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title: "Facebook"
date: 2023-05-20
author: "patrik"
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# Facebook

One of the first, and certainly still the biggest, social networks. Launched in 2003 by now-billionaire Mark Zuckerberg as FaceMash, it was renamed TheFacebook in 2004. Facebook originally started as a network for Harvard students. The social network opened to the public three years later, in 2006. By that time, it already had over a million users. Today, over two billion users from all over the world use Facebook, despite frequent problems (not only) with the protection of private data.