Facebook

== =About Facebook=

Launched on February 4, 2004, Facebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at schools, exclusively universities and colleges in the United States. In September, Facebook added more than 1,000 colleges and 20,000 high schools in the United States and Canada. Shortly after Facebook became the seventh most visited site on the Internet. A couple of months later, Facebook added photo options, now there are about 1.5 million new photos each day.

You can use Facebook to: [|Facebook] is one example of a virtual online community. It connects people exclusive to certain universities or colleges (just recently adding highschools), through various categories of interest. One is able to find people on the site taking the same courses, as well as find people with the same political views, the same clubs, residents, similar musical tastes, and so forth. This virtual online community allows people to take virtual life and convert it into reality by possibly meeting with the people that are in the same school's as them and possibly in the same courses. It provides a comforting setting because all of the users on this site are college and university student generally within the same age group and not necessarly used for dating purposes. It is allowed for a more private audience and one has the privacy of preventing their profile from being seen by unwanted users. It enables the user to create photo albums to display pictures of the user and friends, allowing one to 'tag' other Facebook users. Tagging someone in a picture causes the newly uploaded file to display under the tagged users photo album. There is also a 'poke' took which people can use to 'poke' people either to remind them of their presence or simply flirt with the person.
 * Look up people at your school.
 * See how people know each other.
 * Find people in your classes and groups
 * Find people who went to high school with you or live in your hometown
 * Find out about upcoming events that are going on in your area

It is also an excellent procrastination tool. The "University of Toronto Procrastination Association" is a popular club on Facebook, currently holding over 2300 University of Toronto students. with its description of "let's get lazy", and "studying sucks, I bet there's something good on TV", students often gather here to complain about their overwhelming amounts of work, all left to the last minute.



Each student also has a 'wall', a guestbook-like feature where other users may post up public comments for the individual. Private messaging is also available. School events and social events can be advertized on Facebook where people can get invitations and can RSVP to the events and see who else is and is not going to them. Also, a birthday reminder is posted on the Facebook welcome page to remind people of who on their friends list has a birthday coming up. There is a friend detail option where people can explain the connection/relationship between them which also includes a social timeline that describes historical/important events that happened in one's lifetime. If people feel uncomfortable or threatened in any way on Facebook there is a "report" option where Mark Zuckerberg can block another user from having access to someone else's profile.

The following is a screenshot of the facebook interface: