Initially, Facebook was launched as a social networking site in late 2004 with intention to connect the Harvard university graduate students to each other online, but soon expanded to include other American universities and high school students. As the time moved on, Facebook became a social networking site in the entire world and has since sparked a social revolution in most parts of the world. Currently, this social site has significant presence in almost every continent of world and in every home and village that brought us all online and connected us all to our dearest and closest ones.
If there is ever big invention in 21st century that revolutionized the entire world that how the people communicate, broadcast information, advertise their products, and stalk; it is with no doubt "Facebook". Despite the modern world stressed on the privacy of an individual, we have ironically compromised that largely by being on Facebook. The fact is Facebook and Twitter provide us the latest news from every corner of the word, even faster than news channels! It connects us to the entire world and we can easily come to know what goes on in our friend's lives and our friends of friends of friends, even about an absolute stranger.
As of now, it is of no surprise to see how revolutionized this 21st century is due to Facebook. This site has provided every functions through which you can find anyone from any part of the globe to trace his/her whole profile. In fact, 'Facebooking' someone has become just like 'Googling' them is a term that has become synonymous with investigating an individual's looks, professional and personal interests, political views and the list goes on. It has crossed one billion users now.
According to Mark Zuckerberg, the inventor of Facebook, it seems like almost everyone out there has a Facebook profile. He now owns the power to set his sight on more than three billion users mark, or roughly half the planet, by 2017, as more and more monolithic cultures is in for a shock. Indeed, there has never been like this revolutionized site that could have attracted such large numbers of users in the world from every segment.