One of the reasons why the internet is so popular nowadays is the existence of several networking sites. Networking services now serve as one of the modern way of socialization and communication.
Facebook is a kind of social networking website that was launched in the month of February 2004. Facebook is owned by the Facebook Incorporated. It has been reported that this social network has about 500 million users worldwide participating actively, this report was dated as of July 2010.
The name Facebook came from the colloquial name for the book that is given to the student during the start of the school year by some universities in the United States. The said book is intended to be able for the students to associate with each other as well as to know each other respectively.
The site lets any user to create a personal profile, add or make some friends as well as to exchange messages with the other registered member. Facebook also allows its users to join any groups in their interest.
Facebook is originally founded by Mark Zuckerberg, together with Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. They are roommates and are fellow computer science student.
At first, this social networking site is only available for the Harvard Students but eventually it expanded to some of the leading universities in the United States.
Facebook is considered as the most used social networking service as rank by compete.com in January 2009; it was followed by MySpace as well as other networking services.
Like the other networking services, Facebook allows its users to create homepage on their own and socialize to the millions of users all over the globe electronically. If you are a member of this site, you are allowed to send message or invitation to those people you may know such as your friends or you relatives to join into your network. If they accept your invitation then those people will become your new added friends in the site.
Here you can be able to change or update your current status in the profile as well as you can share to your network what you want to share. Your network friends can be able to write comments or send a private message to you including videos or photos.
You can also find some people you may know such like you childhood friends, classmates in high school and elementary and other, provided they are registered in Facebook and registered the correct name that you are looking.
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