James
Catalano October 28, 2013
Mr. Hennings
BCA
"Facebook"
Facebook is perhaps the most popular
social networking website with about 1 billion users currently. Created in 2004,
Facebook allows people to interact with one another by being virtual friends. You can post on their timelines, play games
together, have private or group chat, read their daily posts and view a lot of
their personal information. Facebook has
not only grown to be the primary place of social interaction, but is also a
useful place for people to gain information on any topic imaginable and for businesses
to broadcast themselves to others.
Over the years, Facebook has become
the main website for businesses to market their companies to others and
interact with customers. There are about
1 million businesses and companies that have an active account on
Facebook. If people on Facebook like
your business they can "Like" your page to have updates about the
company come up on their feed. Companies
then use this account to post different things about their company such as new
products and big discounts to alert their customers. This allows the company to hear back from its
consumers and it is a way to improve their company PR by creating a positive
image to a large group of people. However,
this can lead to negative effects because now people can post bad things about
a company that may or may not be true by commenting on their posts. This can lead to negative impacts on the
business if enough people view these comments. Businesses can also pay for advertising on
Facebook users' newsfeeds, even if the user is not a follower of their
page. Facebook has revolutionized the
way businesses market themselves to the world.
The biggest use of Facebook is for
social interaction. People can friend
request each other in order to exchange personal information that they are
sharing with the website and in order to view posts. Also by being friends with others, Facebook
users can post on their friends' timelines anything they want such as links,
videos, game requests or songs. They can
also directly chat with one another and compete in online games together. By being friends with someone on Facebook,
you can learn a lot more about people and gain a virtual friend that you may
share common interests with. However,
this can lead to abuse as their have been many cases of people bullying and stalking
others. This can lead to all kinds of
personal problems, crimes being committed and even indirectly related to
deaths.
Facebook also is used largely for
entertainment and for news. Entertainment
and news on Facebook go hand in hand with each one another in that you can find
news on virtually anything that entertains you. There
is information about nearly every subject on the website. People can spend hours on Facebook because of
all the news it contains about politics, celebrities, sports, music, pop
culture etc. In fact, many TV
channels/shows and news programs have their own Facebook pages and are
constantly posting interesting information.
Due to this the average Facebook user spends about an hour a day on the
website just browsing from topic to topic and reading their feed containing
information about friends, family and world news that interests them. This type of customized news entertains
people and is one reason why Facebook is one of the most popular websites in
the world. However, the availability of
all this information and endless entertainment has negative effects. Sometimes people spend too much time on the
computer than they should because they are spending too much time checking and
updating Facebook. This can lead to some
people becoming addicted to it.
Facebook also has many recreational
uses as well. These uses include playing
games, watching videos and just reading through your news feed. Games such as Candy Crush, Farmville and Diamond
Dash are examples of ways people can spend their time on Facebook. By playing these games, people can challenge
their friends and other users to beat their personal best scores. This is another way to socially interact with
others on the site. However, this can
lead to abuse as many people get annoyed with game requests that they receive
from friends and may even remove them as a friend because of it. People can also use the site recreationally
by just surfing through their newsfeed and looking at friends, businesses, celebrities
and other pages full of information for hours on end. Facebook is simply just a fun site to use for
many people; which is one reason why it is among the most popular websites
visited in the world.
Links
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/10/04/facebook-has-a-billion-users-and-a-revenue-question/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TwKVSOrR-0
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-does-an-average-facebook-user-do-2013-3
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.statisticbrain.com/
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