Facts

• Social networking website• Founded by Mark Zuckerberg • Initially only available to Harvard students• Dominated their main competitor, MySpace• Over 57 million active users• Only requires a valid e-mail address to join• Canada, U.S. and United Kingdom most popular

Mark Zuckerberg

• Born into a Jewish-American family

• Grew up in New York• Attended Harvard• Launched Facebook in

his sophomore year• Moved to California

summer of sophomore year

Total Unique Visitors

Profile Page

•Able to customize your profile page that your friends will be able to view•Includes your information i.e. e-mail, phone number•Education and work•Specific features can be added i.e. graffiti•Photo albums are shown on this page•Groups•Friends

Walls

Standards

Photo Albums

• Very popular feature on facebook

• Easy way of sharing photos with friends

• Able to create numerous albums

• Personal organization tool

as a Source of Evidence

• Photos posted on facebook have been used as evidence

• Facebook is used on the news

• Employers look at facebook

Reasons People Use Facebook

Citations• http://pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement.aspx?CID=isg&mediauid=B5ACC79C-78E5-4CE6-872D-F34E7238683E• http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2008/07/facebook-become.html• http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/02/26/alcohol/• http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/02/on-facebook-girls-and-boys-just-want-to-have-fun/• http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/22/facebook-fatigue-visitors-level-off-in-the-us/• http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_Mark-Zuckerberg_I9UB.html• www.facebook.com