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What is Facebook Places?
Facebook Places brings location-based functionality to Facebook.

It allows you to easily share where you are, what you’re doing and the friends you’re with right from your mobile.

You can see who is in your area and catch up with your friends. You will never miss an opportunity to meet a friend when you were so close to them.

What is a conversion tracker?
A conversion tracker is a piece of code that enables advertisers track the number of people who take a specific action.

How is this related to Facebook advertising?
When someone clicks on your ad on Facebook and you have installed the new tracking code on your website, you will now get the results of how many people took a particular action.

Facebook was launched to Harvard-only students on February 4, 2004.

Today, Facebook is used by over 400 million people and employs over 900.

Here is a visual chart to show you Facebook’s growth and events over the past 6 years.

Facebook has had it’s challenges. Growing to over 400 million users within a span of a few years is one of those challenges. With this many members, it’s hard to keep everyone happy. Just look at the backlash they got when they changed the interface. That caused all sorts of PR problems.