Facebook.com is a social networking web site, first introduced on February 4, 2004. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a former Harvard student, who initially started Facebook as a hobby project. When it began, Facebook was only available to Harvard students. Within two months Facebook’s availability was quickly expanded to all Ivy League schools. Over the next year universities around the world were quickly added to the social networking web site. High schools and some large companies were eligible to join just about two years after the launch of the site. Today, the site has over 64 million active users and is the 7th most visited site according to Alexa.
Some advantages of using Facebook include, giving friends, classmates, and co-workers a place to communicate with each other. Users are given the opportunity to decide what they want and don’t want to share, with users in their networks and their selected friends. Facebook is a one-stop site for sharing media, calendaring, blogging, communicating, sharing information, etc. Facebook.com is also available in a mobile version, which gives users access to the site anywhere using their cell phone.
As well as advantages, Facebook also has disadvantages. Sharing too much information could be a problem for some people. Other people say that using Facebook is just a waste of time. The site can also allow complete strangers to view someone’s profile which could have bad consequences for some users.
I believe that Facebook should be used within an organization as an informal means of communication for employees, managers, etc. It could allow an organization’s users to create relationships with each other, which would be harder to do without Facebook.
Overall, I would rate Facebook.com as 5 out of 5 on its usefulness because of its unique ability to connect people over the web.
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