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- Facebook is a social networking site developed by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard roomates and fellow computer science majors Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes in February 2004. Facebook was originally created as a social networking site for Harvard undergrads, but the site quickly opened up its membership to students of the Ivy League and Stanford University. Membership then quickly became available to every other university in the United States, and by 2009, anyone 13 years or older could join. The site describes itself as a means of connecting individuals to their friends and family, fellow students, and coworkers. Facebook offers various means of interacting with one's "Friends." Each member has a profile page with a wall on which others can post messages. It also offers the opportunity to publish notes, share links, post photos, send private messages, and become fans of celebrities, places, and products. Facebook can be extremely fun and extremely addicting. It has come under fire in recent years for sharing users' profile information with advertisers, as well as for changing the format of the site, and for making it available to more people. "The Social Network a movie dramatizing the early days of Facebook will be released in 2010, starring Jesse Eisenberg in the lead role of Mark Zuckerberg.
