Facebook is a social networking service launched on
February 4, 2004. It was founded by
Mark
Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow
Harvard University student
Eduardo
The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard
students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the
Ivy
and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States
corporations,
and
by September 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older with a valid
email address.
On October 1, 2005, Facebook expanded to twenty-one
universities in the United Kingdom and others around the world.
In 2010, Facebook began to invite users to become beta
testers after passing a question-and-answer-based selection process.
After Facebook announced the
settlement, but before the settlement was finalized, lawyers for the
Winklevosses suggested that the hard drive from Mark Zuckerberg's computer at
Harvard might contain evidence of Mark's fraud. Specifically, they suggested
that the hard drive included some damning instant messages and emails.