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.
