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Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.
General Growth · More than 80 million active users · Facebook is the 4th most-trafficked website in the world (comScore) · Facebook is the most-trafficked social media site in the world (comScore)
User Demographics · Over 55,000 regional, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks · More than half of Facebook users are outside of college · The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older · Maintain 85 percent market share of 4-year U.S. universities
Applications · No. 1 photo sharing application on the Web (comScore) · Photo application draws more than twice as much traffic as the next three sites combined (comScore) · More than 24 million photos uploaded daily · More than 6 million active user groups on the site
International Growth
· Our Translation Application is first step for us in helping users all over the world connect and share information with those that matter the most to them – wherever they live and in whatever language they choose
· In a little over five months, we have released the site in more than 15 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Russian and Korean. Our goal is to offer Facebook in as many languages as possible, as quickly as possible.
Platform
· More than 400,000 developers and entrepreneurs
· Over 24,000 applications have been built on Facebook Platform
· 140 new applications added per day
· More than 95% of Facebook members have used at least one application built on Facebook Platform
Product
Facebook’s simplified navigation gives users easy access to core site functions and applications. Profile, Friends, Networks and Inbox – pages core to the user experience on Facebook – have a prominent place at the top of the user’s profile page. Facebook applications – Photos, Notes, Groups, Events and Posted items – are displayed on the left side bar, along with any third-party applications a user has added to their account.
Technology Facebook is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world, and one of the largest MySQL installations anywhere, running thousands of databases. Facebook has built a lightweight but powerful multi-language RPC framework that allows the company to seamlessly and easily tie together subsystems written in any language, running on any platform. The company is the largest user in the world of memcached, an open-source caching system, and has created a custom-built search engine serving millions of queries a day, completely distributed and entirely in-memory, with real-time updates.
Platform Facebook Platform is a development platform that enables companies and engineers to deeply integrate with the Facebook website and gain access to millions of users through the social graph. Facebook is a part of millions of people’s lives all around the world providing unparalleled distribution potential for applications and the opportunity to build a business that is highly relevant to people’s lives. More information can be found at http://developers.facebook.com.
Privacy Facebook has led the industry in giving people tools to control the information they share and with whom they choose to share it. User privacy has always been a top priority for the company, which has worked with such organizations as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and WiredSafety. Facebook is TrustE certified. Users also have the ability to share and restrict information based on specific friends or friend lists.
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About Facebook
Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people's real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.
General Growth · More than 80 million active users · Facebook is the 4th most-trafficked website in the world (comScore) · Facebook is the most-trafficked social media site in the world (comScore)
User Demographics · Over 55,000 regional, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks · More than half of Facebook users are outside of college · The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older · Maintain 85 percent market share of 4-year U.S. universities
Applications · No. 1 photo sharing application on the Web (comScore) · Photo application draws more than twice as much traffic as the next three sites combined (comScore) · More than 24 million photos uploaded daily · More than 6 million active user groups on the site
International Growth
· Our Translation Application is first step for us in helping users all over the world connect and share information with those that matter the most to them – wherever they live and in whatever language they choose
· In a little over five months, we have released the site in more than 15 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Russian and Korean. Our goal is to offer Facebook in as many languages as possible, as quickly as possible.
Platform
· More than 400,000 developers and entrepreneurs
· Over 24,000 applications have been built on Facebook Platform
· 140 new applications added per day
· More than 95% of Facebook members have used at least one application built on Facebook Platform
Product
Facebook’s simplified navigation gives users easy access to core site functions and applications. Profile, Friends, Networks and Inbox – pages core to the user experience on Facebook – have a prominent place at the top of the user’s profile page. Facebook applications – Photos, Notes, Groups, Events and Posted items – are displayed on the left side bar, along with any third-party applications a user has added to their account.
Technology Facebook is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world, and one of the largest MySQL installations anywhere, running thousands of databases. Facebook has built a lightweight but powerful multi-language RPC framework that allows the company to seamlessly and easily tie together subsystems written in any language, running on any platform. The company is the largest user in the world of memcached, an open-source caching system, and has created a custom-built search engine serving millions of queries a day, completely distributed and entirely in-memory, with real-time updates.
Platform Facebook Platform is a development platform that enables companies and engineers to deeply integrate with the Facebook website and gain access to millions of users through the social graph. Facebook is a part of millions of people’s lives all around the world providing unparalleled distribution potential for applications and the opportunity to build a business that is highly relevant to people’s lives. More information can be found at http://developers.facebook.com.
Privacy Facebook has led the industry in giving people tools to control the information they share and with whom they choose to share it. User privacy has always been a top priority for the company, which has worked with such organizations as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and WiredSafety. Facebook is TrustE certified. Users also have the ability to share and restrict information based on specific friends or friend lists.
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