SOCIAL NETWORKS: FACEBOOK
"Social Networks are forms of social interaction,
defined as a dynamic exchange between individuals, groups and institutions in
contexts of complexity. An open and ongoing construction involving sets
identified in the same needs and problems and organized to maximize their
resources. "
For
English speakers find some as Friendster, Tribe and MySpace, Orkut, Yahoo 360 °
and Facebook the most important today which we will develop in depth below
On the other hand there are also
social networks in spanish lenguaje as Active Networking, Neuron, Tuenti,
eConozco, Sky, Dejaboo.net, Spaniards and other more.
CREATION AND GROWTH OF FACEBOOK
Facebook was founded in 2004 bya Harvard University
student called Mark Zuckerberg. Originally it was created for students of
Harvard University to maintain contact between them to facilitate work sharing
photos and so on. However, since September last year for anyone with an email
account can register on this social network that grows daily and currently only
available in English.
From that moment, Facebook began to grow on a meteoric
rise to become one of the 20 most visited pages on the Internet and the first
social networking site after MySpace in which it has already outranged in the
ranking of popularity and users. Currently, 250 million users
worldwide can create in this page your own virtual space and communicate with
other community users.
"The launch coincided with Facebook opening the
site to all Internet users and later developers outside the company. The latter
was fundamental to winning a bunch of addicts, and lure in passing new
advertisers. "
SERVICES OFFERED
• Friends: application that lets you store a contact
list containing those contacts with those who want to maintain or meet
• Groups and Pages: is one of the newer ones. The
idea is to bring together people with
common interests and facilitate the exchange of views photos and so on.
• Wall: the wall is where your contacts can leave
comments at any moment and you'll receive when you connect
• Photos: According to Facebook, 6 are:
or 5 billion user photos.
or 160 terabytes of storage.
• Applications: These are small applications that you
can find out, discover things about your personality that others think about
you
• Games: highlights games like Farmville, Texas
holden, etc Fishville
EXTRA APPLICATIONS
By opening up its platform to other companies or
independent developers Facebook users have been able to add their profiles to
new and useful aplicacione.Some interesting applications include
Zoho,"Where I ' 've Been "integrate Flickr photos and YouTube videos.
Another feature of Facebook much appreciated by users
is an area called Marketplace classifieds.
SOCIAL CIRCLE
As we have seen, Facebook brings together many services
of the so-called Web 2.0. The user has even the possibility of creating a blog,
using diverse tools. Also, social circles can be chosen according to various
options: college university workplace and so on.
For now, Facebook is only available in English, but it
is expected that the investment of $ 240 million that will be entering from
Microsoft, try to launch it in other languages
By Jorge Lavin Montoro group 65 c NIA 100275611 18/12/2009
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