Facebook, it"s features and it"s problems by Lucia Mitrova

Raise your hand everybody who doesn't know Facebook! Not many hands, I see, but anyhow. Facebook is one of the many social networking websites for example like myspace or friendster. It is here to allow you to interact with other users, online friends, real life friends that you do not meet on daily basis. All you have to do is sign up and after registration you can start your social life on line. Especially Facebook, which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in Cambridge Massachusetts, was meant for the students, after some time it got so popular that now, anybody can join. And anybody is joining, Facebook has now days about 54 million active users and it is expected to grow to 60 million by the end of the year. What is so great about the Facebook? Apart from staying in touch with people and uploading photographs it the site's features. You can write your facebook friend a message on the "Wall", so the others would see it too or buy someone a "gift". By gift we mean a small icon that will appear on recipients's profile, unless you want the gift to be private. Very popular is the feature called "Poke" that allows you to poke others or even start a poke war. But Facebook has its problems too. Lately there is an issue about tracking and privacy. Facebook had from the beginning high privacy policy, but users are afraid it got lower. For instance with "News feeds" feature which let you now if your friend changed something on his profile. This feature was followed by huge users protests, so now it's optional and you cat turn it off. Another feature that users are complaining about is "Beacon". Thanks to this if Facebook users buys anything, his friends could see. The company statement to this issue is: "Beacon gives users an easy way to share relevant information from other sites with their friends on Facebook. Information is shared with a small selection of a user's trusted network of friends, not publicly on the Web or with all Facebook users. Users also are given multiple ways to choose not to share information from a participating site, both on that site and on Facebook."

by Lucia Mitrova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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