Facebook is a social networking website launched on February 4, 2004. The free-access website is privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. Facebook is a social networking Web site that connects people with friends, much like Friendster and MySpace . It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg , a Harvard University student, in 2004 and quickly grew in popularity. Facebook's rise has been marked by several controversies.

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 completing registration. Facebook is about a generation behind my contributions to the Internet.Facebook boasts more than 200 million active users, with an astounding 100 million logging in at least once per day. Its prominence is not just in numbers of users.

Facebook will grow their service by allowing people to accrue attention in a way they can’t currently in the system. People will realize the same benefits they currently do on Twitter…you can actually start to have an audience that is larger than your current friends list. Facebook argued that it was merely distributing information users had already revealed. The battle--and Facebook's growing market dominance in the past year--show how social networking sites are rupturing the traditional conception of privacy and priming a new generation for complacency in a surveillance society.


Facebook , Joyent and Sun have partnered to provide free scalable, on-demand infrastructure from Joyent to Facebook developers. Joyent’s Accelerator on-demand infrastructure provides the very best load balancers, routing and switching fabric, x86 servers and storage from Sun. Facebook is no different than Orkut or Friendster, it can be replaced. Facebook allows users to customize their privacy settings at a granular level, but a surprisingly low percentage of users actively manage their privacy settings. Many users who complain about the lack of privacy on Facebook aren?t even aware of the privacy configurations available to them.

Facebook's $15 billion valuation, you may recall, was set in the months before Facebook launched "Beacon," its controversial social-marketing system. After a resulting press- and user-privacy flap, Facebook was forced to back off on some of the features that would have helped make Beacon a financial juggernaut. Facebook has confirmed that the site has fallen victim to another phishing attack following this mornings complaints from users that said they noticed a suspicious link that popped up on the site.
Facebook has or should have the right to block access to any site they wish if you don't like it don't use it. There is too much BS about a free internet get grow up and face reality nothing is free. Facebook offers what she describes as a "seamless way of keeping in touch that doesn't involve all this work.". Facebook made under $300 million last year, was a little shy of breaking even, and at first expected to make towards $400 million in revenue this year . But the company said in late March — incidentally at the time that chief financial officer Gideon Yu left the company — that it was beating projections by 70 percent.

 Facebook is a phenomenon that has grown exponentially in a very short time and continues to do so. It was originally used mostly by college students to keep in touch with high school pals, but now recent statistics prove that it has moved beyond its original use and has become an incredibly powerful business networking medium. Facebook is fun, quick, easy and has lots of playtoys and games and friends.

Facebook, just one more way to have all your personal information taken and used to your disadvantage. It is not safe . Facebook is the precursor of something I'm calling mass interpersonal persuasion. That is a new phenomenon and the most important thing to happen in the world of persuasion since the advent of the radio over 100 years ago. Facebook is all about your network knowing what you are doing. You have a news feed that gets broadcast to your network to tell them what you are up to.

however,Facebook needs  not to become Twitter, it needs to move back to what it was originally. Maybe we can't put the genie back in the bottle, but Facebook was more useful when people weren't throwing sheep and having mob wars with each other. Facebook also provides two methods of gathering statistical information: through features called Insights and Polls . Facebook Athenaeum is an open source application that integrates library resources directly into the Facebook website. Facebook is one of the single most-visited websites in the world, and its popularity among college-aged students provides a unique opportunity for libraries to redefine how they interact with students.

according to research,Facebook is frequently used by 85 percent of undergraduate students; and 52 percent of graduates. Facebook is known as a social networking tool for young people. Even more so than MySpace (which has gained recognition in the business world because of its MySpace music channels and other marketing opportunities),and in the end,
Success on Facebook Platform requires a very refined and to-the-point user experience. Success depends on what the organizations goals were for the cause page in the beginning.