“Facebook was just valued at $103 billion in a final private-market trade before the IPO.”
– businessinsider.com - March 31, 2012
Wow! I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg had even the faintest idea in October of 2003, when he first wrote Facemash (the predecessor to Facebook) that the little site he was to develop would take the world by storm to become the most prevalent social networking platform on the planet. Anyone who has seen David Fincher’s brilliant film, The Social Network, can tell you that Facemash was first implemented as a means of comparing photographs of Harvard students to one another to discover who was the “hotter” of the two people in the compared photos. A little crude? Yes. Kind of mean? Definitely. Facemash, however, according to Wikipedia, garnered 450 visitors and 22,000 photo views within its first few hours online. And, once Zuckerberg wrote the code for Facebook in 2004, well… the rest, as they say, is history.
Facebook today, is a medium that few people do without. And, from a business standpoint, as any forward-thinking professional can attest to, Facebook is the vehicle to employ. I’ve heard it said that if you’re not connected on social media these days, you simply don’t exist. It’s an attitude worth considering in terms of your business, especially given the fact that Facebook will soon be able to pride itself on garnering over 1 billion users across the globe!
If you’d like some help getting started on Facebook as well as the other most prominent social networking sites, we’d love to see you at one of our Social Networking for Business workshops. We’ll help you to create and/or optimize your social media accounts to best complement and advance your business. For a schedule of workshops in your area, please click here: http://www.escomputertraining.com/courses/details/industry/2/course/20
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