Facebook: a Social Network

Facebook is a website or a social network that connects you with your friends, family members, your colleagues, or other people who either know you or want to get to know you. Facebook allows you to share information and create an open and connected environment in the world. This social network was created in February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, in the goal of gathering and connecting people who may know each other or not. Thanks to Facebook, one could find his/her classmates during the pre-school, the crèche or the kindergarten just by typing his/her name in the search box. In addition, users utilize this website to share photos, videos, and messages with their friends. Facebook proposes also to its users a bunch of applications and quizzes that the user could use after inviting a certain number of people. Moreover, this social network offered to subscribers a chat function in April 2008 that allows users to show their online status to their friends and discuss various topics in a private platform. Facebook announced 100 million users in last august 25, and was ranked the fifth most visited website across the planet.
However, the personal information delivered by the users could be used by Facebook to send targeted ads in terms of the different characteristics of the profile as the age, sex, nationality, and level of education. Furthermore, according to Le Figaro in 2008, Facebook was used by some companies to select candidates or to control their current employees and know more about their activities and personal lives. Also, it was stated by the same French newspaper that Facebook was used by some parents to monitor their children’s lives.