Facebook.com

Facebook By Pyeong toc

= = = = =Introduction = [|www.facebook.com] i s an awesome global **social networking** website where you can communicate with your friends. Friends in Facebook are usually your family members, friends and colleague. Facebook is created by Mark Zuckerberg on October 28, 2003 who was a student of Harvard University. The website currently has more than 300 million active users **worldwide**. Facebook is one of most used website. 

 =**History of Facebook** =

Facebook was launched 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his friends. First, only students of Harvard was allow to use Facebook then Facebook started to spread out to big colleges like Yale University, and Facebook became more and more famous and well known **website**. In 2005 April [|www.facebook.com] officially became proper website address instead of [|www.thefacebook.com].

= Mark Zuckerberg =   Mark Zuckerberg was born in May 14th, 1984, he started the programming since he was in the middle school, especially communication tools and games, he invented a music playing **program** called Synapse even tough Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse and employee Zuckerberg, but he decided to attend Harvard University instead. He invented Facebook in his dorm room with his friends  =**How to use Facebook ** =

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Facebook is a website that is really easy to use and where you can do many things widely. To start with, when you go to [|www.facebook.com] anyone can sign up unless they are under 13 or you haven’t got an email address, you only need your name, age, birthday and email are all the information you need for signing up. The first thing you got to do when you have singed up is to search for the person who you know and send them a friend request; you can also search them by their company they work or their school that they graduated. When you have your friends accepting your friend request, you can chat with them when they are **online** and you can also send message to them. Sending a message in Facebook is almost same as sending an email except for it is easier to use. Additionally, you can also write on their wall and comment on their posts. You can also post what you are doing and what happened in short writing. You can post videos, photos and even writing and your friends can comment on it, if they do they will appear in you **notification**. Your survey results and friends **confirmation** will also appear on your **profile**, you are able to see your friend’s profile. =** Applications **=

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Facebook **application**s are mostly used for entertainment; applications are widely typed such as business, education, friends and family, games, just for fun, lifestyle, sports and utilities. The most popular app is 3 sorts, games, surveys and vote. First of all, games are most commonly used and popular app; it is really fun and also can be easily played with many people **globally**. Secondly, surveys are used for people to enjoy the meaningless answers which makes people think themselves are special like ‘what legendary creature are you?”. And finally, **voting**, which is another type of Facebook application, are usually about the predictions of the big events such as ‘who is going to be America’s president?’ and ‘who is going to be the best soccer player for 2009?’ People can write on your wall, saying a little message and they can be seen on your profile page.

= Conclusion = = = <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">To summarize, Facebook is really good website for **communication** and also entertainment. The users are keeping increasing in Facebook. Thought these types of website like Facebook, world will have better communication system. And it would be used by different age, gender and nationality no matter where they are.

= Glossary = [|Notification]: a formal notifying or informing

[|Application]: the act of putting to a special use or purpose

[|social networking]: the use of a website to connect with people who share personal or professional interests, place of origin, education at a particular school, etc.

[|Globally]: pertaining to the whole world; worldwide; universal: //the dream of global peace.//

[|Profile]: the outline or contour of the human face, esp. the face viewed from one side.