Looking into how Facebook moved from a college messaging app to one of the most prominent apps in the world.Facebook has emerged over the years to become one of the largest tech companies in modern history. Depending on who you ask, the story of how Mark Zuckerberg built a behemoth social network can be quite controversial. If you've watched the 2010 film The Social Network, then you have a clue of how Facebook was launched in a Harvard College dorm.What is quite obvious is Mark had a knowledge of basic programming skills from an early age.Use these skills to design A software for his father's dentistry called Zuckman.This basic software allowed his father to communicate with his receptionist.However, it is at Harvard that the foundation of what would end up as Facebook was born.Mark took his coding skills to another level by developing facemash.Which was a website that allowed students to vote on the most attractive woman?While the application was quite popular, it did not last long as he did not seek the consent for publishing the students photos.It's on February 4th, 2004, that what is Facebook was launched?The application's original name was the Facebook launch and allowed users to upload a profile photo, then share their interests.People were able to connect with each other and this grew their user base from 1200 to over 1,000,000 at the end of the year.To this large user base was achieved as the site moved to other Ivy League schools within the Boston area.Mark sued by fellow students.It was not smooth sailing from Mark Zuckerberg as he was sued by fellow students Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narenda for stealing their idea.The matter was finally settled in 2008 when Mark reached a settlement with them by offering them 1.2 Facebook shares.When the site was incorporated in 2004, it moved its headquarters to Palo Alto, CA with Sean Parker as its first president.The name the was dropped the following year and facebook.com domain was registered for $200,000.In August 2008, its user base was a whopping 100 million users.And the following year the site had hit over one trillion page views.Facebook finally hit 1 billion users in 2012.Hence, making it one of the most popular social media sites.Facebook user Base has been a phenomenal growth from its start where it barely had a million subscribers, 2 /, 2.5 billion at the end of 2018.However, from 2015 to 2018, the growth has been slower. Expansion plans.Once the company was registered, it continued to expand rapidly into other products.In 2007, Facebook started its Facebook marketplace, which now allowed them to classify ads.In 2008, the Facebook chat was launched and this took the idea of instant messaging to another level when the company was launched.It benefited a lot from Angel funding, receiving $500,000 from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, 12.7 million from Excel, and 1,000,000 from venture capitalist Jim Breyer.Facebook also launched the Facebook application developer platform.That allowed game developers to create games that would integrate with Facebook.