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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Why, why, Tell me WHY?
WHY ? ......
1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?
2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
6. Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
7. Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
8. Why do 'tug' boats push their barges?
9. Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?
10. Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?
11. Why is it call "after dark" when it really is "after light" ?
12. Doesn't 'expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?
13. Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wise guy' opposites?
14. Why do 'overlook and 'oversee' mean opposite things?
15. Why is phonics not spelled the way it sounds?
16. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?
17. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
18. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
19. If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?
20. Why is bra singular and panties plural?
21. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?
22. Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?
23. How come abbreviated is such a long word?
24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?
25. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
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