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Facebook An Innocent Social Media Platform Or A Complex Intelligence Gathering Apparatus

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  Of the 2.2 billion Facebook account owners very few know the origins and the historical circumstances that paved the way for the creation of the social media platform. Most of them are happy with the discovery of friends and distant relatives, relegated to the dark recesses of their memory. Overwhelmed by joy, friends and relatives lost decades ago are suddenly placed on a high pedestal, and strong ties are developed to satisfy a thirst for deep roots badly needed to control feelings of alienation imposed on them by the bitter modern realities of industrialization. Facebook was the brainchild of Mr. Mark Zuckerberg back in 2004. With a group of friends he was engaged in an uphill battle to set up, from a humble dorm room of Harvard University, the basic foundations of a dream no one thought will become in a couple of decades a commercial empire with billions of dollars in revenues. Serendipity, synchronicity, luck, strategic orientation, whatever you prefer to call it stimu