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Facebook  

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  • Facebook is the most popular social network in the world, ranked as the second-most visited Web site on (behind ) and registering more than 1.11 billion users as of March 2013. Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and a group of fellow Harvard University students in February 2004. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics; Facebook]

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