If there is one thing in the internet that changed how people communicate, it is probably the social networking websites. These social networking or online community websites are the biggest trends nowadays on the World Wide Web. Because of the popularity of these social networking sites, it is estimated that almost ninety percent of the undergraduate students log on to their online community accounts at least once a day. It does not matter whether they have Myspace or Facebook. The impressions made every month can reach for more than a billion.
The number of profiles that are created on each social networking site rapidly grows everyday. One factor that influences this growth is the large traffic volumes. Both the social networking websites called Myspace and Facebook have features that allows its registered users the chance of becoming an expert in social networking. However, it is still important that the users will still remain safe as they log on and access these websites. It is very obvious that Myspace, Facebook, and other online community websites must have its much needed security.
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Facebook information and history
Online community websites are becoming more and more popular as time pass by. One of which is the Facebook which was launched in the beginning of 2004. Facebook was founded by Dustin Moskovitz and Mark Zuckerberg, who are both from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Both are former students of Harvard University. In 2006, Facebook earned as much as 50 million dollars and have at least 200 people working for the company.
Facebook was originally created only for the students of Harvard. Eventually, they added a network for schools within Bosten including Boston College as well as Boston University. After a few months, Face book added the Ivy League schools. And because of the rapidly growing popularity of this online community, almost all of the universities and colleges are already included in the network the next year. Afterwards, those who have a university address all over the world were allowed to join Facebook. This includes the universities located in Australia, Puerto Rico as well as New Zealand. As of the moment, high schools are also included in the community’s network.
The estimated number of registered members in Facebook reaches about 600 million. Because of this, there are so many photos uploaded by its members every day. It has more uploaded photos compared to Photobucket and even Flickr. It is actually considered as the 18th most browsed and visited website all over the world. And in United States, Facebook is the 7th most popular and visited website.
One of the features of this popular online community website is that it allows its registered users to create several albums so that they can organize their photos which can be viewed by their friends. If you are wondering where does the name Facebook came from, it is the paper face book that other colleges and even prep schools give to the staff as well as incoming students so that they can recognize one another by name and by face. At least 85 percent of the students that are studying in college have their profiles created in Facebook. Moreover, at least 85 percent also of these registered users log in to their Facebook accounts every week.
According to the study conducted by a research company located in New Jersey called Student Monitor, Facebook ranked second as the most” in” thing for students all around the world. It even beat the Ipod in the said study. Moreover, it is also estimated that at least 19 minutes every day, these students log on to their Facebook account.
Nobody is required to pay any amount if they want to use Facebook. Facebook earns because of the advertisements or sponsors. Just like any other online community websites that can be used for free, Facebook can boast to its advertisers the demographics as well as the number of users that they have every day. As a result, advertising companies now have an idea as to what advertisement should they place at the website of Facebook so that it can reach the college students. And because of the growing population of Facebook users, they can now even reach to the high school students at the same time.
It was estimated that the average revenue of Facebook in April 2006 alone already reached more than one million. This happened only for half a week. The advertisers were so very pleased. This just means that more than sixty percent of Facebook users log in to their accounts everyday.
On the same year, Quizsender.com has been threatened by Facebook because they copied the image of the latter online community website. Knowing how much money Facebook already had for its back up, Quizsender.com immediately backed down. Afterwards, Facebook decided to make some innovations in their online community website. They add the Facebook Notes where users can blog using other blogging services such as Xanga, Blogger, and Livejournal. As part of its expansion, Facebook also announced that they will be allowing its users to post their advertisements for free. This is their way to compete with the infamous website meant for classified ads – Craigslist. They can do this at the Marketplace section of the website. They may now find a place where they can stay near the campus or within the campus. At the Marketplace, Facebook users can also find work that does not require much travel.
Other than the features mentioned above, Facebook also hosts numerous other features for all the registered users of the online community. They can post messages and notes on the Wall. This is the same with the Comments section in Myspace. Only those who are directly connected with the user can view his or her own Wall. Friends of the Facebook users may also purchase a gift for them. For only a dollar this gift can now be posted on their friend’s wall. There are also gifts that are for free. However, most users do not opt for the one-dollar gift even for the free gift. They go for something that they personally do instead.
It is also a standard etiquette for all the Facebook users to let others know that you exist. This is what they call poking. Through the use of poking, you can interact the other registered users of Facebook. You can also give them an idea how you really feel about them. And since Facebook users log on to their accounts on a daily basis, Facebook also added the Events feature. You can post the events that will be happening for the next few days so that you and your friends will be reminded. Unlike other online community websites, you can pick the Top Friends that you have in your network. Moreover, you also have a wide variety of relationship status to choose from.
There had been rumors spreading that Viacom/Myspace is attempting to buy Facebook. But until now, there is no solid decision from Facebook regarding that rumor. The estimated value of Facebook.com has already reached eight billion dollars.
Facebook was originally created only for the students of Harvard. Eventually, they added a network for schools within Bosten including Boston College as well as Boston University. After a few months, Face book added the Ivy League schools. And because of the rapidly growing popularity of this online community, almost all of the universities and colleges are already included in the network the next year. Afterwards, those who have a university address all over the world were allowed to join Facebook. This includes the universities located in Australia, Puerto Rico as well as New Zealand. As of the moment, high schools are also included in the community’s network.
The estimated number of registered members in Facebook reaches about 600 million. Because of this, there are so many photos uploaded by its members every day. It has more uploaded photos compared to Photobucket and even Flickr. It is actually considered as the 18th most browsed and visited website all over the world. And in United States, Facebook is the 7th most popular and visited website.
One of the features of this popular online community website is that it allows its registered users to create several albums so that they can organize their photos which can be viewed by their friends. If you are wondering where does the name Facebook came from, it is the paper face book that other colleges and even prep schools give to the staff as well as incoming students so that they can recognize one another by name and by face. At least 85 percent of the students that are studying in college have their profiles created in Facebook. Moreover, at least 85 percent also of these registered users log in to their Facebook accounts every week.
According to the study conducted by a research company located in New Jersey called Student Monitor, Facebook ranked second as the most” in” thing for students all around the world. It even beat the Ipod in the said study. Moreover, it is also estimated that at least 19 minutes every day, these students log on to their Facebook account.
Nobody is required to pay any amount if they want to use Facebook. Facebook earns because of the advertisements or sponsors. Just like any other online community websites that can be used for free, Facebook can boast to its advertisers the demographics as well as the number of users that they have every day. As a result, advertising companies now have an idea as to what advertisement should they place at the website of Facebook so that it can reach the college students. And because of the growing population of Facebook users, they can now even reach to the high school students at the same time.
It was estimated that the average revenue of Facebook in April 2006 alone already reached more than one million. This happened only for half a week. The advertisers were so very pleased. This just means that more than sixty percent of Facebook users log in to their accounts everyday.
On the same year, Quizsender.com has been threatened by Facebook because they copied the image of the latter online community website. Knowing how much money Facebook already had for its back up, Quizsender.com immediately backed down. Afterwards, Facebook decided to make some innovations in their online community website. They add the Facebook Notes where users can blog using other blogging services such as Xanga, Blogger, and Livejournal. As part of its expansion, Facebook also announced that they will be allowing its users to post their advertisements for free. This is their way to compete with the infamous website meant for classified ads – Craigslist. They can do this at the Marketplace section of the website. They may now find a place where they can stay near the campus or within the campus. At the Marketplace, Facebook users can also find work that does not require much travel.
Other than the features mentioned above, Facebook also hosts numerous other features for all the registered users of the online community. They can post messages and notes on the Wall. This is the same with the Comments section in Myspace. Only those who are directly connected with the user can view his or her own Wall. Friends of the Facebook users may also purchase a gift for them. For only a dollar this gift can now be posted on their friend’s wall. There are also gifts that are for free. However, most users do not opt for the one-dollar gift even for the free gift. They go for something that they personally do instead.
It is also a standard etiquette for all the Facebook users to let others know that you exist. This is what they call poking. Through the use of poking, you can interact the other registered users of Facebook. You can also give them an idea how you really feel about them. And since Facebook users log on to their accounts on a daily basis, Facebook also added the Events feature. You can post the events that will be happening for the next few days so that you and your friends will be reminded. Unlike other online community websites, you can pick the Top Friends that you have in your network. Moreover, you also have a wide variety of relationship status to choose from.
There had been rumors spreading that Viacom/Myspace is attempting to buy Facebook. But until now, there is no solid decision from Facebook regarding that rumor. The estimated value of Facebook.com has already reached eight billion dollars.
Facebook is the world's largest social network, with 800 million users worldwide as of September 2011.
More than any other company, it has defined what some see as the "social'' era of the Internet, in which connections made among people replace algorithm-driven searches. And its policies, more than any others, seem to be driving the definition of privacy in this new age.
Every day, Facebook users comment or press the “like” button more than 2 billion times and upload more than 250 million photos. The McKinsey Global Institute has estimated that the network's users post 30 billion pieces of content every month.
The company, founded in 2004 by a Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg, began life catering first to Harvard students and then to all high school and college students. It has since evolved into a broadly popular online destination used by teenagers and adults of all ages. In country after country, Facebook has cemented itself as the leader, often displacing other social networks.
It has also become one of the new titans of the Internet, challenging even Google with its vision of a Web tied together by personal relationships and recommendations, rather than by search algorithms. In a major expansion, Facebook has spread itself across other Web sites by offering members the chance to "Like'' something — share it with their network — without leaving the Web page they are on.
In September 2011, Facebook announced features that would let users move beyond clicking "Like" and literally share news and entertainment with their network of friends. For example, a user could log on and discover that one friend is watching “The Hangover,” another is listening to Jay-Z, another is running a race wearing Nike sneakers, etc. Such updates — and the ability to immediately watch or listen to your friends' choices — will influence what you consume. At least that is what Facebook and its dozens of partner companies are hoping, and what search-based companies like Google are dreading.
At the Facebook developer conference in September, the company also announced the release of a product called Timeline, which offers a highly visual view of a user’s Facebook profile and organizes content into photos, events and apps, all based on a timeline view that stretches back to the beginning of a user’s time on Facebook. Timeline is designed to work on mobile devices, too.
An Internet Titan
Facebook has increasingly been seen as the only company to pose a threat to Google, which has used its dominant position in search and online ad placement to expand into most corners of the Web.
But as a closed network, Facebook's oceans of content are out of the reach of Google's search engines, and some analysts think the personal recommendations made through Facebook networks could become a rival to the algorithm-based results pioneered by Google.
In one sign of how much Facebook regards Google as a competitor, The Daily Beast reported that in May 2011 Facebook had hired a public relations firm to persuade reporters and privacy advocates to write stories critical of a new Google service, Social Circles.
Privacy is a sore subject for Facebook, which has made a series of stumbles in that area. With the potential for legal and regulatory clashes growing along with its influence, Facebook has layered its executive, legal, policy and communications ranks with high-powered politicos from both parties, beefing up its firepower for future battles in Washington and beyond.
Disputed Origins
The company's rise has been marked by controversy. Three other Harvard students maintain that they came up with the original idea and that Mr. Zuckerberg, whom they had hired to write code for the site, stole the idea to create Facebook.
The company has denied the allegations. Another Harvard classmate, Aaron Greenspan, claims that he created the underlying architecture for both companies, but has declined to enter in a legal battle.
"The Social Network," a movie released in 2010 about Facebook’s tumultuous origins, offered up what A.O. Scott called "a creation story for the digital age and something of a morality tale, one driven by desire, marked by triumph, tainted by betrayal and inspired by the new gospel: the geek shall inherit the earth."
Facebook has strenuously, and Mr. Zuckerberg more quietly, asserted that such portrayals of the company's founding are fiction. And Mr. Zuckerberg disputed the characterization of him in the film, though in a New Yorker magazine profile, he acknowledged having indulged in a bit of sophomoric arrogance.
Privacy Concerns
Privacy worries have bedeviled Facebook since its early days, from the introduction of the endless scroll of data known as the news feed to, most recently, the use of facial recognition technology to identify people in photographs.
At the nub of all those worries, of course, is how much people share on Facebook, with whom and — perhaps most important — how well they understand the potential consequences.
The back and forth between Facebook and its users over privacy is gaining importance as the company's growth continues unabated. Facebook's policies, more than those of any other company, are helping to define standards for privacy in the Internet age.
The company has struggled to find a balance between giving users too little control over privacy and giving them too much, for fear they won’t share much at all. Seeking a happy medium, Facebook made changes in August 2011 that it said were aimed at helping users get a grip on what they shared.
After the changes were introduced, every time Facebook users added pictures, comments or other content to their profile pages, they could specify who could see it: all of their Facebook friends, a specific group of friends or everyone who has access to the Internet. Icons indicating this replaced the former, more complicated padlock menu. Similar controls were applied to information on users' profile pages.
Implicit in this switch is the challenge brought on by the company's success. Facebook has 800 million users worldwide, with varying degrees of knowledge about what it means to have a life online. There is also the looming prospect that the company will go public, along with abiding concern about potential government regulation or litigation stemming from privacy issues.
Not least, there is the need for Facebook to cultivate the trust of its users, amid growing competition from Google's nascent social networking service, Google Plus, which emphasizes more compartmentalized communications with different sets of friends and acquaintances.
The Goldman Deal
In January 2011, Facebook raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a transaction that valued the company at $50 billion. As part of the deal with Facebook, the bank could raise as much as $1.5 billion from investors for Facebook. The new money gave the company more firepower to hire valuable employees, develop new products and possibly pursue acquisitions — all without being a publicly traded company. The investment also allowed earlier shareholders, including Facebook employees, to cash out at least some of their stakes.
The investment came as the Securities and Exchange Commission began an inquiry into the increasingly hot private market for shares in Internet companies, including Facebook, Twitter, the gaming site Zynga and LinkedIn, an online professional networking site. Some experts suggest the inquiry is focused on whether certain companies are improperly using the private market to get around public disclosure requirements.
Also in January, catching many off guard, Goldman said that it would limit its Facebook offering to foreign investors, excluding clients in the United States because of worries that the deal could run afoul of securities regulations.
The offering to high-net-worth clients was supposed to have been a triumph for the firm, not the serious embarrassment it became. Goldman has been trying to move past run-ins with regulators, including a $550 million settlement with the S.E.C. in 2010 over a complex mortgage investment. The Facebook plan raised new questions about whether Goldman tried to push regulatory boundaries once again.
Mr. Zuckerberg had sought to keep close control over the company, spurning a $1 billion offer from Yahoo in 2006 and playing down the idea of a stock offering. But in the wake of the Goldman investment, Facebook said that it will begin reporting its financial results by April 2012, setting the stage for a likely I.P.O.
More than any other company, it has defined what some see as the "social'' era of the Internet, in which connections made among people replace algorithm-driven searches. And its policies, more than any others, seem to be driving the definition of privacy in this new age.
Every day, Facebook users comment or press the “like” button more than 2 billion times and upload more than 250 million photos. The McKinsey Global Institute has estimated that the network's users post 30 billion pieces of content every month.
The company, founded in 2004 by a Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg, began life catering first to Harvard students and then to all high school and college students. It has since evolved into a broadly popular online destination used by teenagers and adults of all ages. In country after country, Facebook has cemented itself as the leader, often displacing other social networks.
It has also become one of the new titans of the Internet, challenging even Google with its vision of a Web tied together by personal relationships and recommendations, rather than by search algorithms. In a major expansion, Facebook has spread itself across other Web sites by offering members the chance to "Like'' something — share it with their network — without leaving the Web page they are on.
In September 2011, Facebook announced features that would let users move beyond clicking "Like" and literally share news and entertainment with their network of friends. For example, a user could log on and discover that one friend is watching “The Hangover,” another is listening to Jay-Z, another is running a race wearing Nike sneakers, etc. Such updates — and the ability to immediately watch or listen to your friends' choices — will influence what you consume. At least that is what Facebook and its dozens of partner companies are hoping, and what search-based companies like Google are dreading.
At the Facebook developer conference in September, the company also announced the release of a product called Timeline, which offers a highly visual view of a user’s Facebook profile and organizes content into photos, events and apps, all based on a timeline view that stretches back to the beginning of a user’s time on Facebook. Timeline is designed to work on mobile devices, too.
An Internet Titan
Facebook has increasingly been seen as the only company to pose a threat to Google, which has used its dominant position in search and online ad placement to expand into most corners of the Web.
But as a closed network, Facebook's oceans of content are out of the reach of Google's search engines, and some analysts think the personal recommendations made through Facebook networks could become a rival to the algorithm-based results pioneered by Google.
In one sign of how much Facebook regards Google as a competitor, The Daily Beast reported that in May 2011 Facebook had hired a public relations firm to persuade reporters and privacy advocates to write stories critical of a new Google service, Social Circles.
Privacy is a sore subject for Facebook, which has made a series of stumbles in that area. With the potential for legal and regulatory clashes growing along with its influence, Facebook has layered its executive, legal, policy and communications ranks with high-powered politicos from both parties, beefing up its firepower for future battles in Washington and beyond.
Disputed Origins
The company's rise has been marked by controversy. Three other Harvard students maintain that they came up with the original idea and that Mr. Zuckerberg, whom they had hired to write code for the site, stole the idea to create Facebook.
The company has denied the allegations. Another Harvard classmate, Aaron Greenspan, claims that he created the underlying architecture for both companies, but has declined to enter in a legal battle.
"The Social Network," a movie released in 2010 about Facebook’s tumultuous origins, offered up what A.O. Scott called "a creation story for the digital age and something of a morality tale, one driven by desire, marked by triumph, tainted by betrayal and inspired by the new gospel: the geek shall inherit the earth."
Facebook has strenuously, and Mr. Zuckerberg more quietly, asserted that such portrayals of the company's founding are fiction. And Mr. Zuckerberg disputed the characterization of him in the film, though in a New Yorker magazine profile, he acknowledged having indulged in a bit of sophomoric arrogance.
Privacy Concerns
Privacy worries have bedeviled Facebook since its early days, from the introduction of the endless scroll of data known as the news feed to, most recently, the use of facial recognition technology to identify people in photographs.
At the nub of all those worries, of course, is how much people share on Facebook, with whom and — perhaps most important — how well they understand the potential consequences.
The back and forth between Facebook and its users over privacy is gaining importance as the company's growth continues unabated. Facebook's policies, more than those of any other company, are helping to define standards for privacy in the Internet age.
The company has struggled to find a balance between giving users too little control over privacy and giving them too much, for fear they won’t share much at all. Seeking a happy medium, Facebook made changes in August 2011 that it said were aimed at helping users get a grip on what they shared.
After the changes were introduced, every time Facebook users added pictures, comments or other content to their profile pages, they could specify who could see it: all of their Facebook friends, a specific group of friends or everyone who has access to the Internet. Icons indicating this replaced the former, more complicated padlock menu. Similar controls were applied to information on users' profile pages.
Implicit in this switch is the challenge brought on by the company's success. Facebook has 800 million users worldwide, with varying degrees of knowledge about what it means to have a life online. There is also the looming prospect that the company will go public, along with abiding concern about potential government regulation or litigation stemming from privacy issues.
Not least, there is the need for Facebook to cultivate the trust of its users, amid growing competition from Google's nascent social networking service, Google Plus, which emphasizes more compartmentalized communications with different sets of friends and acquaintances.
The Goldman Deal
In January 2011, Facebook raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a transaction that valued the company at $50 billion. As part of the deal with Facebook, the bank could raise as much as $1.5 billion from investors for Facebook. The new money gave the company more firepower to hire valuable employees, develop new products and possibly pursue acquisitions — all without being a publicly traded company. The investment also allowed earlier shareholders, including Facebook employees, to cash out at least some of their stakes.
The investment came as the Securities and Exchange Commission began an inquiry into the increasingly hot private market for shares in Internet companies, including Facebook, Twitter, the gaming site Zynga and LinkedIn, an online professional networking site. Some experts suggest the inquiry is focused on whether certain companies are improperly using the private market to get around public disclosure requirements.
Also in January, catching many off guard, Goldman said that it would limit its Facebook offering to foreign investors, excluding clients in the United States because of worries that the deal could run afoul of securities regulations.
The offering to high-net-worth clients was supposed to have been a triumph for the firm, not the serious embarrassment it became. Goldman has been trying to move past run-ins with regulators, including a $550 million settlement with the S.E.C. in 2010 over a complex mortgage investment. The Facebook plan raised new questions about whether Goldman tried to push regulatory boundaries once again.
Mr. Zuckerberg had sought to keep close control over the company, spurning a $1 billion offer from Yahoo in 2006 and playing down the idea of a stock offering. But in the wake of the Goldman investment, Facebook said that it will begin reporting its financial results by April 2012, setting the stage for a likely I.P.O.
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