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Facebook and R The Renren Network (Chinese: 人人网; literally Everyones Website), formerly known as Xiaonei Network (Chinese: 校内网; literally on-campus network) is a Chinese social networking service that is similar to Facebook. It has been called the Facebook of China. It is popular among college students in China. In February 2011, Renren made a pre-IPO announcement that it had 160 million registered users.Then in April 2011, it had to modify that statement to a total of 31 million active monthly users.The site has had to comply with prohibitions on content enforced by the Chinese Government. Its founder Wang Xing later founded Fanfou, a popular Twitter clone X was literally a Facebook clone when it started, sporting the same shade of blue and the same layout. ReadWriteWeb guest writer Gang Lu wrote on this blog in June 2008 that X was like a simplified version of Facebook in Chinese when it was first launched. He noted that it had the same layout, same color scheme and even a very similar logo, which he said made people wonder if there was an official connection with Facebook. Founded Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (2004 ) Founder(s) Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin Dustin Moskovitz Chris Hughes Headquarters Menlo Park, California, U.S. Area served Worldwide Type of site Social networking service Website F Alexa rank 2 (March 2012[update]) Advertising Banner ads, referral marketing, casual games Registration Required Available in Multilingual Launched February 4, 2004 (2004-02-04) Current status Active Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook Inc. As of February 2012[update], Facebook has more than 845 million active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The Web sites membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was