PHILIPPINES, THE SOCIAL NETWORKING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD part II

Here's another reason why Philippines was tagged as the social networking capital of the world.  Well, I have discussed about friendster on my previous post. Now, let me show you some information about the top social networking site FACEBOOK. Well, it is pretty obvious that Facebook is now a part of the Filipino's cyberculture.

ABOUT FACEBOOK
Facebook was launched in February 2004 and operated and privately owned by Facebook Inc.This site got its name from an annual book of Harvard University given students at the start of each school year to help them know each other better. Facebook's  idea started when it's founder Mark Zuckerberg wrote facemash on October 28, 2003 while attending Harvard University as a sophomore. He wrote it to represent Harvard's version of "HOT or NOT" and to made this possible he had to hacked into the university's  computer network.
On January of 2004, Zuckerberg began writing new codes for a new website 'thefacebook" which he then launched on February 4, 2004.Upon finishing the site he immediately put it on Kirkland's mailing list with the help of his friend Dustin Moskovitz, and at the end of the day they already got around 1200 to 1500 registrants.After 6 days from its launch, Zuckerberg faced accusations from fellow Harvard students who filed lawsuit against him but was later dismissed due to technicality.


Today,  facebook has about 9 million users from the Philippines alone. Gone are the days when you would probably hear your friends asking you to add them on friendster. There are a lot of reasons why people left friendster for facebook. It is obvious that that the latter has a nice and clean interface, it offers different applications from zynga like farmville, yoville, poker, nightclub city and many more that suits different ages, quizzes,  status box where you can let your friends know what is on your mind on a particular time, comments for your friends activities, post and status, chatbox where you can directly talk to your online friends without having to sign in to your instant messengers, you can also leave messages to your friend without having to log in to your e-mail and it also becomes an ideal site for those who has an organizations to update their members about their new projects and meetings and lately a place for politicians to gain support for their campaigns. Facebook also has its mobile version and not to forget the unlimited photo storage.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (26), the man behind the famous social networking site "facebook" . Born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York and was raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He is also the CEO and President of facebook. His net worth?  $ 4.0 billion.