Facebook Time!

This project was definitely not my first time using Facebook.  I basically just use Facebook for socializing. It is a great way to keep in touch and know how all my high school friends are doing. Before I came to college I also used Facebook to help me meet people. I found a few people that I met from orientation and became friends with them. I guess I could say I rarely use Facebook for anything besides socializing...although I have used it to contact my boss and talk about work related material before and have also used it to stay in contact with group members during school projects. 

As the article stated, Facebook could be used for promotion of a business. A business manager or staff worker could make an official group on Facebook and use it to post anything they wanted to about their business. They could post business’s specials, information, employment opportunities, or anything. The possibilities are endless. Facebook could help business’ find out what their consumers think about their products by posting a poll or something similar to their page.

Facebook can also be used in an education manner. Some professors actually make groups that their students must join. In the group they have class discussions and interactions. The professors’ usually have listed their assignments, office hours, questions/concerns, etc.

I think it was acceptable for our Professor to require us as friends. I think being friends with him makes communication a lot easier.  I think if people really had a problem with it, they could of just created a “fake” Facebook (meaning a Facebook created just for the class) and after the assignment was over delete it.  I know a lot of professors’ don’t make it mandatory to friend them (even when they have group discussions on Facebook) but instead make them only have to join the group. In our case, we were all making our own group so that wouldn’t have worked. I think it’s fine that I am a friends with him. If someone has a problem with it after the semester is over you can simply click “delete friend.”

The information I post on Facebook is private. I make sure that no one can see it except my friends. I also have it so that people can’t even search for me. I know there is a chance that someone you do not want seeing something could see it so in a sense I guess it could be public.

I think there are rules of etiquette that people should follow on Facebook but don’t. One rule I think people should follow is do not post awful pictures of other people and then tag them! Come on people! How would you like to be seen like that? I think another rule people should follow is do not post important news as your status instead of calling people individually. For example there was a girl on my Facebook that announced she was pregnant through her status. All of her close friends commented on it asking if she was serious since she hadn’t come to them in person to talk about it first. Another rule don’t send someone a million application requests, if I denied your Farmville the first time, don’t ask me to do it again! I think another rule should be only post pictures you wouldn’t mind having your grandma see. It’s disgusting when you have pictures of people with little to no clothes on or a couple ALL over each other. (I’m not talking about the little kiss pictures, there are disgusting ones out there!)

I have never posted something on Facebook that has left me in an awkward position or situation.

So far I think this was my favorite assignment this semester. :)

Facebook?

Just testing this to see if it posts to my Facebook as it should. :)
*fingers crossed*

Facebook Interview

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Facebook Interview from meaghan o'connor on Vimeo.

Pretty much everybody has a Facebook.  What people use it for and for how long people use it in a session varies. I figured Facebook would be an interesting topic since almost everyone can relate to it.

Let me start of with some basic information about Facebook. Facebook is a social networking site that was created by Mark Zuckerberg and launched out of his Harvard dorm room in February of 2004.  At first the site was just for Harvard college students but in March of 2004 he expanded it to Yale and Stanford Columbia students.

By December of 2004, Facebook reached nearly one million active users.  In May of 2005, Facebook supported 800 network colleges. In August of 2005, Facebook officially becomes the name of the site. (Before it was thefacebook.com) In September of 2005, Facebook expanded to allow high school networks.  By December of 2005, Facebook had 5.5 million active users. In April of 2006, Facebook launched their mobile feature. In September of 2006, Facebook allowed anybody to join. By December of 2006, there are more than 12 million active users on Facebook.  By April of 2007, Facebook had more than 20 million active users and by October of that same year Facebook had more than 50 million active users. Every month more and more people are joining Facebook as of February 2010 there were over 400 million active users.

During my interview I asked Brian if he has every used an application on Facebook and as he stated he only used the bumper sticker application. According to Facebook Statistics there are more than 500,000 active applications on Facebook.

I also discussed with Brian the various methods of accessing Facebook besides using the computer. There are currently more than 100,000 million active users accessing their Facebook through their mobile devices.  There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products.

As I was researching what questions to ask Brian, I found some interesting facts about Facebook. (Maybe, I find them interesting because I consider myself addicted to Facebook but either way I’m sure most people reading this log onto Facebook daily to distract themselves from doing something productive.) The average user has 130 friends on Facebook, and sends about 8 friend requests a month.  The average user spends about 55 minutes a day on Facebook. So I guess Brian was right considering himself an average user when he said he was on about one to two hours a day. The average user comments on 25 Facebook content each month.  The average user becomes a fan (or now it is called like) of 4 pages a month. As I was doing this research I realized I am way beyond the average user and should probably cut back on Facebook!

I also talked to Brian about Facebook and work and whether a person should be judged by their profile. I found something similar while I was researching about Facebook and college. I found that 10% of admission officers have looked at an applicant Facebook before accepting them into college and 38% of them said they saw the applicant in a negative manner afterwards.  Basically, be careful what you put out there it could literally affect the rest of your life.