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Beside this, who is the real founder of Facebook?

Divya Narendra

Subsequently, question is, how was Facebook started? It all began in 2003, when Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg created an online programme called “Facemash”, which allowed users to objectify fellow students by comparing photos of their faces and selecting who they deemed as “hotter”. Online “face books” already existed at Harvard at the time.

In respect to this, what was Facebook originally created for?

February 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

What was Facebook originally called?

Originally called thefacebook, Facebook was founded by former-Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg (while at Harvard) who ran it as one of his hobby projects with some financial help from Eduardo Saverin. Within months, Facebook and its core idea spread across the dorm rooms of Harvard where it was very well received.