Facebook

Summary & Overview

Facebook is a global social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University. The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over.
The website currently has more than 300 million active users worldwide.

A January 2009 Compete.com study has ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.

Basic Use

Your profile should be all about you, as a person, as people will be more inclined to add you as a friend. Be sure, however, to include your business domain name to the website section in your personal profile. This is the only place in your profile that should have to do with business. Remember, this is an opportunity for people to get to know the “real you,” and begin relating to you as a person, before they begin doing business with you. So be real with who you are, your hobbies and interests, your personal priorities or causes, etc. as this will assist you in building relationships.