Facebook is a very popular social networking website that lets individuals communicate with others and send each other information. Facebook was founded by a man named Mark Zuckerberg on the 4th of February 2004. Mark attended Ardsley High School and Harvard University. In the beginning, Facebook was only for the students of the University Mark attended, but it was soon expanded to many other schools in the Boston area, some of which includes, Tufts University, Boston College, Harvard, Boston University, and Northeastern University and got to all athletic conference schools, or Ivy League schools, within approximately two months of launching.

After a while, all individuals that had a university email address could join Facebook, and it didn’t matter which country they were from, as long as they had the email address they could be part of this craze. Then, once that was out in the open and thousands of university students were connected, a few big companies and high schools were added to the network. Then in 2006, the service was made available to anyone who had a valid email address. When users join they have to choose a network they belonged to, for example, a high school, college, university, region or work place.

As of July 2007, the social networking service Facebook was recorded to have the largest number of people amongst college based sites, as it had more than 34 million users around the world. Within only one year, Facebook’s ranking of being the 60th most visited website increased to being the 7th most visited website on the internet and was also ranked the very best site for uploading photographs in the United States. The amount of photos uploaded daily on Facebook was 8.5 million as of September 2007.

Facebook is a free a service to join and it is easy to create a profile. According to a recent study conducted, it was reported that approximately 85% of learners previously in college have a Facebook profile. Those that are a part of Facebook, 60% of them log in to their account everyday, about 80% of them log in only once every week and 93% will log in only once every month. The spokesman for the popular networking service says that users spend about 19 minutes on average on Facebook everyday.

A study regarding college students was conducted in 2006 and it was recorded that Facebook was the second best thing to do, where the iPod was the first.