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FACEBOOK

July 26, 2012

Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. As of May 2012, Facebook has over 900 million active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device.Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People from Work" or "Close Friends". The name of the service 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. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site.

History of Facebook:
URL Type of site Registration Available language(s) Users Owner Facebook.com Social networking service Required Multilingual 901 million (active April 2012) Facebook, Inc.

Created by

Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin Andrew McCollum Dustin Moskovitz

FACEBOOK

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Launched Revenue Current status

February 4, 2004 Advertising Active

Positive Effects of Facebook: Facebook is free and it's one of the best medium for communication. With Facebook you can connect to any type of people from anywhere in the world because almost every people around the world use Facebook . Facebook is best for finding Old friends. When a friend goes away to any other place we often don't get the chance to communicate with him or her. But now Facebook gives us the opportunity to communicate with any of our Old friend. We can share our feelings an what's happening around in our daily life through Facebook. We can also get feedback from our friends. It is the best medium to share your feelings and thoughts with others. Facebook has good privacy setting which gives you the option to customize according to your wish. Facebook Fan pages, groups, events etc are getting popular day by day. You can use these Fan pages & groups for promotional activities. If you would like

Young adults who spend more time on Facebook are better at showing "virtual empathy" to their online friends.

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Online social networking can help introverted adolescents learn how to socialize behind the safety of various screens, ranging from a two-inch Smartphone to a 17-inch laptop. Social networking can provide tools for teaching in compelling ways that engage young students.

Negative Effects of Facebook: Facebook is Addicting! Facebook is too much addicting. It is indeed addicting which often kills valuable time. Fake profile is one of the biggest disadvantages of Facebook. Now it has become easier to create fake profile. People often use fake profile to insults or harassing someone. There are plenty of groups and Fan pages out there which is being created to abuse or violate other religion, personalities, nation etc. Facebook often brings bad effects on students results. Students who are Facebook addicted do a bad result on his or her exams. Beside students, a person who works in offices wastes their time in browsing Facebook. That's why many offices have decided to block Facebook completely. From different newses it is found that sometimes Facebook can be life threatening. Many unknown people can track your activities and where you are going. As a result you can face trouble. News also found that one mother killed her child because it was crying in hunger while she was browsing Facebook. Or a husband killed her wife because she changed her relationship status. Facebook will reduce social skills, communication skills, as well as verbal skills if you spend most of your time with the internet. It reduce the Time for Study, which is very harmful for a student Less Family Concern Sometimes, Facebook friends are more important than those of family members.

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So from the above statement it is clear that Facebook can be dangerous as well. Solution: Admin of Facebook should take some necessary steps for fake profile and fake fan pages. Facebook is very addicting, so need a strong family concern to reduce it. School, college and universities should take some awareness program about it Government takes also a monitoring program about threatening in face book and establish strong rule against social networking services. All offices are needing block Facebook completely. Because it hamper time and brake work concentration.

References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook http://tnvrstar.hubpages.com/hub/The-advantages-and-disadvantagesof-using-Facebook http://tnvrstar.hubpages.com/hub/The-advantages-and-disadvantagesof-using-Facebook

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