A Case Study about Facebook

The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg. He is born on May 14 1984. He is an American computer scientist, software developer and philanthropist best known for creating the social networking site facebook, of which he is CEO and president.

To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network, and copied the houses' private dormitory ID images. The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004. He was inspired, he said, by an editorial in Harvard Crimson about the Facemash incident.

 On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.On October 24, 2007, Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.

Facebook also became the top social network across eight individual markets in Asia—the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Vietnam, while other brands commanded the top positions in certain markets, including Google-owned Orkut in India, Mixi.jp in Japan, CyWorld in South Korea, and Yahoo!’s Wretch.cc in Taiwan.

Inspirational Uses of Facebook

There are many good uses of facebook.

For example:

- For Literature, the student can create a page for a character in the story he/she is  studying on to make the lesson even real.

- Have students follow someone related to what you are studying, such as following President Obama when looking at government.

- Learn to create Facebook application.

- If a student is practising a foreign language, they can practice with native speakers on Facebook.

- Students can also create better working relationship with their friend and teacher on Facebook.

- You can create groups for entire class or for smaller subsets such as study groups on Facebook.

- Students can post their book reviews for the teacher to grade and other students to read on a class Facebook page.

- Set up a Facebook page to showcase student projects.

Cyberwellness tips for Facebook...

You should never reveal your identity.Instead, have an online identity that doesnt reveal your age, gender and most importantly, it must be original, something out of this world and something that you like because for exmaple, you wouldn't want somebody to call you toilet bowl unless you like it.

Also, whatever information you post online is public so i encourage you to try not to reveal your personal information. You can also set your settings to private so that only your friends can see it and not other strangers.

Another tip, try to stay away from strangers by ignoring their friend request and also don't chat with them. Try to keep a distance...

Dangers of Facebook...

Facebook can be very fun and often gets people to be Facebook addicts but do you know that there are dangers behind it? Well, some examples of the dangers when you use Facebook is:
- If you post personal details and photos that reveal your identity, there is a high risk of you and maybe your friends being in danger. This is because strangers who plan to harm you are able to check your account for details and that makes it easier for them to find you.

- Chatting with strangers who you don't know can also put yourself in danger.

Interesting Facts About Facebook

Using Facebook, users are able to:

- Chat in the chatroom with family and friends

- Create a personal profile of oneself

- Post about one's life at that point in time or even post pictures from a birthday party or other events.

                                                    -There's more than 30,million users on Facebook

Cyberwellness

Cyberwellness talks about the dangers of the Internet and how to avoid becoming a victim of people who intend to harm you. Firstly,let me introduce you to the 4 Cyber Wellness Values and they are:

1. Be Street-Smart

2. Be Resposible & Respectful

3. Achieve Balance

4. Embrace Inspirational Use of the Internet

In order to have all these values of cyberwellness in yourself, you need to avoid the dangers of the Internet by always playing safe. In that way you will have a lower risk of becoming one of those victims.

Let me inform you about some examples of dangers when using the Internet:
1. There is exposure to inappropiate content
2. There are hackers who break into the computers of companies and government agencies in order to destroy and leak information. These offenders also try to recruit children to carry out these assignments.
3. Sometimes, children make friends and meet new people until they are tempted to meet them outside the virtual space. Meetings of this kind could also endanger your safety.
4. Romantic relationships on the Web are widespread for all ages, often relationships are created with people not in your age group.

So, these are some of the examples of what could happen to you on the Internet if you do not take care of yourself.Now let me remind you too that whatever you reveal on the Internet is PUBLIC.It is freely accessible to anyone once you posted it online.Hence, you are strongly encouraged not to post any of your personal details.(eg. phone number,gender,school,name and address)

Another thing that you should take note is that you should have an online nickname that does not reveal your gender & age, it must be something original,out of this world and also something that you like.(eg. Sweetyummy,groovybaby and blur_sotong)

Finally, always remember to set your privacy settings to private and NEVER reveal any personal info. that can expose yourself to strangers.THINK first before you ACT.

Thank You!