The Social Network

Question 1: When Mark Zuckerberg and his classmates launched the site from a Harvard dorm in 2004, what name did it go by before dropping the definite article?

Question 2: Before Facebook and MySpace dominated, which 2002 social network popularized the “friend‑of‑a‑friend” concept but faltered under technical scaling problems, pushing users to newer platforms?

Question 3: In 2006, Facebook unveiled a feature that turned the homepage into a stream of friends’ updates and triggered immediate privacy protests—what was this feature called?

Question 4: What is the name of Facebook’s 2007 developer conference where it opened its platform to third‑party apps, paving the way for hits like Zynga’s FarmVille?

Question 5: Which Google‑owned social network, launched in 2004 and named after its creator, became the dominant online community in Brazil and India during the mid‑2000s?


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