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FUNDAMENTAL OF COMPUTERTITLE: Mark Zuckerberg and his
Social Network
Prepared by: ABDUL KADIR HASSAN
LNC/DPH/JUL11/24
Introduction• Facebook is a social networking
website founded by Mark Zuckerberg. This website allows you to stay in touch with either friends or family. Facebook has functions which allow you to chat with friends, video conversations with people and you can play games too online. You can post statuses, video or blogs.
Biography• Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May
14, 1984, in Dobbs Ferry, New Yor has a comfortable, well-educated family. His father, Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice attached to the family's home. His mother, Karen, worked as a psychiatrist.
• Zuckerberg developed an interest in computers at an early age; when he was about 12, he used Atari BASIC to create a messaging program he named "Zucknet."
• While still in high school, he created an early version of the music software Pandora, which he called Synapse. Several companies—including AOL and Microsoft—expressed an interest in buying
HOW FACEBOOK WORK?HOW FACEBOOK WORK?
• In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, three Harvard University students, launched a Web site designed to put students in touch with one another, share their photos and meet new people. They called it thefacebook.com. In August of that year, the site's name changed to Facebook.
• To explore Facebook, you must create a free account on the site. Facebook's terms of use state that members must be at least 13 years old, and any member between the ages of 13 and 18 must be enrolled in school. Facebook requires new members to provide a valid e-mail address before
The logo of social networking Web site Facebookis becoming more recognizable as the numberof active members increases.
Facebook provides several ways to find friendsYou can
browse and join networks
regions
Colleges
workplaces
high schools
Facebook Profiles
Facebook Applications
• photos application• video application • groups application• events application • posted items application • gifts application
Facebook Mobile• You can access Facebook
features using a mobile device like a cell phone in three ways: mobile text
messages, mobile uploads and mobile Web browsing
SMS Madness• Facebook isn't the only social networking
service that takes advantage of SMS text transfers.Twitter, a micro-blogging
service, uses SMS to let members send messages called Tweets to a network of friends at the same time. Several people
have developed applications that integrate SMS with services
like LiveJournal, Blogger and MySpace, among others.
ADVANTAGESFacebook for Networking:
You can use Facebook to connect with your Family, Friends, Work colleague and to meet new people. Specially, this is the best way to
find your school, college or any other old profile.
More over, it’s easy to find like-minded people by seeing their interest and you can easily
connect with them using Wall updates, Private message, Poke or text and video chat.
Facebook for business: Anyone, can take advantages of Facebook to
maintain a good relationship with others, who identify with certain tastes or products, is very
important, because later you can sell a product or promote products or services, thus increasing the
possibilities of making money on the Internet. Facebook allows the establishment of partnerships
between various projects. More over, using Facebook fan page, you can
increase your brand value and social media presence for your business. Facebook, helps you to find new
leads and client, if you use it properly.
Facebook as source of information & news:Talking about positives of Facebook, it’s a real-
time social networking site and it’s one of the best source to stay updated with latest news
and updates. More over, major news usually goes viral on
Facebook and you will not miss important updates. Bloggers and Internet marketers can subscribe to popular blog Fan pages and keep
themselves with latest updates. I
Facebook launched Facebook timeline in beta sometime back
and it gives a complete new look in terms of your personal
profile branding.
The disadvantages of FacebookFacebook privacy:
In the past, it has created many buzz due to sudden change in Fb privacy settings but now Facebook has
simplified it’s privacy setting. But due to ignorance and lack of understand
Facebook privacy feature, people make many mistakes which you can find out from below
example. Another situation to consider has to do with the availability of information too personal, whether in
video, pictures or text. Never give out too much personal information.
The disadvantages of FacebookTime-consuming:
people spend too much time on this social networking site.
Fb offers many entertainment applications and games which will keep user engaged. Apart from
Facebook chat and Facebook video chat are another two-time consuming feature.
If you want to use Facebook for your advantages, use it for certain time limit in a day. Too much of Facebook, might make you Facebook addict and you might end up wasting too much time on Fb.
Conclusion: Facebook is used in the right proportions and
with proper care can be a powerful tool for marketing and networking. Specially, for any
online or offline business, you can leverage the power of Facebook for success of your business.
Though, looking at all the advantages of Facebook, I would say we can always disregard various Facebook disadvantages. Inclusive you
can make money on Facebook. It’s why Facebook has become, in a short time, one of
the most widely used marketing tools in today’s world.