When I start computer, my fingers first go to the letters F, A, C, E, B, O, O and K. There is one of my friends who doesn't start a day without checking Facebook and doesn't sleep without doing so. Whenever someone is using internet, his/her Facebook is usually staying open. Either it's computer or mobile phone, everybody seems to be using Facebook on it. It hasn't been so long time for Facebook to come in existence and it has more than 500 millions active members. Some years ago, I used to be using hi5.com as a social network and I had many friends on it. Later on, just two years ago, many of my friends started to cancel their accounts from hi5.com. The reason was that they shifted to Facebook.What is the reason behind the such a craze in Facebook?
Facebook is a website which is providing social network service since February 2004. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school, or college, or others.
One of the main reasons why many people like Facebook is a option to have live chat, which is distinct feature of Facebook than any other social network website. Here, anyone can search users from different countries around the world, view their profiles, make friends and chat. They can even send message with pictures, videos and links. They can post pictures, videos or links to their friends' profile walls. They can comments on friends' wall post, pictures, videos and links and these comments are visible to other friends. Automatic notification of profile updates, pictures/videos/link uploads and comments is significant feature of Facebook. Privacy policy of pictures, videos and links like everyone, friends only, friends of friends and customization like only for certain friends, blocking from certain friends is important feature of Facebook.
Facebook has been an effective medium of personal advertisement for promoting personal businesses, and advertising for some events and inviting people. There are many many applications and games which have also attracted the internet users towards Facebook. "Who loves you today?", "Who missed you today?", "Love Test", "Best Friends Forever" are some of the applications.
The following report shows websites for the industry 'All Categories', ranked by Visits for the week ending 10/09/2010.
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hey! i thought it was cool how you tried to figure out why facebook has been so much more popular than all other sites even the ones very similar to it. i love the background too, it reminds me of being in my living room!
ReplyDeleteHi lucysoccer7, thanks for your nice comments. I just tried to explain personally why Face book is getting popularity. Yes, I liked my background too :)
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