0845050 Facebook
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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