Ahiliya Singh
Facebook is a social networking site with over six hundred million users. It was created by Mark Zuckerberg and some of his friends from his computer science class at Harvard University. It was launched on the 4th of February in the year 2004. It is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. It was initially only open for use for the Harvard University students and now it is open for everybody who is more than 13 years of age. It requires registration before it can be used and free for all users.
Facebook users can customize their profile after they have registered for an account. They can upload photos, videos and write on their wall about their recent activities.
Friends can browse the profiles of others and comment on their photos and recent updates or just write on the person’s wall. Additionally, users can also join common interest user groups. This is
a very good tool which I identified on Facebook. It’s a good way to do group discussions and keep in touch
Tagging of photos is another way of sharing on Facebook. Even link sharing is an option on Facebook, which makes information sharing very easy, and is a great tool for students.
Though Facebook is a social networking site, it has all the essential tools for a teacher to connect students and share information, either in form of links, videos, photos, and even notes.
However, using the site too much can make people less inclined to interact face to face with other people. Facebook is also an easy way to replace the outside world with spending all day surfing other peoples profiles, which is somewhat not very “healthy” for students.
Facebook can be compared to MySpace; one significant difference between the two websites is the level of customization. Another difference is Facebook's requirement that users give their true identity, a demand that MySpace does not make. MySpace allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), while Facebook only allows plain text. After using Facebook for two years now, l believe that it is one of those most valuable web 2.0 tools which helps us to connect and share with people we know and it can be a very good tool for teachers since it has very useful application, which makes information sharing very easy.
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