Facebook is an online social networking service that allows its users to connect with friends and family as well as make new connections. It was founded by Andrew McCollum, Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

1# On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion

2# In October 2012 Facebook’s monthly active users passed one billion, with 600 million mobile users, 219 billion photo uploads, and 140 billion friend connections. The 2 billion user mark was crossed in June 2017.

3# In April 2021, The Guardian (Another huge data breach, another stony silence from Facebook by Carole Cadwalladr) reported approximately half a billion users’ data had been stolen including birthdates and phone numbers.