The website was originally named Thefacebook and was only available to Harvard students, then the registration was opened to other Boston universities and then to students of any U.S. educational institutions with an email address in the domain .edu. Since September 2006, the site has been accessible to all Internet users aged 16 and over with an e-mail address.
Facebook is among the five most visited websites in the world. As of April 2017, the network has a monthly audience of 1.968 billion people. [6] As of June 2017, the Facebook audience was 2 billion users[1] — those who visited the site at least once a month or for a specified period of time was recorded using the Like button and tracking cookies[7]. Daily active audience in March amounted to 720 million people - as recorded by the tracking network Facebook daily.
The website was originally named Thefacebook and was only available to Harvard students, then the registration was opened to other Boston universities and then to students of any U.S. educational institutions with an email address in the domain .edu. Since September 2006, the site has been accessible to all Internet users aged 16 and over with an e-mail address.
Facebook is among the five most visited websites in the world. As of April 2017, the network has a monthly audience of 1.968 billion people. [6] As of June 2017, the Facebook audience was 2 billion users[1] — those who visited the site at least once a month or for a specified period of time was recorded using the Like button and tracking cookies[7]. Daily active audience in March amounted to 720 million people - as recorded by the tracking network Facebook daily.