CASE # 3
1. What is Facebook?
Facebook is a social networking site allows developers to contribute applications that interact with facebook features. It was lunched last Feb. 2004, owned by Facebook INC. User are able to search for friends by e-mails, school, universities, or just by typing in a name or location for search. Facebook tells you when your friends are updating their profiles, adding to their blogs or have an account in facebook, they have time to socialize with other friends, amidst the distance and lack of time using facebook.
2. Disadvantage and Advantage of Facebook
Facebook have disadvantage like overcrowding, acquaintances be labeled as friends, contributes wide range procrastination, unsupported by physical adjacency, rampant addition, weakening long distance relationship.If their is disadvantage they have advantage like allows user search for new and old friends, allow members to check students who are talking the same class, living within the same area, or coming from the same academy and it makes less difficult when communicating with strangers or people you are not familiar with, it makes simple to join groups having corresponding likes and dislike.
3. What are the characteristic of Facebook? Why many people engage in this site?
Facebook doesn't begin the conversion, it enhances it, facebook can be a great way to do it. But it comes with extreme diminishing returns, and this goes double with brands that are already well establish. They are non interruptive, at its core, facebook is a communication medium. This isn't always as easy as it sounds but certainly suggest community interaction is essential to adoption. They integrated multiple social mediums.They don't strive for 1:1 communication, but they are active. People engage in facebook because you can search to your friends even they are far. You can communicate with them using facebook. Also it easy to log in and use it because its have a friendsly buttons and instruction on how use facebook.
4. Can you use facebook in E-Commerce?How?Why?
Facebook is aware that E-Commerce site owners may want to capitalize on facebook traffic, so they allow members to create free facebook business as your facebook fans spread the word about your business to their friends. to get started the following business options.
Facebook is aware that E-Commerce site owners may want to capitalize on facebook traffic, so they allow members to create free facebook business as your facebook fans spread the word about your business to their friends. to get started the following business options.
- Advertising- business use this tab to create adverts that will run on facebook pages.
- Pages- business use page to create a presence on facebook that will be others join your page as fan.
- Connect- facebook connect users seamlessly connect their facebook account and information to your site.
- Facebook Share- design a button for your site to make joining your facebook page easy for your customer.
Example: Applications on facebook it use E-Commerce when you buy something.
5. How facebook important in the society today?
Time flies quickly, a few years ago people tend to communicate using wired gadgets such as telephones or ham radios. Today, the internet has reshaped our world beyond our imagination. People now uses desktop or laptop computers not just for work but also for entertainment and communication as well.Part of the ever growing popularity of the facebook as a new means of communication is the advent of social networking sites. These are proprietary websites that can be used by common people to post personal profiles, pictures, videos, music and messages. Users of facebook can invite other "friends" to join their site to be able to view and share personal information on one another.
There are three common importance of using facebook:
- Keeping in touch
- Job hunting
- Emergency
