Saturday, March 14, 2009

The Facebook social networking

Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.

Facebook has met with some controversy over the past few years. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria[8] and Iran.[9] It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service.[10] Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. It is also facing several lawsuits from a number of Zuckerberg's former classmates, who claim that Facebook had stolen their source code and other intellectual property.

Reaction:

For me my reaction about facebook is is users may choose to join one more network,
organize that city, work place, school, and region. These network help users connect with members of the some network. Users can do also with friends, giving them all access to their friends profiles. The microsoft is facebook exclusive partner for serving banner advertising, and such as facebook only serves advertisements that exist in microsoft advertisement inventory.



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