Facebook

Over one million sites are integrated with Facebook making it the largest in the world. 50% of the 400 million users (as of February 2010) log onto Facebook each day and share what they are doing with the world. There are three major ways in which the site Facebook has changed the face of the internet:

1.    Finding people  has become a lot easier thanks to Facebook. By just typing in their name into the search bar you are able to sift through all the people who have Facebook with that name. With the use of profile pictures, you can easily find the individual you want.

2.    Privacy on Facebook can sometimes be a problem. Every user posts lots of pictures on Facebook ranging from nights on the town to an average school day. Due to this the Facebook developers allow privacy settings to be applied to your account. This means that you can vet who can see your page ranging from friends, friends of friends and the whole internet. However , there have been a few reported cases where these privacy settings have been compromised, such as a few years ago where Mark Zuckerberg’s private photos were on show to the whole world.

3.    Connections are made through Facebook with people all over the world. Many different websites (over one million) have like buttons featured on them which means that everyone of your friends can see the articles which you have been reading.