Facebook: Online Social Networking Facebook: Online Social Networking Facebook is an online social networking site founded in 2004 (Facebook.com‚ n.d.). The purpose of this website is to connect family and friends and to share content such as pictures‚ status updates‚ and event invites between the user’s contacts. The site also has numerous games that many users participate in for entertainment. The website states the mission of Facebook is to “give people the power to share and make
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Financial Performance 7.1 Financial Statement FACEBOOK‚ INC. CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (In millions‚ except for number of shares and par value) (Unaudited) | | | | | | | | | | | June 30‚ 2012 | | | December 31‚ 2011 | | Assets | | | | | | | | | Current assets: | | | | | | | | | Cash and cash equivalents | | $ | 2‚098 | | | $ | 1‚512 | | Marketable securities | | | 8‚090 | | | | 2‚396 | | Accounts
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Abstract Facebook began in February 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his collegiate comrades at Harvard University. Rapidly expanding‚ Facebook’s exponential growth led to its membership growing to over one billion users‚ as of September 2012. One would imagine that with such growth would come more opportunities for challenges to arise: one of these challenges being users and their rights to privacy. As part of Facebook’s advertising system‚ their primary means of generating revenue
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Summary: Facebook‚ a company grew up from a small network site to a $50 billion company‚ gets almost all the revenue from advertising. The only things Facebook has are the hundreds millions accounts. Because of the large database of customers‚ Facebook have so many valuable details information for advertising‚ which make Facebook earn a lot. Also‚ Facebook help people connect each other easily. However‚ this may not be good for Facebook user because Facebook grab users information with or without
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Taylor: Essay: Why facebook is bad. Essay: Why facebook is bad. I believe that facebook is bad. In this essay I will tell that Facebook wastes time‚ occupies the hosts mind and is not‚ no matter what people say is not the same as actual social interaction. Facebook is not my friend and neither should it be yours‚ My first reason why facebook is not my friend is because that it wastes everybody time. Now my argument is just armed at facebook‚ but also the people who make facebook games‚ Zynga is
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Impact Facebook Egyptian revolution Many people around the world remember that day when hundreds of Egyptians were gathered on the Tahrir square in Cairo‚ trying to improve the future of Egypt. This scenario was not only noticeable in Egypt‚ but citizens from many Arab countries came together and demonstrated in order to improve the policy in their countries. It is argued that in for mation and communication technologies‚ such as the internet‚ social media and mobile phones have played an important
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One of the most recent notable M&A deals is “Facebook acquiring Instagram”. This acquisition is a critical move of Facebook due to the 2 main reasons: the deal size of $1 bn that Facebook spent for a startup app developer‚ of which $300 mn in cash and the remainder in Facebook Class B stock after the IPO and the financial effect the deal created just before Facebook IPO. At the time of the acquisition‚ Facebook was a network of a billion users yet still struggling with monetizing. On the other
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Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook on Febuary 4th‚ 2004. Facebook has grown globally and used every day by approx. 1 billion users. Originally known as facemash‚ and thefacebook.com‚ facebook has overcame many challenges to become what it is today. Facebook was originally created for college students to share and compare notes at Harvard University. As of 2010 Facebook was the 3rd largest company known worldwide‚ surpassing ebay in mid 2010. Anyone can become a user on the social network worldwide
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Social Network: an online community of people with a common interest who use a Web site or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information‚ resources(dictionary.com). There are almost 500 million users of social networks and spent over 700 billion minutes a month using them. Is this hindering our social skills? There are many ways that people interact with each other such as e-mail‚ texting‚ a social network but the least used interaction is face to face. A negative impact
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regardless whether they know them or not. Also‚ when it comes to the male users‚ 80% of men adds women more than women adds men. Social networking sites are different than each other because they all try different ways to attract potential users. Facebook has “Relatioship status”‚ Twitter and Tumblr has a “follow” button and Friendster renovated. You can see the differences when you try each one yourself. Social networking sites according to the study in the internet‚ are addicting because you can
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