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Facebook is a social networking website, founded in 2004. This is a list of features that can be found on the Facebook website, as well as technology features on the website.
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* 1 General
o 1.1 Chat
o 1.2 Credits
* 2 Feature List
o 2.1 Deals
o 2.2 Easter eggs
o 2.3 Facebook Live
o 2.4 IPv6
o 2.5 Like
o 2.6 Messages and Inbox
o 2.7 Networks, Groups, and Like Pages
o 2.8 News Feed
o 2.9 Notifications
o 2.10 Phone
o 2.11 Photos
o 2.12 Poke
o 2.13 Smartphones
o 2.14 Feature phones
o 2.15 Status updates
o 2.16 URL shortener
o 2.17 Usernames
o 2.18 Wall
o 2.19 Timeline
o 2.20 Questions
* 3 Applications
o 3.1 Events
o 3.2 Marketplace
o 3.3 Notes
o 3.4 Places
o 3.5 Platform
o 3.6 Questions
o 3.7 Photos
o 3.8 Videos
* 4 Languages
* 5 Security features
o 5.1 Clickjacking warnings
o 5.2 Login Approvals
o 5.3 Site warnings
* 6 Former features
o 6.1 FBML
o 6.2 Gifts
o 6.3 Lite
* 7 References

[edit] General
[edit] Chat

On April 5, 2008, Facebook pre-released Facebook Chat.[1][2] As of April 23, 2008, Facebook Chat was released to the entire Facebook user base. Users may chat with their Facebook friends on a one-to-one basis, or a user may chat with multiple friends simultaneously through the groups feature. Instant messaging clients that currently support Facebook Chat include AOL Instant Messenger, eBuddy, Flock, Miranda IM, Trillian, Empathy, Digsby, Pidgin, Adium, Nimbuzz, FIM (Windows Mobile / Windows Phone 7), Palringo (Windows Mobile), Meebo, Tokbox as well as QIP Infium with a Firefox plugin. Windows Live Messenger 2011 (Wave 4) can connect to Facebook as well. Facebook Chat can also be run on the desktop using Gabtastik, a dedicated web chat browser. Facebook Chat can also be run on the iPhone or iPad using Facebook Chat for iPhone app. On May 13, 2008, a Facebook developer announced that they are working on XMPP support, allowing hundreds of instant messaging clients to interoperate with the service;[3] this functionality became operational on February 10, 2010.[4]

As of August 2011, Facebook Chat supports video chat. Upon using the feature for the first time users must download a plug-in for their web browser.
[edit] Credits
Main article: Facebook Credits

Facebook Credits are a virtual currency you can use to buy gifts, and virtual goods in many games and applications on the Facebook platform. As of July 2010, users of Facebook can purchase Facebook credits in Australian Dollars, British Pound, Canadian Dollars, Chilean Peso, Colombian Peso, Danish Krone, Euro, Hong Kong Dollar, Japanese Yen, Norwegian Krone, Swedish Krona, Swiss Franc, Turkish Lira, US Dollars, and Venezuelan Bolivar. Facebook credits can be used on many popular games such as Happy Aquarium, Happy Island, Zoo Paradise, Happy Pets, Hello City,It Girl[5] FarmVille, and Mafia Wars.

As on 30 August 2010, Facebook gifts were disabled and from then on, Facebook credits are being used for the Games alone.
[edit] Feature List
[edit] Deals

On April 25, 2011, Facebook announced a pilot program called Deals, which offers online coupons and discounts from local businesses. Facebook initially released Deals as a “test” in five cities: Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco with the hope of expanding. This new offering is a direct competitor to other social commerce sites such as LivingSocial and Groupon for online coupons and deals-of-the-day. Facebook users will be able to use Facebook Credits to purchase vouchers that can be redeemed for real goods and services.[6][7]
[edit] Easter eggs

The following are easter eggs that Facebook had at one time or another.

* At one time, entering the Konami Code followed by Enter at the home page caused a lensflare-style series of circles to display when clicking, typing, or scrolling.[8]
* Facebook chat supports some unusual emoticons.[citation needed]
* Asking "how is babby formed?" with the Questions feature released September 23, 2010 will Rickroll the user.
* A user can change his/her language to Leet Speak, Pirate language, and upside down English.

[edit] Facebook Live

On August 13, 2010 Facebook launched a new service called "'Facebook Live'", a live streaming video channel that is intended to keep Facebook users updated to what is happening on the social networking site.[9] The service, powered by Livestream, will feature videos from Facebook staff members and celebrity interviews, but not designed for Facebook users to showcase their own videos. All the content shown on Facebook Live will have some tie-in with Facebook products, features, or how people are using the site.[10] Facebook said this is not an opening to get them into the video distribution space. The first official guest was America Ferrera, the leading actress in the television series Ugly Betty. She discussed her new independent film The Dry Land, that was being promoted almost exclusively through social media channels.[10]
[edit] IPv6

According to a June 2010 report by Network World, Facebook said that it was offering "experimental, non-production" support for IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. The news about Facebook's IPv6 support was expected; Facebook told Network World in February 2010, that it planned to support native IPv6 user requests "by the midpoint of this year."[11]

In a presentation at the Google IPv6 Implementors Conference, Facebook's network engineers said it was "easy to make [the] site available on v6." Facebook said it deployed dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 support on its routers, and that it made no changes to its hosts in order to support IPv6. Facebook also said it was supporting an emerging encapsulation mechanism known as Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP), which separates Internet addresses from endpoint identifiers to improve the scalability of IPv6 deployments. "Facebook was the first major Web site on LISP (v4 and v6)," Facebook engineers said during their presentation. Facebook said that using LISP allowed them to deploy IPv6 services quickly with no extra cost. Facebook's IPv6 services are available at www.v6.facebook.com, m.v6.facebook.com, www.lisp6.facebook.com and m.lisp6.facebook.com.[11]
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Type Private
Founded Cambridge, Massachusetts[1] (2004 (2004))
Founder

* Mark Zuckerberg
* Eduardo Saverin
* Dustin Moskovitz
* Chris Hughes

Headquarters Palo Alto, California, U.S., currently being moved to Menlo Park, California, U.S.
Area served Worldwide
Key people

* Mark Zuckerberg (CEO)
* Chris Cox (VP of Product)
* Sheryl Sandberg (COO)
* Donald E. Graham (Chairman)

Revenue increase US$4.27 billion (2011 est.)[2]
Net income N/A
Employees 2000+ (2010)[3]
Website facebook.com
IPv6 support www.v6.facebook.com
Alexa rank steady 2 (September 2011[update])[4]
Type of site Social networking service
Advertising Banner ads, referral marketing, casual games
Registration Required
Users 800 million[5] (active in September 2011)
Available in Multilingual
Launched February 4, 2004
Current status Active
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Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] As of July 2011[update], Facebook has more than 800 million active users.[6] Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Facebook users must register before using the site. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists, e.g. "People From Work", or "Really Good Friends". The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the website.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[7] The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. However, based on ConsumersReports.org on May 2011, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts, violating the site's terms.[8]

A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.[9] Entertainment Weekly included the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"[10] Quantcast estimates Facebook has 138.9 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in May 2011.[11] According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account.[12] Nevertheless, Facebook's market growth started to stall in some regions, with the site losing 7 million active users in the United States and Canada in May 2011.[13]
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* 1 History
* 2 Company
o 2.1 Ownership
o 2.2 Management
o 2.3 Revenue
o 2.4 Mergers and acquisitions
o 2.5 Operations
* 3 Website
* 4 Reception
* 5 Privacy
* 6 Criticism
* 7 Media impact
* 8 Social impact
* 9 Political impact
* 10 Media
* 11 See also
* 12 Notes
* 13 References
* 14 Further reading
* 15 External links

History
Main articles: History of Facebook and Timeline of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore. According to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not, and "used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person".[14][15]
Mark Zuckerberg co-created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room.
Sean Parker
Cameron Winklevoss
Chris Hughes
Dustin Moskovitz

To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied the houses' private dormitory ID images. Harvard at that time did not have a student "facebook" (a directory with photos and basic information). Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online.[14][16]

The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy, and faced expulsion. Ultimately, however, the charges were dropped.[17] Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of an art history final, by uploading 500 Augustan images to a website, with one image per page along with a comment section.[16] He opened the site up to his classmates, and people started sharing their notes.

The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004. He was inspired, he said, by an editorial in The Harvard Crimson about the Facemash incident.[18] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.[19]

Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product.[20] The three complained to the Harvard Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. The three later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, subsequently settling.[21]

Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service.[22] Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.[23] It soon opened to the other Ivy League schools, Boston University, New York University, MIT, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States.[24][25]

Facebook incorporated in the summer of 2004, and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president.[26] In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California.[23] It received its first investment later that month from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.[27] The company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.[28]
Total active users[N 1] Date↓ Users
(in millions)↓ Days later↓ Monthly growth[N 2]↓
02008-08-26 August 26, 2008 &10000000000000100000000100[29] &100000000000016650000001,665 178.38%
02009-04-08 April 8, 2009 &10000000000000200000000200[30] &10000000000000225000000225 13.33%
02009-09-15 September 15, 2009 &10000000000000300000000300[31] &10000000000000160000000160 9.38%
02010-02-05 February 5, 2010 &10000000000000400000000400[32] &10000000000000143000000143 6.99%
02010-07-21 July 21, 2010 &10000000000000500000000500[33] &10000000000000166000000166 4.52%
02011-01-05 January 5, 2011 &10000000000000600000000600[34][N 3] &10000000000000168000000168 3.57%
— 700 — —
02011-09-22 September 22, 2011 &10000000000000800000000800[35] &10000000000000260000000260 1.65%

Facebook launched a high-school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the next logical step.[36] At that time, high-school networks required an invitation to join.[37] Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft.[38] Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older with a valid email address.[39][40]

On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.[41] Microsoft's purchase included rights to place international ads on Facebook.[42] In October 2008, Facebook announced that it would set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.[43] In September 2009, Facebook said that it had turned cash-flow positive for the first time.[44] In November 2010, based on SecondMarket Inc., an exchange for shares of privately held companies, Facebook's value was $41 billion (slightly surpassing eBay's) and it became the third largest US web company after Google and Amazon.[45] Facebook has been identified as a possible candidate for an IPO by 2013.[46]

Traffic to Facebook increased steadily after 2009. More people visited Facebook than Google for the week ending March 13, 2010.[47]

In March 2011 it was reported that Facebook removes approximately 20,000 profiles from the site every day for various infractions, including spam, inappropriate content and underage use, as part of its efforts to boost cyber security.[48]

In early 2011, Facebook announced plans to move to its new headquarters, the former Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, California.[49][50]

Release of statistics by DoubleClick showed that Facebook reached one trillion pageviews in the month of June 2011, making it the most visited website in the world.[51] It should however be noted that Google and some of its selected websites are not counted in the DoubleClick rankings.
Company
Entrance to Facebook's current headquarters in the Stanford Research Park, Palo Alto, California.
Ownership

Mark Zuckerberg owns 24% of the company, Accel Partners owns 10%, Digital Sky Technologies owns 10%,[52] Dustin Moskovitz owns 6%, Eduardo Saverin owns 5%, Sean Parker owns 4%, Peter Thiel owns 3%, Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners own between 1 to 2% each, Microsoft owns 1.3%, Li Ka-shing owns 0.75%, the Interpublic Group owns less than 0.5%, a small group of current and former employees and celebrities own less than 1% each, including Matt Cohler, Jeff Rothschild, Adam D'Angelo, Chris Hughes, and Owen Van Natta, while Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus have sizable holdings of the company, and the remaining 30% or so are owned by employees, an undisclosed number of celebrities, and outside investors.[53] Adam D'Angelo, chief technology officer and friend of Zuckerberg, resigned in May 2008. Reports claimed that he and Zuckerberg began quarreling, and that he was no longer interested in partial ownership of the company.[54]
Management

Key management personnel comprise Chris Cox (VP of Product), Sheryl Sandberg (COO), and Donald E. Graham (Chairman). As of April 2011[update], Facebook has over 2,000 employees, and offices in 15 countries.[55]
Revenue

Most of Facebook's revenue comes from advertising. Microsoft is Facebook's exclusive partner for serving banner advertising,[56] and therefore Facebook serves only advertisements that exist in Microsoft's advertisement inventory.
Revenues
(estimated, in millions US$) Year↓ Revenue↓ Growth↓
2006 $&1000000000000005200000052[57] —
2007 $&10000000000000150000000150[58] 188%
2008 $&10000000000000280000000280[59] 87%
2009 $&10000000000000775000000775[60] 177%
2010 $&100000000000020000000002,000[61] 158%
2011 $&100000000000042700000004,270[62] 114%

Facebook generally has a lower clickthrough rate (CTR) for advertisements than most major websites. Banner advertisements on Facebook have generally received one-fifth the number of clicks compared to those on the Web as a whole.[63] This means that a smaller percentage of Facebook's users click on advertisements than many other large websites. For example, while Google users click on the first advertisement for search results an average of 8% of the time (80,000 clicks for every one million searches),[64] Facebook's users click on advertisements an average of 0.04% of the time (400 clicks for every one million pages).[65]

Sarah Smith, who was Facebook's Online Sales Operations Manager, confirmed that successful advertising campaigns can have clickthrough rates as low as 0.05% to 0.04%, and that CTR for ads tend to fall within two weeks.[66] Competing social network MySpace's CTR, in comparison, is about 0.1%, 2.5 times better than Facebook's but still low compared to many other websites. Explanations for Facebook's low CTR include the fact that Facebook's users are more technologically savvy and therefore use ad blocking software to hide advertisements, that users are younger and therefore better at ignoring advertising messages, and that MySpace users spend more time browsing through content, while Facebook users spend their time communicating with friends and therefore have their attention diverted away from advertisements.[67]

On pages for brands and products, however, some companies have reported CTR as high as 6.49% for Wall posts.[68] Involver, a social marketing platform, announced in July 2008 that it managed to attain a CTR of 0.7% on Facebook (over 10 times the typical CTR for Facebook ad campaigns) for its first client, Serena Software, managing to convert 1.1 million views into 8,000 visitors to their website.[69] A study found that, for video advertisements on Facebook, over 40% of users who viewed the videos viewed the entire video, while the industry average was 25% for in-banner video ads.[70]
Mergers and acquisitions
Main article: List of acquisitions by Facebook

On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced it had acquired the domain name fb.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation for an undisclosed amount. On January 11, 2011, the Farm Bureau disclosed $8.5 million in "domain sales income", making the acquisition of FB.com one of the ten highest domain sales in history.[71]
Operations

A custom-built data center with substantially reduced ("38% less") power consumption compared to existing Facebook data centers opened in April 2011 in Prineville, Oregon.[72]
Website
Main articles: Facebook features and Facebook Platform
Facebook's homepage features a login form on the top right for existing users, and a registration form directly underneath for new visitors.
Future Facebook profile (Currently only available to developers)
Profile shown on Facebook in September 2011
Facebook profile shown in 2007
Profile shown on Thefacebook in 2005
Facebook mobile graphical user interface

Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information, and other personal information. Users can communicate with friends and other users through private or public messages and a chat feature. They can also create and join interest groups and "like pages" (called "fan pages" until April 19, 2010), some of which are maintained by organizations as a means of advertising.[73]

To allay concerns about privacy, Facebook enables users to choose their own privacy settings and choose who can see specific parts of their profile.[74] The website is free to users, and generates revenue from advertising, such as banner ads.[75] Facebook requires a user's name and profile picture (if applicable) to be accessible by everyone. Users can control who sees other information they have shared, as well as who can find them in searches, through their privacy settings.[76]

The media often compare Facebook to MySpace, but one significant difference between the two websites is the level of customization.[77] Another difference is Facebook's requirement that users give their true identity, a demand that MySpace does not make.[78] MySpace allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), while Facebook allows only plain text.[79] Facebook has a number of features with which users may interact. They include the Wall, a space on every user's profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see;[80] Pokes, which allows users to send a virtual "poke" to each other (a notification then tells a user that they have been poked);[81] Photos, where users can upload albums and photos;[82] and Status, which allows users to inform their friends of their whereabouts and actions.[83] Depending on privacy settings, anyone who can see a user's profile can also view that user's Wall. In July 2007, Facebook began allowing users to post attachments to the Wall, whereas the Wall was previously limited to textual content only.[80]

On September 6, 2006, a News Feed was announced, which appears on every user's homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays of the user's friends.[84] This enabled spammers and other users to manipulate these features by creating illegitimate events or posting fake birthdays to attract attention to their profile or cause.[85] Initially, the News Feed caused dissatisfaction among Facebook users; some complained it was too cluttered and full of undesired information, others were concerned that it made it too easy for others to track individual activities (such as relationship status changes, events, and conversations with other users).[86]

In response, Zuckerberg issued an apology for the site's failure to include appropriate customizable privacy features. Since then, users have been able to control what types of information are shared automatically with friends. Users are now able to prevent user-set categories of friends from seeing updates about certain types of activities, including profile changes, Wall posts, and newly added friends.[87]

On February 23, 2010, Facebook was granted a patent[88] on certain aspects of its News Feed. The patent covers News Feeds in which links are provided so that one user can participate in the same activity of another user.[89] The patent may encourage Facebook to pursue action against websites that violate its patent, which may potentially include websites such as Twitter.[90]

One of the most popular applications on Facebook is the Photos application, where users can upload albums and photos.[91] Facebook allows users to upload an unlimited number of photos, compared with other image hosting services such as Photobucket and Flickr, which apply limits to the number of photos that a user is allowed to upload. During the first years, Facebook users were limited to 60 photos per album. As of May 2009, this limit has been increased to 200 photos per album.[92][93][94][95]

Privacy settings can be set for individual albums, limiting the groups of users that can see an album. For example, the privacy of an album can be set so that only the user's friends can see the album, while the privacy of another album can be set so that all Facebook users can see it. Another feature of the Photos application is the ability to "tag", or label, users in a photo. For instance, if a photo contains a user's friend, then the user can tag the friend in the photo. This sends a notification to the friend that they have been tagged, and provides them a link to see the photo.[96]

Facebook Notes was introduced on August 22, 2006, a blogging feature that allowed tags and embeddable images. Users were later able to import blogs from Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger, and other blogging services.[39] During the week of April 7, 2008, Facebook released a Comet-based[97] instant messaging application called "Chat" to several networks,[98] which allows users to communicate with friends and is similar in functionality to desktop-based instant messengers.

Facebook launched Gifts on February 8, 2007, which allows users to send virtual gifts to their friends that appear on the recipient's profile. Gifts cost $1.00 each to purchase, and a personalized message can be attached to each gift.[99][100] On May 14, 2007, Facebook launched Marketplace, which lets users post free classified ads.[101] Marketplace has been compared to Craigslist by CNET, which points out that the major difference between the two is that listings posted by a user on Marketplace are seen only by users in the same network as that user, whereas listings posted on Craigslist can be seen by anyone.[102]

On July 20, 2008, Facebook introduced "Facebook Beta", a significant redesign of its user interface on selected networks. The Mini-Feed and Wall were consolidated, profiles were separated into tabbed sections, and an effort was made to create a "cleaner" look.[103] After initially giving users a choice to switch, Facebook began migrating all users to the new version beginning in September 2008.[104] On December 11, 2008, it was announced that Facebook was testing a simpler signup process.[105]

On June 13, 2009, Facebook introduced a "Usernames" feature, whereby pages can be linked with simpler URLs such as http://www.facebook.com/facebook as opposed to http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=20531316728.[106] Many new smartphones offer access to Facebook services through either their web-browsers or applications. An official Facebook application is available for the iPhone OS, the Android OS, and the WebOS. Nokia and Research In Motion both provide Facebook applications for their own mobile devices. More than 150 million active users access Facebook through mobile devices across 200 mobile operators in 60 countries.

On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced a new "Facebook Messages" service. In a media event that day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "It's true that people will be able to have an @facebook.com email addresses, but it's not email". The launch of such a feature had been anticipated for some time before the announcement, with some calling it a "Gmail killer". The system, to be available to all of the website's users, combines text messaging, instant messaging, emails, and regular messages, and will include privacy settings similar to those of other Facebook services. Codenamed "Project Titan", Facebook Messages took 15 months to develop.[107][108]

In February 2011, Facebook began to use the hCalendar microformat to mark up events, and the hCard microformat for the events' venues, enabling the extraction of details to users' own calendar or mapping applications.[109]

Since April 2011 Facebook users have had the ability to make live voice calls via Facebook Chat, allowing users to chat with others from all over the world. This feature, which is provided free through T-Mobile's new Bobsled service, lets the user add voice to the current Facebook Chat as well as leave voice messages on Facebook.[110]

On July 6, 2011, Facebook launched its video calling services using Skype as its technology partner. It allows one to one calling using a Skype Rest API.[111] For a brief period of time earlier that day, the URL "facebook.com" led to a Swedish website that was hosted through Google Sites. On July 14 Facebook wouldn't allow access.

As of September 3, 2011, Facebook's operations employed the following ranges of IPv4 addresses [112]:

* 65.201.208.24-65.201.208.31
* 65.203.134.64-65.203.134.79
* 65.204.104.128-65.204.104.143
* 66.92.180.48-66.92.180.63
* 66.93.78.176-66.93.78.183
* 66.220.144.0-66.220.159.255
* 67.200.105.48-67.200.105.51
* 69.63.176.0-69.63.191.255
* 74.119.76.0-74.119.79.255
* 99.188.162.240-99.188.162.247
* 204.15.20.0-204.15.23.255
* 208.252.1.128-208.252.1.159

On September 14, 2011, Facebook launched a Subscribe button. The feature allows for users to follow public updates, and these are the people most often broadcasting their ideas.[113] On September 21, the site adds a ticker and combines the Top Stories and Most Recent all into one;[citation needed] these features previewed the major modifications that the site released on September 22, 2011.[114]
Reception
Facebook popularity. Active users of Facebook increased from just a million in 2004 to over 750 million in 2011.
Facebook - Users by Age.

According to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly unique visitors, having overtaken main competitor MySpace in April 2008.[115] ComScore reports that Facebook attracted 130 million unique visitors in May 2010, an increase of 8.6 million people.[116] According to Alexa, the website's ranking among all websites increased from 60th to 7th in worldwide traffic, from September 2006 to September 2007, and is currently 2nd.[117] Quantcast ranks the website 2nd in the U.S. in traffic,[118] and Compete.com ranks it 2nd in the U.S.[119] The website is the most popular for uploading photos, with 50 billion uploaded cumulatively.[120] In 2010, Sophos's "Security Threat Report 2010" polled over 500 firms, 60% of which responded that they believed that Facebook was the social network that posed the biggest threat to security, well ahead of MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn.[121]

Facebook is the most popular social networking site in several English-speaking countries, including Canada,[122] the United Kingdom,[123] and the United States.[124][125][126][127] In regional Internet markets, Facebook penetration is highest in North America (69 percent), followed by Middle East-Africa (67 percent), Latin America (58 percent), Europe (57 percent), and Asia-Pacific (17 percent).[128]

The website has won awards such as placement into the "Top 100 Classic Websites" by PC Magazine in 2007,[129] and winning the "People's Voice Award" from the Webby Awards in 2008.[130] In a 2006 study conducted by Student Monitor, a New Jersey-based company specializing in research concerning the college student market, Facebook was named the second most popular thing among undergraduates, tied with beer and only ranked lower than the iPod.[131]

On March 2010, Judge Richard Seeborg issued an order approving the class settlement in Lane v. Facebook, Inc., the class action lawsuit arising out of Facebook's Beacon program.

In 2010, Facebook won the Crunchie "Best Overall Startup Or Product" for the third year in a row[132] and was recognized as one of the "Hottest Silicon Valley Companies" by Lead411.[133] However, in a July 2010 survey performed by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Facebook received a score of 64 out of 100, placing it in the bottom 5% of all private-sector companies in terms of customer satisfaction, alongside industries such as the IRS e-file system, airlines, and cable companies. The reasons why Facebook scored so poorly include privacy problems, frequent changes to the website's interface, the results returned by the News Feed, and spam.[134]

In December 2008, the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory ruled that Facebook is a valid protocol to serve court notices to defendants. It is believed to be the world's first legal judgement that defines a summons posted on Facebook as legally binding.[135] In March 2009, the New Zealand High Court associate justice David Gendall allowed for the serving of legal papers on Craig Axe by the company Axe Market Garden via Facebook.[136][137] Employers (such as Virgin Atlantic Airways) have also used Facebook as a means to keep tabs on their employees and have even been known to fire them over posts they have made.[138]

By 2005, the use of Facebook had already become so ubiquitous that the generic verb "facebooking" had come into use to describe the process of browsing others' profiles or updating one's own.[139] In 2008, Collins English Dictionary declared "Facebook" as its new Word of the Year.[140] In December 2009, the New Oxford American Dictionary declared its word of the year to be the verb "unfriend", defined as "To remove someone as a 'friend' on a social networking site such as Facebook. As in, 'I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.'"[141]

In April 2010, according to The New York Times, countries with the most Facebook users were the United States, the United Kingdom, and Indonesia.[142] Indonesia has become the country with the second largest number of Facebook users, after the United States, with 24 million users, or 10% of Indonesia's population.[143] Also in early 2010, Openbook was established, an avowed parody (and privacy advocacy) website[144] that enables text-based searches of those Wall posts that are available to "Everyone", i.e. to everyone on the Internet.

Writers for The Wall Street Journal found in 2010 that Facebook apps were transmitting identifying information to "dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies". The apps used an HTTP referrer which exposed the user's identity and sometimes their friends'. Facebook said, "We have taken immediate action to disable all applications that violate our terms".[145]
Privacy

According to comScore, an internet marketing research company, Facebook collects as much data from its visitors as Google and Microsoft, but considerably less than Yahoo!.[146] In 2010, the security team began expanding its efforts to reduce the risks to users' privacy,[121] but privacy concerns remain. On November 6, 2007, Facebook launched Facebook Beacon, which was an ultimately failed attempt to advertise to friends of users using the knowledge of what purchases friends made.
Criticism
Main article: Criticism of Facebook

Facebook has met with controversies. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including the People's Republic of China,[147] Vietnam,[148] Iran,[149] Uzbekistan,[150] Pakistan,[151] Syria,[152] and Bangladesh on different bases. For example, it was banned in many countries of the world on the basis of allowed content judged as anti-Islamic and containing religious discrimination. It has also been banned at many workplaces to prevent employees wasting their time on the site.[153] The privacy of Facebook users has also been an issue, and the safety of user accounts has been compromised several times. Facebook has settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property.[154] In May 2011 emails were sent to journalists and bloggers making critical allegations about Google's privacy policies; however it was later discovered that the anti-Google campaign, conducted by PR giant Burson-Marsteller, was paid for by Facebook in what CNN referred to as "a new level skullduggery" and which Daily Beast called a "clumsy smear".[155]

In July 2011 German authorities began to discuss the prohibition of events organized on Facebook. The decision is based on several cases of overcrowding by people not originally invited.[156][157] 1600 "guests" attended the 16th birthday party for a Hamburg girl who accidentally posted the invitation of the event as public. After reports of overcrowding, more than a hundred police were deployed for crowd control. A policeman was injured and eleven participants were arrested for assault, property damage and resistance to authorities.[158] In another unexpected event with overcrowding, 41 young people were arrested and at least 16 injured.[159]

In May 2011, HCL Technologies announced that approximately 50% of British employers had banned Facebook from the work place.[160]
Media impact

In April 2011, Facebook launched a new portal for marketers and creative agencies to help them develop brand promotions on Facebook.[161] The company began its push by inviting a select group of British advertising leaders to meet Facebook's top executives at an "influencers' summit" in February 2010. Facebook has now been involved in campaigns for True Blood, American Idol, and Top Gear.[162]
Social impact

Facebook has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. It can reunite lost family members and friends. One such reunion was between John Watson and the daughter he had been searching for 20 years. They met after Watson found her Facebook profile.[163] Another father-daughter reunion was between Tony Macnauton and Frances Simpson, who had not seen each other for nearly 48 years.[164]

Some studies have named Facebook as a source of problems in relationships. Several news stories have suggested that using Facebook causes divorce and infidelity, but the claims have been questioned and refuted by other commentators.[165][166]

In 2011, a hoax chain letter circulated across Facebook, claiming that recent changes to the site includes charging a fee for its use. The rumor circulates through users posts; as one person would copy-paste the all-caps post, someone in that individual's friends list would read it, copy-paste it to their profile, further spreading the hoax. Though the chain letter has been debunked, it continues to circulate, despite the fact that the log-in screen continues to read, "It's free and always will be."[167]
Political impact
The stage at the Facebook – Saint Anselm College debates in 2008.
Wikinews has related news: Egyptian man names daughter 'Facebook'

Facebook's role in the American political process was demonstrated in January 2008, shortly before the New Hampshire primary, when Facebook teamed up with ABC and Saint Anselm College to allow users to give live feedback about the "back to back" January 5 Republican and Democratic debates.[168][169][170] Charles Gibson moderated both debates, held at the Dana Center for the Humanities at Saint Anselm College. Facebook users took part in debate groups organized around specific topics, register to vote, and message questions.[171]

Over a million people installed the Facebook application 'US politics' in order to take part, and the application measured users' responses to specific comments made by the debating candidates.[172] This debate showed the broader community what many young students had already experienced: Facebook was a popular and powerful new way to interact and voice opinions. An article by Michelle Sullivan of Uwire.com illustrates how the "facebook effect" has affected youth voting rates, support by youth of political candidates, and general involvement by the youth population in the 2008 election.[173]

In February 2008, a Facebook group called "One Million Voices Against FARC" organized an event in which hundreds of thousands of Colombians marched in protest against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC (from the group's Spanish name).[174] In August 2010, one of North Korea's official government websites and the official news agency of the country, Uriminzokkiri, joined Facebook.[175]

In 2010 an English director of public health, whose staff was researching syphilis, linked and attributed a rise in cases of the disease in areas of Britain to Facebook. The reports of this research were rebuked by Facebook as "ignoring the difference between correlation and causation".[176]

In 2011 a controversial ruling by French government to uphold a 1992 decree which stipulates that commercial enterprises should not be promoted on news programs. President Nicolas Sarkozy's colleagues have agreed has said that it will enforce a law so that the words 'Facebook' will not be allowed to be spoken on the television or on the radio.[177]

In 2011, Facebook filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to form a political action committee under the name FB PAC.[178] In an email to The Hill, a spokesman for Facebook said "FB PAC will give our employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process by supporting candidates who share our goals of promoting the value of innovation to our economy while giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected."[179]
Media
Wikinews has news involving Facebook:

* Bloggers investigate social networking websites
* News services and World Wide Web companies increase Persian language services after Iranian presidential election

* At age 102, Ivy Bean of Bradford, England joined Facebook in 2008, making her one of the oldest people ever on Facebook. An inspiration to other residents of the care home in which she lived,[180] she quickly became more widely known and several fan pages were made in her honor. She visited Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife, Sarah, in Downing Street early in 2010.[181] Some time after creating her Facebook page, Bean joined Twitter, when she passed the maximum number of friends allowed by Facebook. She became the oldest person to ever use the Twitter website. At the time of her death in July 2010, she had 4,962 friends on Facebook and more than 56,000 followers on Twitter. Her death was widely reported in the media and she received tributes from several notable media personalities.[182]
* "FriendFace", a December 2008 episode of the British sitcom, The IT Crowd, parodied Facebook and social networking sites in general.[183]
* American author Ben Mezrich published a book in July 2009 about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook, titled The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal.[184]
* In response to the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day controversy and the ban of the website in Pakistan, an Islamic version of the website was created, called MillatFacebook.[185]
* "You Have 0 Friends", an April 2010 episode of the American animated comedy series, South Park, parodied Facebook.[186]
* The Social Network, a drama film directed by David Fincher about the founding of Facebook, was released October 1, 2010.[187] The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, and Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. The film was written by Aaron Sorkin and adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures. No staff members of Facebook, including Zuckerberg, were involved with the project. However, one of Facebook's co-founders, Eduardo Saverin, was a consultant for Mezrich's book. Mark Zuckerberg has said that The Social Network is inaccurate.[188]
* On February 22, 2011, an Egyptian baby was named "Facebook" to commemorate the vital role Facebook and other social media played in Egypt's revolution.[189]
* On May 16, 2011, an Israeli couple named their daughter after the Facebook "like" feature. They explained that it wasn't to advertise for Facebook, but because they fancied the meaning behind the word.[190][191]

See also
San Francisco Bay Area portal
Companies portal
Internet portal

* Ambient awareness
* Cyberstalking
* List of social networking websites
* List of virtual communities with more than 100 million users
* Six degrees of separation

Notes

1. ^ An "active user" is defined by Facebook as a user who has visited the website in the last 30 days.
2. ^ "Monthly growth" is the average percentage growth rate at which the total number of active users grows each month over the specified period.
3. ^ This value is from an investment document. The date is from when the document was revealed to the public, not the actual date that the website reached this many users.

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England v Ireland, A Preview and Player Tips
March 01, 2011

England will play Ireland in the 15th game of the World Cup and both will be coming off matches which went right down to the wire. This will be some sort of a relief – what with the kind of the previous games they had had.

For one, the English had to endure 40k shouting fans at Bangalore which sounded the 400k in real. Ireland were no better in Bangladesh, and the roar at the Shere Bangla would have stunned them.

It will be quieter game at the M Chinnaswamy. The question is whether it will help the two teams in coming up with quality cricket? Will the English bowlers send down some better spells than they have in their first couple of games, where they went for 292 and 338 respectively? Will Ireland bat better on a flatter track or would the fizz have gone out of their cricket after the close game against Bangladesh?

Some of the players to look out for in the game:
Jonathon Trott:
He has been the key English player since the time he made his debut in 2009 and after a reasonable World Cup against the Dutch side, he failed against India. Against Ireland, on a familiar, flat track, he will look to make things count for the side and could be a good bet to have.

Ian Bell:
Bell may have been clearly out in the India game, but declared not so but it was interesting to see the manner in which he handled the Indian bowling overall. He seems to be getting into his own really quickly and one gets the sense that he could play a really big innings in the game.

Stuart Broad:
A risky proposition if unfit but if he does make it to the playing eleven one can be rest assured that he would be a bowler to handle for the inexperienced Irish side. He has the ability to bowl bouncers, slow or the quick ones, apart from the Yorkers, and that is where he could be the one to pick up the wickets. The question is whether he will play.

William Porterfield:
Porterfield leads the Irish side and has been one of their better batsmen in recent times. He did have a half century in the warm-up games and despite not getting a move in the first game against Bangladesh, he could be one to bat through the innings. Get him in.

Niall O Brien:
Wicket-keeper to take all the catches, he is also one of the best batsmen in the side. Injury forced him into a long rehabilitation last year but he seems to have recovered well as his innings of 38 showed in the Bangladesh game.

George Dockrell:
The one lone spinner that Ireland have. Had figures of 2/23 against Bangladesh, a side which plays spin rather well. Would be an interesting pick.

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