Facebook

Facebook is a free social network service. The network is made up of thousands of networks based around organizations, education and regions.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004. It was first only used by students of his university, Harvard. After it became successful in a short amount of time the network expanded to other American universities and high schools. In September 2006 Facebook opened registration for everyone.
The personal page has basic design and functions. Users can create a personal profile and post messages for their friends.

Facebooks biggest advantage over most other social networking sites is that it allows for any third party to make Facebook applications.
Facebook users are more mature than the users of Hi5 or Myspace.

The website looks straightforward, no decoration or distracting images are used.

You need to sign up with your full name, email address, password and birthday. The minimum age to join Facebook is 13.

Facebook is free. An marketing initiative called Facebook Beacon was criticised because it shared more information with advertisers than was previously stated. Mark Zuckerberg apologized and the Beacon feature became opt-in instead of opt-out.

Facebook is the most popular network for students in the US and some other countries. People who like to customize their profile with little third party apps definitely need to try Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/