1. Presented by: PREM PRAKASH
VERMARoll no: Submitted to: NEHA SONI
SOBHASARIA GROUP OF INSTITUTION, SIKAR

2. What is Facebook ?
• Facebook is a social networking service and
website launched in February 2004, operated and
privately owned by Facebook Inc.
• According to Facebook.com: “Facebook is an
online directory that connects people through
social networks at schools”.
• Facebook is a way for people to connect with other
people they know, or to connect with their friends
and remain in touch with them.

3. History of Facebook
 Facebook was founded by “Mark Zuckerberg” with his
college roommates and fellow students
Eduardo Saverin,
Dustin Moskovitz &
Chris Hughes.
When he was student at haward university.
 Harvard students created the site as a tool to connect
with other students in their community.
 On 4th February 2004, Zuckerberg launched "The
facebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.
 In August 2005, “thefacebook” was officially called
“Facebook” and the domain facebook.com was
purchased for $200,000.

4.  Facebook currently has 850 million
active users (up to fab. 2012) .
 And more than 200 million users are
added to facebook in a single year.
 By the end of 2012, facebook is
expected to reach 1 billion active users.

6. India has second highest number of facebook users among world

8.  facebook is the second biggest website by
traffic behind Google.
 More than 70 translations are available on
the site.
 People that use Facebook on their mobile
devices are twice as active on Facebook
than non-mobile users.
 The meaning of the term poke has never
been defined.

10. Advantages:
 Facebook helps us to find new friends and also
helps us to find our old friends.
 Facebook helps in eliminating the effect of distance
between friends, parents, relatives etc.
 Facebook is a boredom killer!
 Facebook also acts as a source of entertainment by
means of some Applications and games.

11. Advantages:
 Facebook is the best medium to share your feelings and
thoughts with others.
 It can also be used as video chat tool.
 It helps in business promotion through Ads. and
Fans page.
 It’s one of the best source to stay updated with latest news
and updates.
 Students can use Facebook for group study by creating a
group only for studying
 If you have a Facebook login ID than you don't need to
waste your time for registering other site.

12. Facebook : Disadvantages
 Facebook can become a major distracter
from academics, as the students waste their
study time for using Facebook .
 There are limited hours in a day. Time
spend online is time taken away from study,
extracurricular activities, and other social
interactions.
 Facebook may lead to Internet Stalking:
Personal information such as address,
phone number and bio data can provide
many tools to individuals interesting in
keeping observation on someone.
 Password safety & identity theft.

13. Facebook : Disadvantages
 The student break their real life social relationship
for building internet relationships .
 Facebook has a bad influence on childen .
 Our personal data is not safe on Facebook :
Facebook can do anything with our data, because
you agree to these terms (distribution and data
manipulation), and we are unable to avoid them. It
is necessary to tick these rules when we are
registering. So facebook can easily sell our private
data to third parties and to companies with which
they have relationships.
 One can easily create an fake account and
impersonate another person.

14. Facebook : highly addictive!!
 Facebook addition is the main problem that is
been faced by youngsters from around the world.
This gives them no time to involve in other
activities.
 Facebook addiction is a serious disorde & this
disorder is known as F.A.D.(facebook addiction
disorder).
 Due to F.A.D users become less productive in
their daily life.
 The facebook addiction reduces user’s health and
physical capacity and may lead to obesity.
 The students lost their sleeping time and studying
time at night .

15. CONCLUSION
Facebook is a gift if we use it
in the right way otherwise it
will indeed be an enemy.
So let’s use it wisely!!