CASE #3

1. What is facebook?
Answer: Facebook is a social networking sites which was operated and owned by Facebook Inc. It is first founded on February 2004. Facebook allows the users to keep in touch with their family, relatives, business associates and friends. It makes impossible not to communicate with your old friends. Facebook also allows the users to meet new friends and to be friends with your friends friend. You can share name, address, age, gender or our complete profile. You can also share your interest and even your ideas to your friends if you want. Facebook is also an entertaining website. It is one of the closest competitors of Google and Yahoo. Nowadays, Facebook is the worlds largest networking platform.

2. Advantages and disadvantages of Facebook.
Answer: The advantages of Facebook includes the thing that it allows the users to search for the new and old friends. It is also accessible to chosen universities having a high level of security. Facebook makes it less awkward when communicating with strangers or those people you are not familiar with and it helps you to meet more new friends. It also makes it easier to join those groups having similar with likes and dislikes. Facebook also have disadvantages. One of these is Facebook is overcrowding since there are millions of users. It also makes long distance relationships become weak. Facebook is unsupported by physical adjacey and contributes wide-range procrastination. Ot also causes rampant addiction and stalking is possible in facebook.

3. What are the characteristics of Facebook why many people engaged in this site?
Answer: The characteristics of Facebook that makes many people engaged to it are it is an easy to access and easy to learn networking website. It also allows user to meet new and old friends or even the friends friend. Facebook also allows you to keep in touch with your family, relatives or friend which are away from you. You can upload music, videos and photos in your account. You can upload photos as much as you want because uploading of photos is fast and unlimited. There are lots of application in the Facebook such as informations that are being posted by your friends or by the Facebook Inc. and games,such as farm ville, cafe world, treasure islands & etc., that will entertain or makes you enjoy. It also helps your friend to be updated of your last activity in your facebook account.

4. Can you use Facebook on E-commerce? How? Why?
Answer: Facebook can be use on E-commerce since Facebook is a social linking network that represents a fast growing Internet phenomenon and there are lots of users in this site. Sites like Facebook takes the idea of a blogroll to grow to a new height, connecting friends and businesses associates one a single website. Payvement is a startup that allows anyone to create and operate a retail storefront on Facebook. Payvment’s Facebook App lets you set up products, categories of products (i.e. shoes, T-shirts, sweaters), import photos, list terms of service and shipping options and more. Once you set up your online shop on Facebook, it will show up in a separate tab on your profile or page under “storefront”.You can use videos to connect with your costumers. You can open authentic communication to your costumers using Facebook.

5. How important facebook in the society today?
Answer: Today, the internet has reshaped our world beyond our imagination. People now uses desktop or laptop computers not just for work but also for entertainment and communication as well. Part of the ever growing popularity of the world wide web as a new means of communication is the advent of social networking sites. There are several social networking sites today and one of these is the Facebook. Facebook helps people in keeping in touch with their friends, loved ones, family, distant relatives and even business associates. It can also be used in job hunting. On the other hand, job applicants take advantage of these sites to post their resume and credentials. It's a great tool one can use in order to make a good impression to a company. If you're applying for a computer related job, it would be great to maintain a personal profile.You can also help those people that in needs through facebook. People who seek fund raising and donation can use Facebook.