The Facebook effect : the inside story of the company that is connecting the world /

Kirkpatrick, David, 1953 January 14-

The Facebook effect : the inside story of the company that is connecting the world / David Kirkpatrick. - 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011. - 372 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [340]-354) and index.

Prologue: the Facebook effect -- The beginning -- Palo Alto -- Social networking and the Internet -- Fall 2004 -- Investors -- Becoming a company -- Fall 2005 -- The CEO -- Privacy -- 2006 -- The platform -- $15 billion -- Making money -- Facebook and the world -- Changing our institutions -- The evolution of Facebook -- The future.

9781439102121 (pbk.) 9781439102114 (hbk.) 9781439109809 (ebk.)


Facebook (Firm)


Internet industry--United States.
Online social networks--History.

HD9696.8.U64 / F335 2011