The Creation of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his fellow roommates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while studying in Harvard. In the beginning access to the site was limited to students attending Harvard only but it then expanded to other colleges throughout America. Zuckerberg created Facebook as a rating website and it was originally named Facemash. It was used to rate people by their looks with a picture being shown of Zuckerbergs fellow students and celebrities. It eventually was opened to everyone over the age of 13 but recently it was found in May 2011 there are 7.5 million children under the age of 13 that are members of the site. A study in January 2009 showed that Facebook is the most used social networking site in the world and in April 2009 it was estimated that 41.6% of Americans have a Facebook account.