Creation & Development

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The creation and development of Zuckerberg's social media website, Facebook, was long and diffcult. The name "Facebook" was chosen because of other Harvard University students using it to describe websites, and yearbooks. The original "Facebook" (named Facemash) was a face matching game, where it was available to Harvard University as a "hot" or "not" game. It was shut down due to Zuckerberg getting lawsuits for using faces in the website. Around a couple of months later, "theFacebook" was made and put into development. The name was changed to "Facebook" shortly after.

The Facebook Homepage (2013-2014)


An example of a Facebook profile



Facebook Timeline

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