Zakiah Williams June 17, 2009 Internet Tech Facebook Facebook is a social network that allows people to put up profiles about themselves. It allows people to put up pictures and comments about themselves. People can update pictures, comments, and there status, as often as they want to. By status, people can post whether their single, married, looking, and or their sexual preference. This is to let people know whether they are looking or not. Facebook is the most popular social network. It has about 200 million users world wide. It was started by a college student who was a sophomore in Harvard University. This was in 2004. His name was Mark Zuckerberg. At first it was only accessible to Harvard college students, and then it was extended to other colleges and then high school. It turned into a multimillion dollar business. There was controversial issue over who actually started the company. Three other Harvard college students claimed that they came up with the idea for this social network. They claim that they had him help to code the program, and he stole it. I think that Facebook is changing the way people deal with each other socially. People use face book to find and reunite with each other. People use this social network to keep in touch with family, friends, old classmates etc. instead of people writing and calling each other, they will contact each other on facebook. People use this to keep people up dated on current events. Events such as weddings, birth announcements, and other news. People rely on this as a form of communication. I wouldn’t consider facebook was real time. You could have update as you want to. You can consider it real time. This social network doesn’t really reshape the job industry that much. I guess you could use this to alert people about meetings. There are negative things about this social network. People often get addicted to these sites. People tend to look at their pages all hours the night. This is a negative thing, because people are spending time on these pages, and taking time from important things.