Mark Zuckerburg owns Facebook and founded it along with Eduardo Saverin,Andrew McCollum Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Facebook does not own any traditional media businesses. This is probably down to the fact they are a modern and contemporary company.
Facebook owns Instagram as they bought the company earlier this year for $1 billion.
Their revenue is $3.71 billion (2011) and its overall worth is $90 billion.
5 Key Facts:
Launches in February 2004
Its a social netwroking site based on personal profiles
Has over 955 million users
Estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account
Became the third largest U.S. Web company after Google and Amazon
3 Quotes "On whatever scale you care to judge Facebook—as a company, as a culture, as a country—it is vast beyond imagination." -Stephen Marche A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter. -Dan Savage
Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard. -Mark Zuckerberg
Wikipedia Articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc.
The media often compares Facebook to MySpace, but one significant difference between the two Web sites is the level of customization. MySpace allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, while Facebook allows only plain text
The "Like" button is a key feature
It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including the People's Republic of China, Iran,Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Syria, and Bangladesh on different bases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc. American multinational Internet corporation filed for an initial public offering on February 1, 2012, began selling stock to the public and trading on the NASDAQ on May 18, 2012 Zuckerburg owns 28.2%
Most of Facebook's revenue comes from advertising
Infographics
You Tube Video
This video shows how Facebook - although it's not actual reality - reflects our lives. It shows what the primary purpose of Facebook is: friends and interacting with them through this platform. This is shown by the increasing number of friends he gets, pictures or other links he has left comments on, being tagged in pictures, writing on people's walls, being poked, etc. It also displays how open people are to sharing information over the internet, such as; updating statuses and relationship statuses. People can also meet other people over Facebook - although in reality, it probably wouldn't be as safe or as easy as it's shown in this video.
