Facebook Overview
In just one sentence, Facebook is a social networking website in the World Wide Web that boasts over 50 million registered users all over the world! Face book competes with Orkut, MySpace, and Friendster for a major chunk of the social networking pie.
So, what Facebook is all about? What it offers to the netizens? Before seeing the answer to these questions, let’s take a peep into the history of Facebook, and how it began.
Facebook is of recent origin, started on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg for the members of Harvard College in US. Drawing inspiration from its rapid success, the website was soon expanded to include other Boston schools, Ivy League schools, and eventually to anybody with an email address, from across the world. Now Face book website is ranked as the 7th most visited websites in the web, and first in terms of photos.
Back to Facebook; it is a social networking website where people could register themselves and get to interact or communicate with other similarly registered people from all over the world – mostly friends – in a virtual community environment. The website also serves as a common platform for forums and discussions – under the umbrella of different communities - on various topics under the sun. A major share of its users are still youngsters, but the Facebook mania is fast catching up with elders as well, especially parents whose sons/daughters may be staying away for work/study from them.
A major aspect that draws people to Facebook is its robustness and ease of use, and also security. Not anybody could view every other’s profile unless the other person lets it so.
In order to start using Facebook, the user has to first register his/her name using work email id or school name and open an account in the website. Once done that, he/she can invite other friends to join the community – be his/her friends – or form communities based on a subject, place, discipline or simply anything. In short, with Face book, one could lead a virtual, geographically boundless social existence in the World Wide Web. Other features in the website include photo and video upload, publishing, tagging, privacy settings on personal profile (that none could browse through a second person’s profile unless he/she chooses it to be made public), event scheduler, forming communities/listings, scribble notes on other’s ‘walls’ (similar to scraps in scrapbook in Orkut), messaging to email, market place, search etc to name a few.
Facebook encourages creativity in plenty as well. So, Face book members could design their own gadgets – complete applications that are useful and relevant – which they can then choose to use. The possibilities are endless for the talented and innovative.
To conclude, Face book is a user friendly social networking site that is safe, robust and vibrant. Register your name in www.facebook.com and see it for yourself!
Tail Piece: Those who are curious about the expenses in running Face book, they get it through paid advertisements. Face book, with its 50+ million registered users is a ready-to-tap customer base that no sensible and big internet business could afford to overlook easily.
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The new father!
A doctor was holding a new baby that he had just delivered.
The baby looked up at him and said, "Are you my father?"
The doctor said, "No, I am the doctor that delivered you." Then the doctor handed the baby to the nurse.
While the nurse was cleaning the baby the baby looked at the nurse and said, "Are you my father?"
The nurse said, "No, I am just the nurse." Then the nurse gave the baby to the new father.
The baby looked at him and said, "Are you my father?"
The new father said proudly, "Yes! I am your father."
Then the baby started poking his father in the forehead over and over again and said, "So how do YOU like it?!"
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