Saying the word sparks interest for anyone of this day and age. This popular social networking website has been practically programmed into everyone's brain. Facebook has become “life” for many around the world. According to, New York Times Facebook currently has 500 million users, doubling in users since 2009.
Facebook is now the leader in social networking and has replaced many former popular social networking sites, such as, MySpace. It has achieved this in multiple ways, one characteristic that has set it apart is by limiting users on changing the appearance of their page Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard Sophomore, founded the popular social network. Facebook was only open to Harvard to students, and then later became available to all high school and college students.
Facebook has even rivaled against the ever so popular Google. Unlike Google where the user has to search for information, Facebook has the capability of connecting users. This is made possible through personal relationships and recommendations. Users don’t even have to go to different pages; users can easily “like” something. This can easily be viewed by friends of the user or those within the user’s network.
However, many people question Facebook’s privacy policies. In response to people’s concerns on the privacy policies Facebook unveiled a set of new controls. These new controls help users maintain their privacy. What Facebook didn’t realize though was with the addition of these new controls that it was confusing to users. This meant for some unused controls by the users.
Facebook is a dominating social network of today’s age, by a wide range of users old and young.
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