When was Facebook founded?

The date Facebook was created

Facebook was officially launched to the public on the fourth of February of the year 2004 AD, which worked on its founding Mark Zuckerberg, and the site is a giant social platform that allows users to communicate with friends, share posts, photos and videos, create pages and access and play free games. The number of Facebook users in 2012 reached one billion active users, and Facebook can be accessed through the website from Any web browser, or via the mobile app.

Facebook start

The social media giant, Facebook, started as a website called Facemash, which was created by Zuckerberg in the year 2003 AD, in his sophomore year at Harvard University, using his computer science skills to hack the Harvard safety net, copy students' identity photos, and use them to populate his site. The new website, and after opening the site for a few days it was closed by university executives, and Zuckerberg faced serious charges of violating security, violating copyright, and violating individual privacy, and despite being expelled from Harvard University because of his actions, all charges were eventually dropped.

Facebook users

In the year 2006 AD, Facebook moved from a limited site in universities and colleges to a platform open to all. As any person over the age of 13, who has a valid email address, is able to create an account on Facebook, and the number of site users reached 12 million in the year 2006 AD, and this number increased exponentially to reach 300 million users in the year 2009 AD with ten million active users. Daily.

Facebook Inc

Facebook offered its shares for public subscription in February of the year 2012 AD to become a public company, and the initial public offering (in English: initial public offering) collected $ 16 billion in May, and the company’s market value reached $ 102.4 billion, and Zuckerberg’s profits were estimated at the end of the day The first to trade shares of more than $ 19 billion.