1. Facebook Presentation
Created by:
Tamás Kerekes

2. What is Facebook?
• A portal for social networking
• Interact with friends
• Share photos and/or videos
• Community organizing
• Email and instant messaging
• Various forms of interpersonal communication
• Operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.

3. Who Created Facebook?
• Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook while
at Harvard University in 2004 with
roommate Dustin Moskovitz and fellow
Computer Science major Chris Hughes.
• Initially created for college students
• Then moved to include high school
students
• Now open to anyone over the age of 13

4. Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz
and Chris Hughes

5. Users

6. Earnings
• Though Facebook is privately held and doesn’t
publicly disclose its earnings, various press and
analysts’ estimates of its 2008 revenues span
from $250 million to $400 million.
• Facebook generates revenue through display
advertising
• New York Times,
March 2009

7. Features
• News Feed – highlights profile changes, birthdays and upcoming events
• Wall – space on profile page to post messages
• Photos – upload albums, tag friends and comment on photos
• Videos – share videos; maximum length is twenty minutes and maximum
size is 1GB
• Notes – blogging feature
• Gifts – send friends a small icon such as smiley face or little green patch
• Status – users update what they are currently doing, thinking or planning
• Events – a way to let people know about upcoming events

8. Example of Wall posting

9. Pros
• Keep in touch with friends and family
• Share photos and videos
• Connect with classmates
• Stay informed on community events
• Select your own level of privacy
• Ability to reject friend requests
• A tool to be used in teaching students cyber
ethics

10. Cons
• Information and pictures may be used
against a person
• Cyber bullying
• Students under 18 providing too much
information (full
name, address, birthday, school, etc.)

11. How can Teachers and Parents
Help?
• Talk to our students
• Discuss online safety
• Check privacy settings
• Explain ethical behavior and cyber bullying
• Share how certain pictures and words can
damage a persons future
• Keep computers in an openly accessible room in
the house
• Ask questions

12. How to select privacy settings on
your Facebook account
• Privacy
• Profile
• Control who can see your profile and personal information.
• Search
• Control who can search for you, and how you can be contacted.
• News Feed and Wall
• Control what Recent Activity is visible on your profile and in your friends' home
pages.
• Applications
• Control what information is available to applications you use on Facebook.
• Block People
• If you block someone, they will not be able to find you in a Facebook search, see
your profile, or interact with you through Facebook channels (such as Wall posts,
Poke, etc.). Any Facebook ties you currently have with a person you block will be
broken (for example, friendship connections, Relationship Status, etc.). Note that
blocking someone may not prevent all communications and interactions in third-party
applications, and does not extend to elsewhere on the Internet.
• Person