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Facebook is one of the many social networking websites in the internet. Social networking has become very popular over the years. This social networking website enables us to share personal details, interact with other Facebook users, play games and use all sorts of applications.
L. Grossman (2007) Facebook has grown into popularity because of its classy and upmarket feel to it. Most people in Facebook use their real names compare to other social networking websites. They declare their genders, relationship's statuses and job affiliations.
Facebook Ceo Mark Zuckerberg decribes Facebook as "A lot of companies get grouped as social networking," says Zuckerberg. "Lots are dating sites, or media sites or sites for community. But our mission is helping people understand the world around them." (D. Kirkpatrick 2oo6)
Facebook also gives you a level of privacy compared to any other online social network website. For example you can set your privacy setting according to your groups. You can show your full details to a specific group you like to share it with and limit it to those from a different group.
More than 60% return to Facebook to find out what their friends are doing, check messages, send messages to others, and upgrade their profiles. These applications give facebook the edge compared to all other social networks.
Reference:
L.Grossman (2007) Why Facebook Is the Future, Time [online, accesed November 7 2008] URL:<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1655722,00.html>
D. Kirkpatrick (2005) Why Facebook matters [online, accessed 8 November 2008]
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