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Facebook

Facebook (formerly [the Facebook]) is an online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students only, but later on expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University.

It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students.

Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website. 

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After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos and receive notifications when others update their profiles.

Additionally, 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".

Facebook had over 1.3 billion active users as of June 2014. Due to the large volume of data collected about users, the service's privacy policies have faced scrutiny, among other criticisms.

Facebook, Inc. held its initial public offering in February 2012 and began selling stock to the public three months later, reaching an original peak market capitalization of $104 billion. As of February 2015 Facebook reached a market capitalization of $212 Billion.

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Advantages of Facebook :

To connect with family, friends, work and colleges group Information Entertainment To find a date Image and Video hosting Business Promotion To find a job Video calling As personal portfolio Social protest Facebook  is free Facebook security

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Disadvantages of Facebook :

Breach to privacy and personal info Personal status published publicly just to seek attention Fake Facebook profiles Writing worthless things Time consuming Not using Facebook list feature Facebook is addicting:

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Conversation :

• Do you have a Facebook account?

• How often do you check your Facebook account?

• How many friends do you have on Facebook?

• What do you do on Facebook?

• What's the best thing about Facebook?

• How do you protect your album privacy on Facebook?

• Do you know any story about a problem because of Facebook?

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Conversation :

• What's something you don't like about Facebook?

• Have you ever had a problem on Facebook?

• Do you have any celebrity on Facebook?

• What are some privacy concerns when using Facebook?

• Do you have any private album that none of your friends can see?