Facebook Button 2.0.3 CRX for Chrome

Extension for real Facebook fans ;-) We will add to your browser a beautiful Facebook button at the top right of the screen when you click on that. you get an easy way to access your favorite social network.

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Facebook ( «Facebook», [feɪsˌbʊk]) - one of the largest social networks in the world. It was founded 4 February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his roommates while studying at Harvard University [2] - Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Initially, the site was named Thefacebook and was available only for students of Harvard University, and then opened the registration for other universities in Boston and then for students of any US educational institutions with an email address in the domain .edu. Since September 2006, the site is accessible to all Internet users aged 16 years with an email address.

Facebook is among the five most-visited websites in the world. In July 2016 Facebook audience of 1.71 billion users [1] - the ones who went to the site at least once a month, or for a specified period of time has been fixed by means of a button Like the cookie and tracking [3]. Daily active audience in March amounted to 720 million people - many fixed tracking network Facebook on a daily basis. August 24, 2015 the number of users of social network Facebook for the first time was one billion people [4]. 1.03 billion people a month use the mobile Facebook app. [5] Every day at social network users leave 6 billion "likes" [6] and publish comments and 300 million photos. The site recorded 200 billion "friendships". [6] Number of page views the site in October 2011 amounted to 1 trillion [7], the number of video views on the site in 2015 reached the mark of 8 billion per day. [8]

Through this site, Mark Zuckerberg at 23, became the youngest billionaire the world [9].

Facebook allows you to create a profile with a photo and information about yourself, invite friends, exchange messages with them, change their status, post on their own and others 'walls', upload photos and videos, create groups (communities of interest).

In 2007, Facebook has offered to third-party programmers to create applications (games, tools sharing music, photos, and so on. D.) And earn on it. [10] With this capability, increased site traffic.

Facebook offers many features with which users can interact with each other. Among the most popular - a virtual wink, photo albums and "wall" where friends can leave messages for the user.

The user can control the level of access to the information published in its profile, and to determine who has access to one or another part of the page.

The site also has the possibility to complain about the unpleasant users or to block them.

In April 2016, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook launches Facebook Live - a new feature live video. Thanks to it, users can create videos, messages and send them to each other in real time [11].

Facebook The idea dates back to the early adolescence of Mark Zuckerberg when he was studying in a private school Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. The school annually published directory with names, addresses and photographs of the students (literally "book people", "face book» - Facebook [15]), and when Zuckerberg enrolled at Harvard University, then took the initiative to establish a similar network resource, but the administration of the school institution refused him, citing the privacy policy [16]. Then October 28, 2003 by Mark Zuckerberg, as a sophomore, wrote the code for Facemash website, which used pictures of people placed in pairs in order to choose which of them is more attractive.

To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas network at Harvard University and copied private photos. Harvard at that time did not have a student "album" (a directory with photos and basic information). Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in the first two hours of operation. [17]

The site grew quickly, but was shut down a few days later the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg was charged with the administration of the security violation, copyright, privacy; punishment was to be the exception. Ultimately, however, the charges were dropped. [18] Zuckerberg focused on the initial draft. He opened the site to their fellow students, where people began to share their comments on the draft.

In the next semester, in January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website. He was inspired, he said, the editorial article in the Harvard Crimson about Facemash incident. [19] February 4, 2004 Zuckerberg launched Thefacebook at thefacebook.com [20].

Six days after the site launch three Harvard undergrad - Cameron Winklevoss Twins, Tyler Winklevoss Twins and Divya Narendra - accused Zuckerberg that he deliberately mislead them, if they will help to create a social network HarvardConnection.com but instead Mark, using their ideas built a competing product. [21] They complained to the university newspaper Harvard Crimson, and she began to investigate. Subsequently, a lawsuit was filed in the court against Zuckerberg. [22]

Membership in a social network was initially limited to students of Harvard University, and within the first month, more than half of Harvard students were registered in it [23]. Soon joined Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin (CFO), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (artist), and Chris Hughes to help in promoting the site. In March 2004, Facebook audience was expanded to Stanford, Columbia and Yale. [24] He later opened in other universities of the Ivy League, Boston University, New York University, MIT, Tufts University, and then in most universities in Canada and the United States [25] [26].


Headquartered in Palo Alto.
In June 2004, Facebook moved to Palo Alto (CA) [24]. Before the move, Zuckerberg and Saverin acquainted with Sean Parker in a Chinese restaurant in Manhattan. [27] A few weeks later they faced already in Palo Alto. In mid-2004, Facebook is registered as a company, and Parker became its first president. [28] In the same month, the company received its first investment from the founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel. [29] It Sean found for the first Facebook investors Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman, and in the process of obtaining the investment made to Mark stayed for 3 of the 5 seats on the board. [27] According to Thiel, Sean was the first who saw the potential in the company and "if you make at least for a moment appeared a doubt Sean immediately cuts off them." In 2005, Parker is leaving the company. Despite this, he remains involved in the development process of Facebook and Zuckerberg meets regularly with [30].

In 2005 the company removed from its name after purchasing the article The domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $ 200,000. [31]

On September 26, 2006 access to the social network has become open to every Internet user over 13 years, having an email address.

October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced the acquisition of 1,6% Facebook shares for $ 240 million, thereby evaluating the entire company at $ 15 billion. [32] Microsoft acquired the rights to place international ads on Facebook [33]. In October 2008, Facebook announced the opening of its international headquarters in Dublin [34]. In September 2009, it was first announced a profit [35]. In November 2010, based on SecondMarket Inc, the company's value was $ 41 billion (which is slightly higher than that of eBay) data. Thus, Facebook has become the third largest Internet company in the US (after Google and Amazon) [36]. January 2, 2011, according to the newspaper The New York Times, Facebook value has reached US $ 50 billion [37]. May 18, 2012 held IPO.

Facebook traffic has grown steadily since 2009. March 13, 2010 Facebook was visited by more people than Google [38]. Facebook has also become the best social network in eight selected markets in the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Vietnam, while other brands hold leading positions only in selected markets, including owned by Google Orkut in India , Mixi.jp in Japan, CyWorld in South Korea, and the product Yahoo! Wretch.cc Taiwan.