Facebook rings opening bell from headquarters on IPO day

On its IPO day, Facebook rang the opening bell remotely from its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The social network behemoth finished moving onto the 57-acre campus in December. Here’s a look at the massive campus.

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The Facebook campus is shown in Menlo Park, Calif. The company Mark Zuckerberg created as a Harvard student eight years ago is preparing for what looks to be the biggest Internet IPO ever.

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A worker sits in a lounge area next to a wall mural at Facebook's huge campus.

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The arcade room at the company's Menlo Park California headquarters is shown.

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A mural on one of the wall inside Facebook's headquarters is shown.

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People wait at the check-in desk at the Facebook office.

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A worker is shown next to another wall mural at Facebook's headquarters.

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Employees work at the Facebook office in Menlo Park.

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A Facebook employee walks through the cafeteria.

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An employee rides a bicycle at Facebook's new headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The 1-million-square-foot campus, which formerly housed Sun Microsystems, features open work spaces for nearly 2,000 employees with room for expansion.

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Employees work in an office at the Menlo Park campus.

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The Facebook name tops a beverage cooler at the headquarters of the world's most popular social networking Web site.

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A street sign in the parking lot at Facebook's headquarters.

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Facebook User Operations team member Kristie Chow checks a page of the No. 1 social networking Web site at Facebook's headquarters.

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Employees walk past the company logo at Facebook's headquarters.

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A thumbs-up "Like" icon is on the door at the entrance to Building 10 at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park.

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An employee walks past "The Facebook Wall," a chalkboard on which employees can write or draw whatever they want.

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Facebook employees work in a communal work space.

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An employee walks past a Superman costume hanging on a phone booth door. Employees can hold private cellphone discussions in the booth.

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Facebook employees work at the company's Menlo Park campus.

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Adam Varro, manager of Facebook Marketing Solutions, uses a treadmill as he checks his e-mail.

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Facebook employees work at their desks at the company's campus.

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Chalkboard drawings by employees are seen at Facebook's main campus.

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A Facebook employee tries to access a room on the company's campus.

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An art and message board is seen in a hallway.

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A Facebook employee works on a laptop computer in one of the company's lounge areas.

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A conference room at Facebook's campus.

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Workers talk inside the lobby area.

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Facebook's signage is displayed outside the company's headquarters.

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Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg speaks to employees during the company's Hackathon at the Menlo Park campus the day before the IPO. Facebook holds a Hackathon every few months where staff members build prototypes for new ideas they have.

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Facebook employees participate in the company's Hackathon in Menlo Park.

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The sun rises behind the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park. The eight-year-old social network company listed its initial public offering on Nasdaq on Friday morning at $38 a share and a valuation of $104 billion, making its IPO the third largest in U.S. history.

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Television news reporters work outside Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., before the company's IPO launch, May 18.

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A Facebook employee enters the company's headquarters in Menlo Park before the company's IPO launch.

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Two Facebook employees share a high five outside Facebook headquarters May 18.

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Traffic flies by the entrance sign to Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., before the company's IPO launch.

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Mark Zuckerberg, center, Facebook co-founder, chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, rings the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market May 18 from the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The social media company priced its IPO on Thursday at $38 per share.

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