FACEBOOK
Introduction :
Facebook, is a new innovation. It offers you an opportunity to interact with an
extraordinarily expansive universe of new people. You can sculpt your online identity and learn
more about how the Internet and its various programs work to create new relationships and
communities. For the entrepreneurially minded, it might be an introduction into business as you
think of how to "market" yourself.
People make the technology, not only in the fundamental sense of discovery and invention,
but also in the sense that they make it happen and that they contour it in ways that reflect our basic
humanity. Our basic humanity is for better or for worse. It is vulnerable to context, circumstance
and interpretation. And so it is important to remember that Facebook is malleable and creates as
many obligations as it does opportunities for expression. Below are parts about Facebook. In one
hand, we’ll talk about this new concept, in the other hand we’ll talk about the economical and
technological aspect and finally, we’ll mention the good and the bad side of this phenomenon .
I / Description of the concept
Facebook is a social networking website launched on February 4, 2004. The Facebook
headquarter sets place in Palo Alto (California). Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris
Hughes founded Facebook while they were students at Harvard University. Website membership
was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Ivy League. It
later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to
anyone aged 13 and over. The website is named: www.facebook.com and it refers to the paper
facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory
schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on
campus. The freeaccess website is privately owned and operated by Facebook, Incorporation. The
first goal of this type of network is to make contacts on the model of a “friend circle”.It allows
people to create special links between each others and let’s permit them to display their tastes and
personal life: musical tastes, photos, friends, movies, passions, pictures and so on.
According to the researcher Christine Rosen, This explosion of networks with contacts,
reminds the theory of the degrees of separation, elaborated by Stanley Milgram, according to which
two persons taken at random can be connected by using on average 5,5 intermediary !Users can
join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other
people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profile to
notify friends about themselves. The site is still especially popular among the students and the new
graduates, who use it as first tool of communication between them. Million of students look at their
Facebook pages several times a day and spend hours to send and to receive messages, to fix
meetings, to get informed of activities of their friends, to learn it more on people whom they met
recently or of whom they heard of.
The website currently has more than 110 million active users worldwide including 16
million users in Europe (1million in France since the site is launched here in May 2007!). Other
data, the number of users in October 2007 is on average of 50 million, 60 percent of the connections are daily and an important precision is that more than the half of users consulting daily
www.facebook.com stays on average twenty minutes! The site is now available in so many
languages like in Catalan, Chinese , Czech, Danish, Dutch, English , Finnish, French, German,
Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian (bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian),
Russian, Spanish (Castilian), Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Welsh … Facebook is classified in the 1st
rank of the sites of photos sharing in the United States and this is the 7th site the most visited in the
world behind Yahoo!, Google, YouTube, Windows Live, MSN and MySpace (the most famous
competitor!), the first in Canada (ten percent of the population is subscribed!) and in Norway
(twenty percent).
II/ Economy and technology
We can give some important figures about the economy of facebook. The facebook’s
turnover was estimated in 2008 at 150 million dollars. Moreover, 1.6 percent of the capital was
bought back by Microsoft in October 2007 for 240 billion dollars which increase the value of the
society at 15 billion dollars! Beside Microsoft becomes the only advertising provider of facebook.
The fact that Facebook is opened to the third applications since May 2007 contributed to the
success of the site, numerous designers, beginners or experts, do not hesitate to propose their
applications, that they intend themselves for Web or for local use.. Tools and processing racks
(framework, API, samples of code) have been suggested to the developers who can format their
conceptions in the standards of Facebook. The FBML, for example, which was establishes as the
language of standard layout on Facebook, looks like the understandable HTML for the developers,
but it is sometimes more or less binding. Any programmers have consequently the possibility of
creating applications inserted into the site, to broadcast them as a whole thanks to " social graph ",
and to take advantage from it as hear it (by advertising, sale of services, etc). According to
Facebook, there were on November 30th, 2007 more than 8 000 applications, official or unofficial
which were already created and some are already promoted in several million dollars.
On July 23rd, 2008, Facebook presented the last advances of the platform Facebook during
its annual conference “F8 developers”, calling its developers, the number of which exceeds 400
000, to connect their Web sites to Facebook via Facebook Connect.
But there is some flaw in the platform like what happened in august 2007 : a part of the source code
of the index page was hacked and published on the web.
Facebook is not a website, it is a protocol, an infrastructure, the equivalent of a software of
email as hotmail or Gmail, except on Facebook we can share and exchange particulars rather than
just send emails. In other words, you should not think of Facebook as if it was a website. It is a
standard of exchange of particulars between individuals. This standard has even a name: FBML for
Facebook Markup Language whose. Moreover, as they can create Web sites in HTML, the other
developers can use the FBML to create applications on Facebook as "iLike " or "vampire".
In view of the fact that Facebook is an application, the economic circles begin to be
interested in its economic model. Make turn a site of this size represents a cost. The numerous
slowings down which affect Facebook are the proof. The first analyses emphasized the potential
offered by the constitution of a base of relatively complete datum of the users, the possibilities
offered by the different mechanisms of avatar (purchases of presents in $1, service premium, etc),
or on opportunity to make pay third applications to ameliorate their quality of service (show
photographs desire widget slide.com faster).III/ Social Impact
Facebook has become one of the leading social networking sites on the Internet today. It is
used by millions of people around the world; there are high school students, college students, family
members and friends using this tool to simply keep in touch with one another, while other people
have come to use Facebook for business purposes. It is simply a multi billiondollar organization
that has affected the way people communicate today. It is apparent that Facebook has such an
eminent control over its users; nevertheless it is the user who must determine whether this is a good
or bad control. The history of Facebook may or may not play a role in one’s opinion of social
networking, however we feel that being educated on the subject will allow for an informed final
decision.
Originally it began as a social network within Harvard that eventually continued to connect
other students throughout other Boston colleges and universities. By the end of 2005, Facebook had
allowed colleges from around the world to join the network and within a few months high schools
were being incorporated into the social network as well. Finally, by September of that year, anyone
with an email could join. This search can be as limited as the user permits, however it enables you
to remain close to friends you saw last week or those you have not been given the opportunity to
speak with for several years. One must remember that Facebook is a very personal piece of
technology.
You can display a picture of yourself for your profile, you can describe your likes, dislikes
and many interests, you can report to your friends whether or not you are listed as single, you can
share your birthday and your age, you can let others tag photos of you and you can even post a
video of you and or your friends online. It can be used to track down old childhood chums, it can
also be used to list your top friends or share your mood.
Depending on how the user has arranged their personal settings it is possible for
people to whom you have no knowledge of, to view the photos, videos and comments that you or
your friends have posted. Also, Facebook could ultimately lead to Internet stalking. There is a block
or high privacy option available, but hackers and stalkers have ways of getting around these
controls. If this piece of technology is used incorrectly or carelessly, the damages could be fatal. For
example during May of 2007, there was an alleged rumor of a suicide pact, claiming that every two
weeks one student from St. Joan of Arc Catholic School were to commit suicide. Two students
unfortunately took their own lives and while the dates were exactly two weeks apart this was
merely a coincidence. Nevertheless there were approximately 17 names of students who declared
that they would take their own lives as well.
Conclusion :
Facebook is a great innovation that allows users to express their humanity, meet new or
former friends and an opportunity to create new communities. It represents a forum in which one
can make choices about their identity. That freedom does not suggest that one can do so without
consequences. Facebook is a great way to contact former friends, to create applications, to send
messages… But it can also be a non privacy with applications like photo, personal information…Source :
wikipédia ,
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Publié le :
21/07/2011
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Nombre de pages :
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Type de la publication :
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