Facebook - more than a social network: what it is, features, interesting facts

Facebook is a social network, recognized as one of the largest in the world with the largest attendance. What are its features? It has an interesting history and controversial authorship. There are reasons to say that Facebook is more than a social network. Let's consider a few interesting facts about this service.

Features of Facebook

Facebook users create profiles with photos, talk about themselves, put up posts with images and texts. They can invite other users in themselves as friends, chat, put likes, comment on publications. Also on Facebook create communities of interest. Thanks to such opportunities and a wide worldwide audience in this social network conduct business, advertise and sell goods.

Facebook accounts look official. The audience of this social network tends to read long text posts, so infobusiness thrives here. Business content is combined with entertainment content. Posts are promoted with the help of keywords in the text and hashtags.

Facebook platform is designed to promote business accounts and personal pages. You can create advertising campaigns even with a small budget. They are customized for a specific audience by age, gender, profession or place of residence.

Facebook is used not only for work. There are games on this platform. They are simple but very addictive. A lot of users register on this social network just for the sake of playing.

Interesting facts about Facebook

This social network was launched on February 4, 2004 by the students of Harvard University in their dormitory. Initially, it was a directory of the students of this university. It was then upgraded to a social network. Facebook became so popular that students postponed all the things they did in the morning, even breakfast, just to have time to log in to their accounts and find out the news of their fellow students.

A few notable facts related to Facebook:

• Over 1 billion people have registered on this social network.
• Within every minute, 400 users register on Facebook. The number of accounts is constantly growing.
• The interface of Facebook has been translated into more than 70 languages. The translation was helped by the users of this social network. More than 300,000 people were involved.
• Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook, is recognized as the youngest billionaire. However, the original idea to create this social network belongs not to him, but to twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. They even filed a lawsuit against Mark for stealing the idea and cheating. Zuckerberg gave these brothers shares in the company, which are valued at $300 million dollars.
• The majority of Facebook users are not located in the United States. Owners of 70% of accounts are from other countries.
• Small and medium-sized businesses spend between $400 and $1,500 monthly on Facebook advertising.
• Facebook's advertising cabinet offers over 20 tools that customize targeting.
• Facebook's earnings for 2020 totaled $28 billion.

The first businesses to sign up for Facebook were Intel, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft. Since then, many companies around the world have their own page in this social network. It attracts audiences and potential customers, familiarizing them with the brand and services.