miƩrcoles, 18 de marzo de 2009

THE FACEBOOK


What is the Facebook?

Is a social networking website that is designed to connect and interact with other people. Facebook has more than 110 million active users around all the world.
People can also add friends and send them messages. It is a virtual way to build relationships with new people and also to find friends that you have lost contact.

Origen:

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook.
Originally was a place for students of the University of Harvard, but now is opened to any person that have an email account. The users can take part in one or more social nets, in relation with his academic situation, his place of work or geographic region.

The services that Facebook offers:

Friends:
It is a way to find those friends that you have lost contact. You can also add new friends and exchange photos or messages.

Wall:
The Wall is a space in each profile of user that allows you to write messages to your friends. This option is only visible for users registered.


Photos:
You can have 160 terabytes of stronge photos with 5 million photos per user.

Gifts
The gifts or gift are small icons with a message. The gifts given to an user appear in the wall with the message from the person who has sent you the gift.

Games:
The games that offers facebook has been very popular. For example you can play the following games:
- “Guerras de Pandillas”.
- Pet Socity
- “Secuestrados en serie”
- “Amigos en venta”
- Word Challenger

Word challenger:


In this game you have to change the letters to make new words. The more words you make the more points you get.

Conclusion:
Facebook is one of the most popular social internet networks along with Twenty, Hi5, MySpace and others, that provides you the opportunity to get in touch with people around the world without leaving your home, just being in front of your computer.