Facebook

[|Facebook] I will be focusing on Facebook and its role played in Web 2.0. Facebook is possibly the most popular social networking site currently operating with 350 million active users worldwide.

It is more popular than other similar sites like BEBO, My space etc. Facebook decided to disallow users to edit the theme of their personal page, unlike most other similar sites which allow users to change colour schemes, backgrounds, themes etc

It was created by some college students in order to communicate work information and programmes. It has since expanded exponentially to the level it as now. Facebook facilitates many different features such as personal ‘walls’ and statuses. It will it allow you to add and delete friends and comment on other peoples statuses. Facebook has been adding many sideline features in order to keep people interested and also to increase their number of users which will in turn increase their revenue. Facebook earns its money by banner ads on the sides of the actual Facebook page.

Facebook was created by a student by the name of Mark Zuckerburg and is still currently in his possession. Facebook has experimented with many new features. One of their most recent is ‘Facebook Lite’. Facebook Lite contains the fundamentals of Facebook but has been downsized for use by people in countries with very slow internet connections. Facebook lite removed most third party applications and any un-necessary’s in order to allow those people with slower bandwidth to access Facebook.

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Mike Jeff