2. Goals of the day
Tour de Facebook
• History
• Social Media Snapshot
• What can we do on
FaceBook!?
Getting started
• Registering
• Facebook Interface
• Finding your friends
• Expressing yourself
• Control your Infor
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Other interesting things
‘bout Facebook
•Social network
•Games
•Quiz
•Advertisements
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History
• In Feb 2004, facebook was created by Mark Zuckerburg (with Dustin
Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and 2 others Harvard students)
• Innitially, the membership was restricted to students of Harvard
University , and subsequently expanded to other US and Canadian
colleges then to European and Asia colleges (e-mail add with .edu)
• Since September 11, 2006, it has valuable for any e-mail add
globally, but the interface is in English only.
• On May 24, 2007, Facebook launched the Facebook Platform which
provides a framework for developers (anyone) to create
applications that interact with core Facebook features
• As of Sept 25th 2007, with 42mill active users, Facebooks is the
second largest netwotking site globally after MySpace.
7. What can we do on FaceBook!?
• Keep in touch with your old friends and meet
new one
Private and Public messaging option
See what your friends do via their new feed
Find former schoolmates through the search
feature
User group let you with others who share your
interest
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8. What can we do on FaceBook!?
• Keep them inform about what you do
Update your status
Share your pictures, blog messages and video
Promote event you are organizing or planning
to attend
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9. What can we do on FaceBook!?
• Access a Wealth of Application made for all
purpose
Fun, interactive application
Application that let you publish content (photos,
video, notes,….)
Application linked to other platform (Wordpress,
Twitter, Flickr, LiveSpace, ….)
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10. What can we do on FaceBook!?
• Retain your Privacy
Control what strangers and friends may see
and read about you
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