Facebook
Facebook is the largest social networking site in the world with over 500 million users spending over 700 billion minutes on facebook every month. Founded by Harvard University students David Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin in February 2004, it took less than a year to reach one million users and has since spawned facebook for mobile phones and even a feature length film (Facebook.com, 2010).
Facebook is designed to enable users to share thoughts, messages, photos, interests and details about their lives to their chosen friends. Users create a profile of themselves and share status updates with their friends.
Advantages:
• Users can easily communicate with friends and family all over the world
• Users can share important moments in their lives with friends who cannot be in attendance with photos and videos such as weddings, birthdays and holidays
• Users can reconnect with friends or family who have been lost over the years
• “Teachers can publish their slides for lessons and lots more multi-media contents” (TeachXav, 2009).
• Teachers also have the ability to create applications to allow students to contact them directly, especially useful for distance education (TeachXav, 2009).
Disadvantages:
• Facebook can reduce the amount of face to face communication in a users life
• Facebook can also impact on non related activities such as job applications, as bosses become more internet savvy and look up applicants profiles.
• There are also many security and privacy concerns with facebook, where users share personal information on their profile without realising who can access this information.
My next post in the series will look at YouTube
Thanks for you readership,
Russell
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