FUNDAMENTAL OF COMPUTERTITLE: 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

HOW FACEBOOK WORK?HOW FACEBOOK WORK?

• 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 Facebookis becoming more recognizable as the numberof active members increases.

Facebook provides several ways to find friendsYou can

browse and join networks

regions

Colleges

workplaces

high schools

Facebook Profiles

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.

ADVANTAGESFacebook 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 FacebookFacebook 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 FacebookTime-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.