About Facebook

A lot of People from us use facebook some people use it most and some use less...
But a very few people knew that how it started and how started this
Here i am with the Trusted information that who launched the facebook and what were the circumstances under which it was developed .
I think the wiki pedia would be best site that would provide this information so i have used a reference from it ..

Facebook was founded byMark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin ,Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes . The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. However, based on ConsumersReports.org on May 2011, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts, violating the site's terms

Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore. According to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not, and "used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person"

Facebook launched a high-school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step. At that time, high-school networks required an invitation to join.Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, includingApple Inc. and Microsoft.Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older with a valid email address

The site was an instant hit. Now, six years later, the site has become one of the biggest web sites in the world, visited by 400 million people a month.The controversy surrounding Facebook began quickly. A week after he launched the site in 2004, Mark was accused by three Harvard seniors of having stolen the idea from them.

In 2007, Massachusetts Judge Douglas P. Woodlock called their allegations "tissue thin." Referring to the  agreement that Mark had allegedly breached, Woodlock also wrote, "Dorm room chit-chat does not make a contract." A year later, the end finally seemed in sight: a judge ruled against Facebook's move to dismiss the case. Shortly thereafter, the parties agreed to settle.

But then, a twist.

After Facebook announced the settlement, but before the settlement was finalized, lawyers for the Winklevosses suggested that the hard drive from Mark Zuckerberg's computer at Harvard might contain evidence of Mark's fraud. Specifically, they suggested that the hard drive included some damning instant messages and emails.