You have 41 new text messages. by Barbie Kunkelova

Roughly forty-seven people communicating via the same social networking website (the so-called Facebook Inc.) are a pretty strong proof of this phenomenon's success and fame. Originally, it was launched by a Harvard graduate Mark Zuckerberg at the beginning of 2004 for the purpose of improving communication among Harvard students. He named it after the facebooks the college students (freshmen) are given when they enroll at the university. It is designed to help the students to get to know each other easier. Throughout the next few months Facebook expanded to more American colleges in Boston Area and more and more joined it during the upcoming years. Probably due to a globalization stimulus Facebook spread and was available worldwide & to anyone who possessed a college or university e-mail address (India or Israel joined it in 2006). Nowadays you don't have to be educated to join. The sign-in process has now only certain age requirements. After three years of functioning Mark's website made it to worlds seventh most visited webpage and it became the number one among college students (along with beating any other webpage by the amount of uploaded photos (8.5 million daily, according to Wikipedia). It cooperates with companies like iTunes or YouTube. In May, Facebook announced it will launch a new feature, the Facebook Marketplace. Here free classified advertisements are possible. An issue with text messaging arose on Monday. Lindsey Abrams filed a lawsuit against Facebook for receiving offending messages from it to her new cell phone. She was also charged for all of them. After her case was publicized, thousands of people with new phones complained about the same problem. Many huge corporations (like Microsoft, according to WSJ) tried to buy a minority stake in Facebook, but Mark is determined to keep Facebook independent.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071022/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_lawsuit;_ylt=AmcLBwWRFkw5BNaWjPsP5Xqs0NUE

by Barbie Kunkelova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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