Thursday, April 9, 2009

Facebook assesment

FACEBOOK

Wikipedia defined facebook as: " a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus."

^^The definition provides a general outline for what facebook is and what it does. However wikipedia's background is more of an issue due to the fact that all the information provided on wikipedia is from account memebers from the public and many definitions are personal definitions, despite being 100% accurate it can also be 100% false. With that being said I am not sure about the paperback facebook orgins.

The wiki does provide a well rounded and overall encyclopedia definition by including history, financial, website, etc.

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