Living in the 21st century, Facebook has pretty much taking over our world. We have reached a point where we believe that if you do not have a Facebook, then you do not have a life. About hundreds of people join Facebook every day, making it one of the most visited websites in the world, with about 585 million active members. 585 million! You might think that this is too much, but in fact, there are actually four main categories of Facebook users in the world—“annoying-Facebook-girl,” the “Simon-Cowell,” the “attention-seeking-whore,” and the “I’m-too-cool-for-Facebook.” Each and every user in these categories specializes in a particular way of participating on Facebook: a way of updating their statuses, how they comment, how many pictures they upload every day, and how often they spend their time on Facebook.…
Facebook is a form of communication medium that encourages universalism as it breaks down barriers across all ages, continents, gender, race, religion and thus helps to eliminate discrimination. Facebook is a worldwide network, it brings together families as they are able to remain friends and often communicate with others. “One of the ideas of communication is to spread information, and Facebook helps to achieve this, “states Professor Sethi, who teaches at MIT about business communication. The social network’s ability to be accessed through the internet, by mobile handsets as well as through computers, has increased its usage. Facebook, provides better access to information, this is because it…
One of the new phenomenon’s of our generation is facebook, and with over four hundred million users on it, it is definitely not hard to add friends easily. However, Facebook is also an easy way to replace the outside world with spending all day surfing other peoples profiles. Facebook is a social networking website that was originally designed for college students, but is now open to anyone 13 years of age or older. Facebook users can create and customize their own profiles with photos, videos, and other information about themselves. Also, friends can browse the profiles of other friend’s pages and comment on their updated status or just write on the wall of the person. Facebook is a great website for finding old friends and connecting to new ones, however using the site too much can make people less inclined to interact face to face with other people.…
Facebook offers various ways for its users to interact. Facebook is a social network service that allows its users to create a profile and join various types of self-contained networks such as colleges and universities. Facebook is an internet born company that uses web 2.0 technologies.…
Nowadays, Facebook uses have increasingly become an integral part of everyone’s daily routines and it must be exists in everyone’s life.Facebook has more than 750 million users worldwide. Facebook is used to keep in touch and sharing life or mood with friends. There are lots of benefits of using Facebook. Still, Facebook gives a limited view of our friends’ lives and the view tends to be unrealistically positive.…
Everyone from the young to the old is using Facebook as an efficient way of communicating and finding old friends. Apart from Facebook being a new and interesting way to interact with friends and family, there is a lot more things to do while logging on to the site. Users could play games, use other fun applications such as horoscopes, love tallies and typing challenges, find new friends and hunt crushes. For all its ease and intent of providing a means of keeping people connected, entertaining user, Facebook could not have imaged that its conception would emerge one of the biggest worldwide phenomenons that has ever seen. There is a lot to be said in support of this, but there are some sad truths involved too.…
Appearing on the world stage in 2003, Facebook has revolutionized the average person’s social network into an unprecedented web of information available in the palm of a hand. With just a few clicks or taps on one’s mobile app, one can meet people, see friends from high school and even make contacts with potential business interests. Unfortunately, social networking sites like Facebook have not made the world a better place because it is a waste of time for the user. As time is important to people, it can be better spent doing productive things, beneficial for one’s life.…
Many people believe that Facebook is dangerous for users because of the amount of information that can be added on to one’s account. Also those who oppose the use of the site feel that time should not be spent online because it takes time away from family and puts more emphasis on virtual rather than physical relationships. Others feel that this site allows for socialization and is just a way to have fun and keep in touch with others.…
“Facebook is an online social networking service, whose name stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other”.[2] “It was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[3]” After two years in 2006, Facebook becomes worldwide, and people from different parts of the world know about Facebook and start using it. Nowadays, Facebook, with 1.01 billion users world wild, and 584 million active users each day, has its unique and successful business model.…
Facebook is one of the fastest growing social networks on the Internet. Nowadays, millions of people use Facebook and they spend their time on Facebook.Do you know the history of Facebook? Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg who studied in Harward University on 4th of February in 2004. Six years later, the site became one of the biggest web sites in the world, visited by 400 million people a month.He was only 19 years old when he founded this social network.This wasn’t the first site of Zuckerberg because his first website was called ‘facemash’ ,and it had information and pictures about Harvard University’s students.However,facemash was closed by the university because he used the information and pictures without permission.After that, Zuckerberg took a break and started to work on his new project.He provided users with facilities such as adding their friends,uploading their photos, and communicating with their friends, and he named this website ‘thefacebook’. Facebook came from “paper facebook”. The universities in the USA have such a form that students and teachers fill to introduce themselves.…
Social networking sites, most notably Facebook have become so popular today that they are the leading words on the lips of every teenager. Facebook has more than 750 million users today. You love to spend most of your time checking your Facebook updates, but do you know that there are many negative effects of using Facebook.…
Facebook.com (Facebook), the most popular and widely used online social network website, has created frenzy among college students in recent years. Facebook emerged on February 4, 2004, when a 19-year-old sophomore Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg founded the revolutionary site to connect Harvard University students (Grossman, 2010). Zuckerberg, at the time of Facebook‘s inception, had no idea Facebook would evolve into the social network giant it is today (“Existence of Facebook”, 2010). At present, college students have become very active in online social networking and are the largest percentage of Facebook users today (“Facebook Population”, 2012).…
To begin with, facebook causes students to lack in their studies and school. When facebook is accessible at school, children spend their time on facebook when they should be studying and concentrating on their assigned tasks. Facebook is like a dark hole for children that will ruin their career and future. Also, having access to facebook in computer oriented classrooms causes children to concentrate on facebook instead of the teacher’s lectures. Furthermore, facebook is like a jail, you sit in front of it all day and you do not experience the things happening around you. Facebook also snatches away any form of physical activity children should have during school.…
Facebook is an important social networking service. Its name stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some American university administrations to help students get to know each other. It was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate. Its…
As it progresses, people of different classes find Facebook a common channel to get connected while long lost friends are found. Old photos are posted, reminding us the good old days. According to Xavire Lur (2010), if Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populated with the number of 400 million population which just left behind China and India. Today, Facebook is a phenomenon that some people find it a necessity which is hard to resist, let alone ignore.…