Friday 7 August 2015

What is Facebook?

Facebook, a popular social networking website that makes it so easy for you to connect and share photos and videos with your family and friends online, it was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was enrolled at Harvard University.

For many people, having a fFacebook account is now an expected part of being online, much like having your own email address. And since Facebook is so trendy, other websites have worked to integrate Facebook. This means you can use a single Facebook account to sign in to different services across the Web.

Within each member's personal profile, there are several key networking components. The most popular is arguably the Wall, which is essentially a virtual bulletin board. Messages left on a member's Wall can be text, video or photos as mentioned before.

Another popular component is the virtual Photo Album. Photos can be uploaded from the desktop or directly from a smartphone camera. There is no limitation on quantity, but Facebook staff will remove inappropriate or copyrighted images.

An interactive album feature allows the member's contacts (who are called generically called "friends") to comment on each other's photos and identify (tag) people in the photos.

Another popular profile component is status updates, a microblogging feature that allows members to broadcast short Twitter-like announcements to their friends. All interactions are published in a news feed, which is distributed in real-time to the member's friends.

Facebook users can see only the profiles of confirmed friends and the people in their networks. Be a little wary about the information you share on Facebook.

If you display your town, date of birth, marital status and other personal facts, someone might be able to get enough information to steal your identity. There are other things Facebook adds on - you can play games across the internet, you can tell it which book you’re reading at the moment, you can rate films and get recommendations.

You can join groups of people with similar interests, you can join Facebook groups representing your favourite TV or radio programmes and chat to like-minded people about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

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