What is the Facebook Application?

July 7, 2009

Have you ever heard of the concept of social networking? If you haven’t, it simply means an Internet platform for you and your friends to hang out and share ideas and content with minimum restrictions. When it comes to the target audience, there are no restrictions. As long as you portray a legitimate profile within the conditions laid out by Facebook Inc., the founders of Facebook, you can connect to as many individuals in the world.

Although Facebook started off as a social networking platform for individuals, now it has been enhanced to serve the corporations as well. In addition to that, now users can post their ads by simply paying Facebook a price per click.

By now, Facebook has become the most popular social networking site on the Internet with a user base of 150 million users around the globe. Facebook Inc. uses heavy infrastructure for catering the growing user demands and it has been successful so far.

With the large volume of users, Facebook encounters various issues that are specific for websites that are famous and has a large user base. Security or rather privacy of the information is one of the prominent issues that the Facebook team constantly works on.

Facebook is one of the first Web 2.0 applications made available to the Internet, making it attractive to many segments of Internet users. Since the inceptions, this social networking platform has introduced many revolutionary concepts in to Web 2.0 including many of user created applications.

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emily autry July 29, 2009 at 12:43 pm

i need to cancel my membership right now,but i forgot my password,so i don”t need to have this kind of drama in my life right now?

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jim milligan August 14, 2009 at 6:17 pm

when i enter my emailandthen my password i repeatedly the response password doe not match email address

when i reset my password the response is that ther is already a membership under that password need help

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Naomi Meadows August 18, 2009 at 1:15 am

Please help me get on to face book. I has never let me on since I signed on saying invalid password. Cancel and let me start over please.

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Naomi Meadows August 18, 2009 at 1:22 am

I did not receive a reply. Please, I am hearing from so many old friends and unable to answer them.

I will be 80 next month and do not catch on easy and I sometimes forget which way I set up my password but have repeatedly put it in both ways and I know one has to be correct and I still cannot get on. I put in my home town and my date of birth always.Please help,Thanks

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Naomi Meadows August 18, 2009 at 1:24 am

It would be easier if you just cancel my account and let he put a new one in. It does not hhave to be my e mail address does it?

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curt coval August 31, 2009 at 9:03 pm

i have tried three different times to be able to sign on face book….each time it asks for comfirmation code…i never recieved one in my email…about to give up….totally frustrated…cant respond to anyone in my group…

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