Sunday, December 12, 2010

Conclusion


What we have learned from our research about Facebook?

Facebook Definition:
Facebook is social website where people meet, it have a main idea about friends meeting or making new relationships in the same website even if they are far away from each other, meaning they can contact to any country in the wide world.
Who is the founder of the Facebook?
The founder of the facebook was a student in Harvard University in Boston. His name is Mark Zuckerberg. He launched his website on February 4, 2004, it started as thefacebook.com then in 2005 he decided to delete (the) so it changed to facebook.com
Why its attractive?
What makes it special or attractive more than other websites is that Facebook have a lot of services, entertainment, information page for every user, personal page, free space for the user which called (Wall), friends can chat with each other ,and every user can add his images and albums and share it with other friends.
Facebook competitors:
There are a lot of social sites which can consider as Facebook competitors. The popular facebook competitors are Twitter, blogger, MySpace, Tagged...etc. In general, Facebook is the best social site in the network.
Threats affecting Facebook:
Every company have few Problems. Even biggest companies in the world have problems such as Facebook. Facebook problems are:
1- Privacy ( the 33-page Document):
Privacy is important to be successful in social network . The 33-page document gives the power to agents from local police, FBI, and Secret Service to entire to social network sites as an undercover fed to search for information, photo, video, and to chat with any suspect.
2- Click jacking
Click jacking is web sites contain codes can harm your computer and take any action that could affect your browser without your knowledge.
3- Spammy Wall Posts, Inbox Messages, and Chat Messages
This method is the most popular. Criminals send spammy messages and posts in the user wall with links that have viruses or to bluff you to but your username and password etc… .
4- Money Transfer Scams
Money Transfer scam is dangerous method to steal from the users, but Indirectly. This scam use friends as a motivation for the user to transfer money to the criminals account. They send massages to the user and shows that the massage from the user friend and Claims that he/she is in needs money and if the user can transfer the money to their account.
5- Password Interception
Its popular if a person have the same password for facebook and his/her important files or emails account. So, some users fooled with some methods that ask their user name and password.
6- Lack of User Control of Information
Some user are Obsessed about facebook and uploading on facebook. So, they upload almost all photos and videos they have, but this continuous uploading have a negative effect on people how are on the content of the uploaded file.

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