LUCPHM125/LNC/DPH/JUL11/24/FACEBOOK

FUNDAMENTAL OF
COMPUTER
TITLE: 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

• 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 Facebook
is becoming more recognizable as the number
of active members increases.

Facebook provides several ways to find
friends

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.

ADVANTAGES
Facebook 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 Facebook
Facebook 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 Facebook
Time-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.

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