facebook was founded by mark zuckerberg , an individual web designer looking to be friends at boston university . whilst wikipedia has been sued by connectu . com for supposedly copying its concept and data , facebook is officially the first worldwide freshman network on the internet . as part of the most popular college networking , facebook is renowned for its lack of prominent advertising . it quickly incurred $ 50 , 000 in credit in 2004 , and it took nearly a year for it to begin turning a dime , so clearly it requested a large amount of venture capital .
Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook.