Saturday, 24 October 2009

Do you have a facebook?



You are probably one of the million users of the world's largest social network! Facebook is a social networking website created by Mark Zuckerberg with his co-students while they were studying computer science at Harvard university in 2004. At first, if you wanted to become a member you had to be a student at Harvard university but later on it expanded including any university student, high school students and finally anyone aged 13 and over. The site currently has more than 300.000.000 active users worldwide. We use facebook to chat with friends, exchange photos, play games, watch videos and many more! What makes facebook so popular is the fact that it keeps us in touch with our friends' lifes even if they live far away. But why would someone invest so much money to provide a tool for internet users to exchange personal information online? The answer is advertisment money and marketing companies. Facebook is gathering so much information about its users that marketing experts can use them to sell the right product to the right person! So use facebook wisely and avoid giving more information than necessary! Do you have a Facebook account? Why do you use Facebook for?