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A social networking website that allows you to connect with other people around the world.

You can do plenty of things including: Chat Play online flash games Create events Share pictures, videos, and status Create & join groups Like a certain status, group, or person

What exactly is Facebook?

Founded in 2004 by Mark E. Zuckerberg (Havard student) with help from his roommates Dustin Moskovitz & Chris Hughes Wrote the software for the Facemash website when he was in his second year of college Facebook was originally for Harvard students then expanded to other colleges then to anyone over the age of 18 and now currently to anyone 13 years of age or older.

History of Facebook

Facebook

Connect with friends and make

new friends around the

world

Share interest, exchange

private & public messages and join groups

Privacy ControlYou can control who can access your Facebook

page

Create a page and

share pictures &

videos

Where Facebook users spend their time

Posting on walls : 49% Newsfeed: 45% Searching for people: 26% Sending emails: 20% Playing games: 17% Visiting your fan pages: 14% Other: 10%

901 million user accounts 3.2 million likes and comments per day 300 million photos uploaded per day 42 million pages till now 9 million apps 60 million videos view per day 488 million monthly mobile users Women are more likely to spend their time posting on walls More than 3.5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day Chinese government blocked Facebook, so people in China

can’t use or access to Facebook

Interesting facts about Facebook

Facebook allows people to connect, to learn from each other, to discuss issues, viewpoints, and share advice.

Facebook is free and it’s one of the best medium for communication.

Facebook as source of information & news. Facebook provides entertainment, tons of gaming and

other applications. Facebook has good privacy setting which gives you the

option to customize according to your wish. Through Facebook Ads and Fans page you can advertise

your business.

Advantages of Facebook

Addictions which causes many problems Fake profile Facebook often brings bad effects on

students result Wasting times

Disadvantages of Facebook