Facebook is a social networking site designed to connect friends, family, and co-workers. It is the largest of the social networking sites, and the second place is MySpace. It started as a college networking site and has expanded to include anyone.
Friends can stay connected through the Facebook social networking site.
Facebook was founded in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg and was originally called thefacebook. It was quickly a success on campus and spread beyond Harvard to other Ivy League schools. With the phenomenon growing in popularity, Zuckerberg recruited two other students, Duston Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, to help out. In just a few months, thefacebook became a national college networking site.
Facebook started at Harvard University.
Zuckerberg and Moskovitz left Harvard to run thefacebook full-time shortly after it went national. In August 2005, thefacebook was renamed Facebook and the domain was purchased for $200,000 (USD). At the time, it was only available to schools, universities, organizations, and businesses in English-speaking countries, but has since expanded to include anyone.
Facebook is a social networking site designed to connect friends, family, and co-workers.
Users create a profile page that shows their friends and networks information about them. The option to add a profile to a network means that everyone on that network can see the profile. The profile usually includes the following: information, status, friends, friends on other networks, photos, notes, groups and the wall.
A popular Facebook feature allows users to upload photos taken with a digital camera to the site.
Users can search for friends and acquaintances by email address, school, university, or simply by typing a name or location to search. When people become friends, they can see all of each other’s profiles, including contact information. Email notifications let users know when new friends have chosen to add them to the list or when someone has sent them a message in the system.
Facebook shouldn’t be the only medium a person uses to connect with friends.
A popular feature of the site is the ability to share photos uploaded from a phone, camera, or hard drive. As with other private information, users have the option to allow only their friends or anyone else to see their photos. There is an unlimited amount of storage available, which is a great advantage of Facebook’s photo sharing features.
People can use social networks to find new friends with similar interests.
Users can create groups. This can include anything from elementary school connections to hobbies and interests. Groups can be public and available to everyone, or private, which means only invited guests can join and view discussions. Also, the Events feature allows friends to host parties, concerts, and other gatherings in the real world. Users can also become fans of everything from people, organizations, TV shows, movies, and musicians.
People often use Facebook to share photos of their children with distant relatives.
There are countless apps available to add to a profile. They range from a Top Friends list to movie compatibility with others to maps of where users have traveled. These applications are created by people outside the employment of Facebook who are known as Developers.
Site users can share news, videos and other files with friends. Most news and video websites have buttons that you can click to automatically share the story or video in a feed. The sharer can make comments about the shared item that their friends will see.
Personal notes can also be written and shared with friends. When sharing an item, users can pin the item to their wall for all to see, or they can tag individual people who they think would be most interested in seeing the item. When a user is tagged, they receive an email notification.
The site underwent a redesign in late 2008, with the intention of streamlining the website and making it easier to see what friends were up to. It has seen outstanding growth since its inception and is poised to maintain its dominance on social media. At the beginning of 2009, Facebook’s users worldwide were almost double those of its old competitor MySpace.
Aspiring models can use Facebook as a way to promote past jobs.
