Facebook

=Facebook (Work in Progress) Logo pictured right = Facebook is a social networking site that was launched in 2004 as a social networking service. the service is free but requires you to sign up and create a profile for yourself by entering information such as email address, name and interests, although all the information bar name and email address are optional for entering.

**Origin**
Facebook originally began as a social networking site for students at Harvard Univesity where the founder Mark Zuckerberg co-created Facebook The original purpose of the site was to connect different students at Harvard university where the to founders of Facebook where students, although this service was then extended to the students of other Ivy league colleges connecting many different people and letting them meet each other in a social environment.

**Advantages**

 * able to communicate with friends that you may not see very often.
 * helps to make plans with a group of friends.
 * it is entertaining.
 * a good way to vent your anger.

**Disadvantages**

 * there is alot of abuse on facebook**.**
 * creates the oppurtunaty for people to bully others easily.
 * can get addictive if you use it to often.
 * gives people the oppurtunity to learn alot about your life which they could use in an innapropriate manner.

**History**
Facebook is a social networking site that was launched in 2004 as a social networking service. The service is free but requires you to sign up and create a profile for yourself by entering personal information such as email address, name and interests. Although you can turn on privacy settings so that you do not reveal any details that unscrupiolus individuals may take advantage of. although it is much more commonly used for friends to keep in contact with each other. Facebook also has many other features such as the ability to send private messages to people as well as the ability to send instant messages to people giving people the ability to have conversations over vast distances for instance a person could be in Antarctica and providing they have a strong internet connection have an hour long conversation with someone in the Artic on the other side of the planet.

Although as Facebook has advanced over the years it has acrued many new features such as the ability to play games.

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