many fake accounts there are around the world.

By Moni Sinhmar