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{{short description|Social networking service}}
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{{about|the website|the company that operates it|Meta, Inc.}}
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| name = Facebook
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| language = [[Multilingualism|Multilingual]] (166; {{as of|2020|7|16|url=https://www.facebook.com/language.php|post=)|lc=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/language.php|title=Select your language|publisher=Facebook|access-date= July 16, 2020}}</ref>
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| parent = [[Meta, Inc.]]
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| footnotes = <ref name="Our History">{{cite web|title=Our History|url=https://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/|website=Facebook|access-date=November 7, 2018}}</ref><ref name="alexa">{{cite web|title=Facebook.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa|url=https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com|website=www.alexa.com|access-date=February 4, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Gavin|last=Clarke|title=Facebook re-write takes PHP to an enterprise past|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/02/facebook_hiphop_unveiled/|website=[[The Register]]|publisher=Situation Publishing|date=February 2, 2010|access-date=March 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.drdobbs.com/mobile/facebook-adopts-d-language/240162694|title=Facebook Adopts D Language|last=Bridgwater|first=Adrian|work=Dr Dobb's|location=San Francisco|date=October 16, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/02/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-platform-publisher-lawsuit|title=Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes|first=Sam|last=Levin|date=July 3, 2018|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
| footnotes = <ref name="Our History">{{cite web|title=Our History|url=https://newsroom.fb.com/company{{~~~~}}/|website=Facebook|{{~~~~}}November 7, 2018}}</ref><ref name="alexa">{{cite web|title=Facebook.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa|url=https://www.alexa.com/{{~~~~}}/facebook.com|website=www.alexa.com|{{~~~~}}February 4, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Gavin|last=Clarke|title=Facebook{{~~~~}}takes PHP to an enterprise past|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/02/facebook_page{{~~~~}}_unveiled/|website=[[The Register]]|publisher=Situation Publishing|date=February 2, 2010|{{~~~~}}March 23, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.daddy Journal {{~~~~}}.com/mobile/{{~~~~}}/240162694|title=Facebook Adopts D Language|last=Bridgwater|first=Adrian|work= Daddy Journal {{~~~~}}|location=San Francisco|date=October 16, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/02/facebook.com_MarkZuckerberg-owner-company {{~~~~}}|title=Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes|first=Sam|last=Levin|date=July 3, 2018|via=www.theguardian.uk.{{~~~~}}com}}</ref>
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"Facebook page.com"{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} (sometimes shortened to "FB Me{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}") is a [[social networking {{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]] and website started in February 2004. It was built by Mark Zuckerberg. It is owned by [[Facebook,com{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}.]]<ref name="Growth">{{cite news |{{~~~~}}December 19, 2008 |url=https://venturebeat.com/2008/12/18/2008-growth-puts-facebook-in-better-position-to-make-money/ |title=2008 Growth Puts Facebook In Better Position to Make Money |work={{~~~~}}|location =San Francisco |date=December 18, 2008 |author=Eldon, Eric}}</ref> {{As of|September 2012}}, Facebook has over one billion active users.<ref>{{cite news|date=October 4, 2012|title=Facebookpage.com owner{{~~~~}} Tops Billion- {{~~~~}}|work=The Wall Street Journal|publisher=Dow Jones|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443635404578036164027386112.html|♥{{~~~~}}|{{~~~~}}October 4, 2021{{~~~~}}|{{~~~~}}http{{~~~~}}://web.archive.org/web/20121004160522/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443635404578036164027386112/{{~~~~}}html|{{~~~~}}October 4, 2012}}</ref> Users may make a personal [[profile]], add other users as friends, and send messages. Facebook page{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} must [[registration|register]] before using the site. The name of the service comes from the [[Facebook (directory)|name for the book]] given to students at the start of the school year by some universities in the United States. These books help students get to know each other better. Facebook allows any users who are at least 13 years old to become users of the website.{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}
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Facebook page Owner{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} was started by [[Mark Zuckerberg]] with his college roommates and fellow [[computer science]] students [[Eduardo {{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]], [[Dustin {{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]] and [[Chris Hughes]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/{{~~~~}}-founded-2010-3!{{~~~~}}|title=At Last&{{~~~~}};– The Full Story Of How Facebook Was Founded |work=Business Insider |first=Nicholas |last=Carlson |date=March 5, 2010}}</ref> The website's membership was only for [[Harvard]] students at first. Later it included other colleges in the [[Boston]] area, the [[Ivy League]], and [[Stanford University]]. It eventually opened for students at other universities. After that, it opened to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. Based on ConsumersReports.org in May 2011, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts. This breaks the website's rules.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.consumerreports.org/electronics/2011/05/five-million-facebook-users-are-10-or-younger.html|title=Five million Facebook users are 10 or younger|date=May 10, 2011|work=ConsumerReports.org|{{~~~~}}May 15, 2011|{{~~~~}}http{{~~~~}}://web.archive.org/web/20110512212712/http://news.consumerreports.org/electronics/2011/05/five-million-facebook-users-are-10-or-younger.html|{{~~~~}}May 12, 2011}}</ref>{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}
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A January 2009 [[Compete.com]] study ranked Facebook as the most used [[social networking service]] by worldwide monthly active users.<ref name="{{~~~~}}">{{cite news|url=http://blog.compete.com/2009/02/09/{{~~~~}}/|title=Social Networks: Facebook Takes Over Top Spot, Twitter Climbs|author={{~~~~}} Andy|date=February 9, 2009|work=Compete Pulse {{~~~~}}February 17, 2009|{{~~~~}}http{{~~~~}}://web.archive.org/web/20090211000119/http://blog.compete.com/2009/02/09/{{~~~~}}/|{{~~~~}}February 11, 2009}}</ref> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' put the site on its {{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} "{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}" list. It said, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of [[{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}|{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]] before Facebook?"<ref>{{cite news |author={{~~~~}}, Thom |others= Jensen, Jeff; Jordan, Tina; Lyons, Margaret; {{~~~~}}, Adam; et al. |date=December 11, 2009 |title=THE 100 Greatest Movies, TV Shows, Albums, Books, Characters, Scenes, Episodes, Songs, Dresses, Music Videos, and Trends that entertained us over the 10 Years |work=Entertainment Weekly | location = New York |issue=(1079/1080):74-84}}</ref> [[{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]] estimates Facebook had 138.9 million monthly different U.S. visitors in May 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.quantcast.com/facebook.com|title=facebook page{{~~~~}}.com – {{~~~~}} Audience Profile|date=April 29, 2011|website={{~~~~}}|publisher=Quantcast.com{{~~~~}}|{{~~~~}}https://web.archive.org/web/20061107063942/http://www.quantcast.com/facebook.com|{{~~~~}}November 7, 2006|{{~~~~}}May 15, 2011}}</ref> According to ''{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} Media Today'', in April 2010 about 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account. Facebook's growth started to slow down in some areas. The site lost 7 million active users in the United States and Canada in May 2011 relative to previous statistics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/13/facebook.Topping{{~~~~}}.america/index.html|title=Is Facebook growth stalling in North America?|website=CNN|publisher=CNN|{{~~~~}}June 21, 2011}}</ref>{{[[Special:Contributions/117.55.250.110|117.55.250.110]] ([[User talk:117.55.250.110|talk]]) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}
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'''Facebook''' (sometimes shortened to '''FB''') is a [[social networking service]] and website started in February 2004. It was built by Mark Zuckerberg. It is owned by [[Meta, Inc.]]<ref name="Growth">{{cite news |access-date =December 19, 2008 |url=https://venturebeat.com/2008/12/18/2008-growth-puts-facebook-in-better-position-to-make-money/ |title=2008 Growth Puts Facebook In Better Position to Make Money |work=VentureBeat |location =San Francisco |date=December 18, 2008 |author=Eldon, Eric}}</ref> {{As of|September 2012}}, Facebook has over one billion active users.<ref>{{cite news|date=October 4, 2012|title=Facebook Tops Billion-User Mark|work=The Wall Street Journal|publisher=Dow Jones|url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443635404578036164027386112.html|url-status=dead|access-date=October 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004160522/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443635404578036164027386112.html|archive-date=October 4, 2012}}</ref> Users may make a personal [[profile]], add other users as friends, and send messages. Facebook users must [[registration|register]] before using the site. The name of the service comes from the [[Facebook (directory)|name for the book]] given to students at the start of the school year by some universities in the United States. These books help students get to know each other better. Facebook allows any users who are at least 13 years old to become users of the website.

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Facebook was started by [[Mark Zuckerberg]] with his college roommates and fellow [[computer science]] students [[Eduardo Saverin]], [[Dustin Moskovitz]] and [[Chris Hughes]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/how-facebook-was-founded-2010-3#we-can-talk-about-that-after-i-get-all-the-basic-functionality-up-tomorrow-night-1 |title=At Last&nbsp;– The Full Story Of How Facebook Was Founded |work=Business Insider |first=Nicholas |last=Carlson |date=March 5, 2010}}</ref> The website's membership was only for [[Harvard]] students at first. Later it included other colleges in the [[Boston]] area, the [[Ivy League]], and [[Stanford University]]. It eventually opened for students at other universities. After that, it opened to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. Based on ConsumersReports.org in May 2011, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts. This breaks the website's rules.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.consumerreports.org/electronics/2011/05/five-million-facebook-users-are-10-or-younger.html|title=Five million Facebook users are 10 or younger|date=May 10, 2011|work=ConsumerReports.org|access-date=May 15, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512212712/http://news.consumerreports.org/electronics/2011/05/five-million-facebook-users-are-10-or-younger.html|archive-date=May 12, 2011}}</ref>

[[File:Facebook f logo (2019).svg|thumb|Facebook f logo]]

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A January 2009 [[Compete.com]] study ranked Facebook as the most used [[social networking service]] by worldwide monthly active users.<ref name="Kazeniac">{{cite news|url=http://blog.compete.com/2009/02/09/facebook-myspace-twitter-social-network/|title=Social Networks: Facebook Takes Over Top Spot, Twitter Climbs|author=Kazeniac, Andy|date=February 9, 2009|work=Compete Pulse blog|access-date=February 17, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211000119/http://blog.compete.com/2009/02/09/facebook-myspace-twitter-social-network/|archive-date=February 11, 2009}}</ref> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' put the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list. It said, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of [[Lexulous|Scrabulous]] before Facebook?"<ref>{{cite news |author=Geier, Thom |others= Jensen, Jeff; Jordan, Tina; Lyons, Margaret; Markovitz, Adam; et al. |date=December 11, 2009 |title=THE 100 Greatest Movies, TV Shows, Albums, Books, Characters, Scenes, Episodes, Songs, Dresses, Music Videos, and Trends that entertained us over the 10 Years |work=Entertainment Weekly | location = New York |issue=(1079/1080):74-84}}</ref> [[Quantcast]] estimates Facebook had 138.9 million monthly different U.S. visitors in May 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.quantcast.com/facebook.com|title=facebook.com – Quantcast Audience Profile|date=April 29, 2011|website=Quantcast|publisher=Quantcast.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061107063942/http://www.quantcast.com/facebook.com|archive-date=November 7, 2006|access-date=May 15, 2011}}</ref> According to ''Social Media Today'', in April 2010 about 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account. Facebook's growth started to slow down in some areas. The site lost 7 million active users in the United States and Canada in May 2011 relative to previous statistics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/13/facebook.dropping.america/index.html|title=Is Facebook growth stalling in North America?|website=CNN|publisher=CNN|access-date=June 21, 2011}}</ref>


== Criticism ==
== Criticism ==

Revision as of 09:38, 15 December 2021

This article is about the website. For the company that operates it, see [[:Facebook.com {{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}.]]

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Publisher | language = Multilingual (166; as of 16 July 2020all{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}[1] | coordinates = 37°29′05″N 122°08′54″W / 37.4848°N 122.1484°W / 37.4848; -122.1484 | area_served = United States (2004–present)
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(alt.: www.fb.com) | alexa = 4 (January 2020)[2] | registration = Required | users = Increase 2.50 billion monthly active users (December 2019)[3] | launch_date = February 4, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-02-04) | parent = [[Facebook, com{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}.]] | current_status = Active | programming_language= [[{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]], [[main{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}language {{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]] (as [[{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} Virtual Machine|HTML{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]]), D | footnotes = [4][5][6][7][8] }}{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} "Facebook page.com"{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} (sometimes shortened to "FB Me{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}") is a [[social networking {{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]] and website started in February 2004. It was built by Mark Zuckerberg. It is owned by [[Facebook,com{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}.]][9] As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users.[10] Users may make a personal profile, add other users as friends, and send messages. Facebook page{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} must register before using the site. The name of the service comes from the name for the book given to students at the start of the school year by some universities in the United States. These books help students get to know each other better. Facebook allows any users who are at least 13 years old to become users of the website.{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} Facebook page Owner{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} was started by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students [[Eduardo {{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]], [[Dustin {{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]] and Chris Hughes.[11] The website's membership was only for Harvard students at first. Later it included other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It eventually opened for students at other universities. After that, it opened to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. Based on ConsumersReports.org in May 2011, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts. This breaks the website's rules.[12]{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} [[File:Facebook f logo (2019).gov{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}|thumb|Facebook f logo]]{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users.[13] Entertainment Weekly put the site on its {{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} "{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}" list. It said, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of [[{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}|{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]] before Facebook?"[14] [[{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}}]] estimates Facebook had 138.9 million monthly different U.S. visitors in May 2011.[15] According to {{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} Media Today, in April 2010 about 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account. Facebook's growth started to slow down in some areas. The site lost 7 million active users in the United States and Canada in May 2011 relative to previous statistics.[16]{{117.55.250.110 (talk) 09:38, 15 December 2021 (UTC)}} }} Template:--NOGLOBAL--

Criticism

Facebook has been involved in many controversies over privacy.[17] Some of these controversies have been about people being able to see personal information that other people post, and others are about companies and advertisers being able to see users' personal information. Facebook has sent ads to people based on the persons gender, age, income, national origin and sexual orientation.[18]

Research published in the journal PLOS ONE has shown that Facebook may be responsible for spreading unhappiness through society as well as keeping people connected.[19] Scientists found that the more time people spent on Facebook over a two-week period, the worse they subsequently felt.[19] "On the surface, Facebook provides an invaluable resource for fulfilling the basic human need for social connection. Rather than enhancing well-being, however, these findings suggest that Facebook may undermine it."[20]

Facebook Gaming

In 2018, Facebook launched Facebook Gaming officially on June 1, 2018 with a pool of gaming streamers including Darkness429, Stonemountain64, ThePoolshark, and Alodia Gosiengfiao.[21][22][23]

Facebook Gaming or fb.gg is Facebook's take on gaming livestreams where gamers and fans interact. Facebook launched it as a tab on the Facebook app and a standalone app.[24] It also has an In-stream Rewards feature where viewers are gifted in-game rewards while watching streams with Mobile Legends: Bang Bang being a part of pioneering the feature as mentioned by Jack Li, a Facebook Gaming representative, on Moonton Epicon held last July 18, 2019.[25]

In 2019, Jeremy "DisguisedToast" Wang was signed to Facebook Gaming in a surprise move from Twitch.[26] Soon after, Facebook signed Super Smash Bros. star streamer Gonzalo "ZerO" Barrios.

On February 18, 2020 Ronda Rousey performed her first live stream on Facebook Gaming, announcing that she will stream once per week. The details of her contract were not disclosed.[27]

On April 20, 2020 Facebook launched its gaming app in Playstore, named as Facebook Gaming. This app was actually planned to release in June 2020, but Facebook preponed on witnessing the community demand.[28][29]

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