|Look up facebook in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.| A face
book or facebook is a printed or online directory found at
American universities consisting of individuals’ photographs and
names. In particular, it denotes publications of this type
distributed by university administrations at the start of the
academic year with the intention of helping students get to know
each other. Colleges and universities in the United States often
published official or unofficial books listing their students,
faculty, or staff, together with pictures and limited
biographical data. By the early 2000s some face books were being
published online offering a number of new features, including
password protection, more detailed information, more advanced
indexing and searching, and the ability for people to upload and
enter information and photographs. In early 2004, Mark
Zuckerberg, a sophomore at Harvard University, created an
unofficial online face book at the website "thefacebook.com",
the forerunner of the Facebook service, o