Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Facebook is free for all users and all users have to register before using it. The Facebook’s website is http://www.facebook.com. A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users.
If you ask people why do they use Facebook or why do they like using Facebook, their answer must always be the same “connected with friends”. More than that, there are many reasons why people using Facebook:
Staying connected with friends:
Most people use Facebook to connect with their friends. Users must register before using the site, once they registered with their names; they can create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Once they update their status, their friends in their list can see all that updates. For those people who lost contact with friends a long time, and if their friends have Facebook account too, they can find them easily by entering their friend’s name in the search box then Facebook will show the complete list of people with that name. If they found their friends, they just click “Add as friend”. Once their friends confirm, they can share information each other or any update will alert to them as soon as the new wall message is posted. They can communicate easily with Facebook. They can chat, email, and post in wall message. For example if they want to invite their friends to a party, they just post a message like “Wanna join my party?” so all friend in the list will see the message and they can respond back quickly. 
Talking about email, more and more people are now using Facebook to send emails. Sometime their friends change email address and they may not update each other, but they still have Facebook account, so just send them an email in Facebook is much more faster without knowing their email address. This is easy and quicker.
Sharing information:
Not only communicating with friends, but Facebook is also used to share information to each other. Users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as “People From Work” or “Close Friends”. If they have any hot news and want to share to their friends, they just post in the walls then their friends will see it at real time. That’s why when people have hot news they do not call or email to their friends, but they post in Facebook instead. This is the better way in communication. It save time, and more effective. As long as their friends login, they will immediately see the alerts about the updates.
Entertainment:
Besides sharing information, users can use Facebook for entertaining themselves as well. Since Facebook is built as a social network tool, it allows users can upload their pictures, music, videos, and fun clips to share to their friends in Facebook (I am not quite sure what is the space limit that Facebook allows users to store their files) or they can embed video from other site like YouTube to share in Facebook. If they set the permission to “Public” or “Friends” those stuff will be available for users and their friends respectively. So, their friends can enjoy looking at those stuffs. They can also share their comments below that photos or videos if they like it or want to share. It helps to make their friendship even better.
Boosting Business:
Now most people are starting to use Facebook for their business. As we know Facebook is a social networking website, so it means people sharing information with each other through this website. And every day there are millions of users login to Facebook. It is a good chance for businessmen to advertise their products in Facebook. More and more company now have Facebook account and add more people as friends. When they update their new product information, it will alert to their friends. So, it helps users to learn more about their products and their business is growing better and better. If you login to Facebook today and you will see the advertisement in it. You can also advertise through it and to learn more about the price just check more details in their page.
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