Facebook, one of the most popular websites on the Internet. started small and became enormous within just a few years. Mark Zuckerberg is the creator of Facebook and he created it while attending Harvard University. He had a few reasons for creating the platform that many people use to share information with their friends and family.
College Interaction
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The original concept for Facebook involved a way to bring the social experience of college to the Internet. Mark Zuckerberg wanted to create an environment that could help college students connect with one another. Harvard organizations such as fraternities and sororities already had a precursor to Facebook for each individual organization. His idea was to take this information and put it into a central location so that all of the students of a college could communicate with one another.
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Share Information
Another reason that Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook was so that users could share information with each other. Users had the freedom to share as much or as little as they want about themselves. He wanted to create an environment in which you could send messages, share pictures, look at other people's pictures, share videos and links and have ongoing conversations with each other. This way, people can stay connected with each other regardless of their physical locations.
Privacy Concerns
When creating Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg also wanted to create a way for users to maintain their privacy. Instead of simply posting all of this information for the entire world to see as on a blog, for example, users could control who they share this information with. For example, you can restrict sharing personal information with only your friends or to a specific network. This way, you can limit the amount of information that gets out to the general public while still interacting with your friends.
Business
Beyond the social interaction and privacy controls, Mark Zuckerberg also created Facebook because he believed it could be a viable business. He got some start-up capital from his friend Eduardo Saverin because he expected to be able to make money with his idea at some point in the future. At the time, he did not anticipate how massively successful Facebook would be, but it emerged as one of the biggest companies in the world today.