Facebook

FACEBOOK

Questions:

1. Facebook is unique because it allows you to stay connected with friends and family no matter where they are. You are able to see what people are doing by status updated and even check ins. Check-ins allows you to check in any establishment to let people know where you are. This is great marketing for business when people use this on their Facebook.

2. I believe Facebook is here to stay, because they are the pioneers of social media. I am sure as time goes on other sites will pop up and people will try it out. But they will be here for the long haul. Facebook will have to find ways to adapt to the consumer and stay up with technology. If they are able to do that then they will be a contender with other sites. However, there are other platforms that are trying to duplicate Facebook. Such as, Google +, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr and Instagram.

3. “What Facebook did decide to keep private for users is key personal information — everything not defined as General Information — which it moved to a new category in its privacy settings, called Personal Information and Posts. This includes users’ biographies, birthdays, sexual preference, religious and political views, photo albums, your own posts, the ability for friends to post to your wall, the visibility of friends’ posts on your wall, and comments on posts on your wall. The other category in privacy settings includes what Facebook has newly defined as “Friends, Tags and Connections.” This information can be private in nature, but it includes a social element; your friends also can decide whether or not to reveal the fact that you’re friends with them. They can decide to tag you in a photo or video, and so forth — you can decide to untag the photo, but you can’t delete the photo itself because it belongs to them. The complete list of information in this section includes: friends, family, relationships, photos and videos of yourself, current city, hometown, education and...