Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service and a web site that was created in February 2004. Nowadays it has more than 800 million active users. Researches show that the Facebook is, today, the most used social networking in the world. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college friends Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. It was initially limited for the Harvard students, but it expanded to other colleges in the USA. Users must register before using the site, after that they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages. Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information, and other personal information. They can communicate with friends and other users through private or public messages and a chat.They can also create and join interest groups and "like pages". Some people say that facebook is beneficial for our social life because it keeps you in touch with friends and relatives anytime you want, but another people say that it can cause antisocial tendencies because people are not communicating directly with the others.Some studies have named Facebook as a source of problems in relationships. There are some books that talk about the history of the facebook like: //[|The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal]//.and recently David Fincher directed a movie about the Facebook creation called: //[|The Social Network.]// For these reasons I think that the Facebook is one of the most important inventions of this century.

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