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Facebook: social networking website

Facebook: social networking website. Camposarcone – Del Balio - Scarpelli. General info. Facebook is a social networking website , launched on February 4, 2004, and founded by Mark Zuckerberg. General info. Initially the membership was restricted to students of Harvard College.

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Facebook: social networking website

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  1. Facebook: social networking website Camposarcone – Del Balio - Scarpelli

  2. General info Facebook is a social networking website, launched on February 4, 2004, and founded by Mark Zuckerberg.

  3. General info • Initially the membership was restricted to students of Harvard College. • Subsequently expanded to other USA university. • People with a university email address from institutions across the globe were eligible to join. • Since September 11, 2006, it has been made available to any email address user who inputs a certain age range. • As of July 2007, the website had the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites with over 34 million active members worldwide.

  4. Why to use facebook? • Connect people with friends and others who works, study and live around them. • Keep up with friends. • Upload photos without limits. • Sharing. • Learn more about the people they meet.

  5. Why facebook is innovative? An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that an operatingsystem or library provides to support requests for services to be made of it by computer programs. • Because it aims to a specific target: student and people that works together in real world. • Because the developers has released the API for let third part developers to built new applications for facebook.

  6. Make your own profile

  7. Make your own profile

  8. Make your own profile

  9. Search your friends

  10. Facebook Applications Applications are tools that allow you interact with your friends and networks. Examples of applications that Facebook has built are Photos, Notes, and Groups. Now by his openAPI library, Facebook allows third parties to develop applications that abide by your privacy settings and live within the site. Adding applications allows you to expand the usefulness of the site.

  11. Search your favorite Applications

  12. Facebook Applications Giving free access to facebook's API means that potentially anyone could build an application for facebook that is perfectly compatible with the system and suitable with the standards. Thanks to this now 5563 different applications can be picked from users for their home page. Only few of these are developed by fecebook.

  13. Select your Applications

  14. Update your Profile with new Applications

  15. Customize your home page

  16. Give a chance toemergentbehaviors: Poke! From facebook help page: “A poke is a way to interact with your friends on Facebook. When we created the poke, we thought it would be cool to have a feature without any specific purpose. People interpret the poke in many different ways, and we encourage you to come up with your own meanings.” The poke is usually used to say hallo or for attract the attention of a friend but many other declinations are given from the users to this function such as "sexual advance" or "poke war".

  17. Facebook: social networking website Camposarcone – Del Balio - Scarpelli

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