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The Facebook effect : the inside story of the company that is connecting the world by David Kirkpatrick, Simon & Schuster, 2010
New Book Shelf HD9696.8.U64 F335 2010

In just six and a half years, the Internet social networking site Facebook has amassed half a billion users, making it what author David Kirkpatrick says is probably the fastest growing company ever in terms of customers. This book, describing how Facebook keeps evolving, the controversies it has faced, and what the future holds, and was written with Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg's knowledge and is based on extensive interviews with him.

The book chronicles Facebook's surprising Ivy League beginnings in a Harvard University dormitory and how it spread to other college campuses and high school audiences to its present status as a grassroots global phenomenon with the power to shake business and government.

The Facebook effect : the inside story of the company that is connecting the world is currently available for 4-week check out. You can find it in the New Books Area (call number HD9696.8.U64 F335 2010).