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Mark Zuckerberg was a college student at the University of Harvard. In his freshmen year Mark came out with a dating site called hot or not. The site was shut down two days later.
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When Facebook was first in the making it, name wasn't Facebook it was called The Facebook. The site was only for Havard or college students.
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Facebook is always in the news for being sue. The first time Facebook was sued was by two twin brothers from connectU for stealing their idea. this was a big turnaround for Facebook and the first of the law suites.
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Ater going through different names Facebook was finally named Facebook. First year of its new name it was still only college students. Then finally it was release to the public and this was one their biggest milestone. This would make a big difference in social media in the American culture.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook
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After years go by Facebook is one the most popular social media platforms. It was one the largest photo hosts and has change the way American society does social media. For example, the election of 2008 was the first-time social media was involved in an election scandal. That had a big impact on American society. Then in 2010 the movie The Social Network. That showed American society how Facebook was and all the back story to it.
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In October of 2012 Facebook hit a major milestone of hitting 1 billion active users. Then in 2018 Facebook hit another challenge with other lawsuits for data scandal in history. That is other way it became contemporary in American society when it came to our privacy and data. Then in 2021 Facebook changes its name to Meta.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/12/facebook-security-breach-details.html#:~:text=Facebook%20discovered%20and%20disclosed%20the,post%20published%20by%20the%20company.