Facebook is by far the largest social network. It was founded in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zucjerberg. Facebook was only open to college students at one point but it became so popular that everyone was then allowed to join. There are currently 500 million users on facebook and many more continue to register daily.
There was a movie filmed called "The Social Network". There are currently legal disputes between founder Zuckerberg and four classmates whom say Facebook was their idea. As always people want to get credit for something when it becomes popular. This type of CMS was just a class assignment but the question still remains of whom is the real creator. This reminds me of our last assignment of copyrighting and patenting your ideas. They should have been taught as we are currently being taught to protect their ideas. I guess Harvard did not thoroughly teach their students the fundamentals to prepare them for the real world.
Trends come and go but for some odd reason I believe Facebook is here to stay. This social network will be around for much time to come or until something bigger comes along. With the way technology is coming along these days i due time someone will come up with a better idea.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/facebook_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org
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