Monday, December 21, 2009

Facebook : Internet Social Networking



I believe that some of you has your own Internet’s social networking to keep in touch with old and new friends. Amid all of it, to opt Facebook is the most popular and being used widely all over the world by individuals, companies and etc.
Individual that keen to publish their up-to-date story, what they eat, where they go, preference, emotions and etc. being updated and can be reached by PC, laptop, mobile phone by their cliques.

It was created by Mark Zuckerberg who creates Facebook and turns himself into billionaire, which Facebook makes most of its money from advertising.
Microsoft has taken 1.6% or $240 million Facebook’s stake from an online bidding which Facebook supports a software for Microsoft’s Xbox games.

Zuckerberg who is a 24-year old Jewish boy, created Facebook limited user to Harvard’s students and then give wide-ranging access throughout public users. To expand the number of users, he has sold part of his stake in the company in exchange for server space. In addition, Facebook market value is estimated around $15 billion.

Before Facebook, in 2002, another social networking that used to be so famous called Friendster has 75 million users worldwide, while the current Facebook has 350 million active users worldwide.

In Malaysia, some companies including Government and Private sector has blocked the Facebook from their IT access to discourage employees from wasting time using the service instead of doing their work. The productivity at work is dismal because they spend most of the day reading it because of addicted to it.
Despite this, Malaysian’s cellular telecommunication service provider, Celcom, has offer Facebook link throughout mobile phone SMS with an affordable rate of RM1 for a week, which subscriber can indulge themselves with a pouring SMS into their inbox.

Here are some surefire signs that you are addicted*:
  1. You are late for meetings because you are on Facebook.

  2. You think about it when you are offline.

  3. Your friends and family comment on your excessive internet use.

  4. You check your accounts from your Blackberry.

  5. You get stressed when a Facebook “friend” doesn’t add you.
    * based on http://www.thedailymind.com/productivity/facebook-syndrome-8-ways-to-beat-your-facebook-addiction/

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