Autobiography of a facebook report

Transparency Center

Q3 2024 report

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Widely Viewed Content Report aims to provide more transparency and context about what people are seeing on Facebook by sharing the most-viewed domains, links, Pages and posts for a given quarter on Feed in the United States. We provide insights into the various content types that appear on Feed to help people better understand our distribution systems and how they influence the content people see on Facebook. We plan to expand the scope of this report in future iterations. It will continue to appear in conjunction with our quarterly Community Standards Enforcement Report.

A few things to note:

• Context on the report’s methodology and additional information that may help you understand this report can be found in our Companion Guide. A summary of changes in each report can also be found in our Changes, Corrections and Adjustments page

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  History of Facebook

  The history of Facebook traces its growth from a college networking site to a global social networking service. It was launched as TheFacebook in 2004, and became Facebook in 2005.^[1]

  Founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes^[2] at Harvard University, it was initially limited to Harvard students. It expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League,^[3] and gradually most universities in the United States and Canada,^[4][5] corporations,^[6] and by 2006 to everyone with a valid email address along with an age requirement of being 13 or older.^[7][8] Facebook introduced key features like the News Feed in 2006, which became central to user engagement. By 2007, Facebook surpassed MySpace in global traffic and became the world's most popular social media platform. The company focused on generatin

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On the 4th February Facebook turned 14 years old. Now one of the biggest companies in the world, it’s become an everyday armatur of millions of lives the world over.

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So how did one ung US lärjunge go from coding in his dorm room to the head of one of the most important and influential tech firms in history?

Zuckerberg starts out

Mark Zuckerberg took the first steps of his path at an early age. Clearly understanding the importance of coding, Zuckerberg’s father Edward taught him Atari BASIC computer programming. It didn’t take long for his skills to become apparent. When he was 11, his parents hired a software developer named David Newman to tutor him. Newman to this day calls Zuckerberg a “prodigy”.

Within a couple of years, Zuckerberg created an incredibly practical programme: ZuckNet. His father ran a dentists out of the house and wanted a simple way for