My Facebook Report

In my report I spoke about Facebook. the subheadings I wrote about were:

• Histery of Facebook
• statistics
• Main points
• advantages
• Disadvantages
• Examples and links
• How to get started
• costs
• potential Dangers
• Suited for Businesses
• Suited for personal life

The histery of Facebook is just amazing, from being started by a undergrad Harvard psycology student, named Mark Zuckerberg. The man was in love with computer programming, he would program and code in his free time at home. When Mark was studying at Harvard he created a site called Facemash. This site was purely to rate other students that were studying at the university on their appearance. Within 24 hours 1200 accounts were created, and within the next few days other universities joined in. Later on Mark changed the name to The Facebook. In 2004 he though that the name was too long so he bought the URL address of someone called Facebook.

There are so many advantages that Facebook provides for people. Some advantages are; you can become more social if you are anti-social when not behind the screen, you can play games on Facebook to relax from stress, you can talk to multiple friends at once without meeting them in real life and you can share your interests with your friends and family.

There are sadly some disadvantages to Facebook, such as cyberbullying. The google dictionary definition of cyberbullying is:
"The use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature".

Cyberbullying happens to nearly everyone on the net. People can get cyberbullied for many reasons such as; showing to much of their body in a image or video, providing the wrong information within their status, that other people may not agree on, etc. Cyberbullying doesn’t usually stop at the screen, in some cases it may carry on into real life and can escalate to so much more.

Facebook is well known for cyberbullying because it is such a popular site. There are many way to reduce cyberbullying. If it is happening to you, you can; block/delete the person, don’t go on Facebook, tell someone and set your privacy setting to friends only.

Here is an example of the format of Facebook and examples of people sharing their interests, through videos, statuses and pictures.

https://www.facebook.com/leadingbyexample

https://www.facebook.com/leadingbyexample