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Facebook is one of the largest social networking sites in the world. Facebook was launched in February 2004 by some university students such as Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes as a site for Harvard students. Today Facebook is a public site; dominates worldwide, has gained popularity, changed American culture, and still remains one of the most used social media sites. Over 1 billion people have an active account. Facebook was created by a Harvard student by the name of Mark Zuckerberg, along with the help of his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes. The original website was called "Facemash.com". Facemash was a sort of "hot or not" game for Harvard students, where visitors could compare two photos of students side by side and let them decide who was attractive and who wasn't. Mark was a computer science student and used his skills to hack into Harvard's security network and copy student ID photos. Days later, students found out and were contaminated, and Facemash was shut down by Harvard executives. Mark was charged with breach of security, breach of copyright, and invasion of individual privacy for stealing the students' photos, but those charges were later dropped. On February 4, Mark launched a new site called "thefacebook.com". He wanted to create a website that could connect people at the university. A few days after its launch, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas. The three elders filed a lawsuit against Mark and the matter was settled in court. After this was resolved, a year later, the name of "thefacebook", simply changed to Facebook, after purc...... middle of paper ...... an Android-only experience, replacing the app - studded, cluttered and cluttered home screen and adds a simple lock screen for your Android device with an engaging, immersive and distraction-free version of Facebook, a graphical search and even a search engine. All these products fail to thrive. Facebook made innovative decisions by purchasing Instagram for one billion dollars and Whatsapp for an astonishing nineteen billion dollars. After all, Facebook has been influenced by the world since the beginning. It allows communication between loved ones to be much easier and accessible through simply creating an account. It is a popular website, with great features that has attracted over a billion users every day. Facebook is one of the most used websites and continues to dominate the world as the most used social media.