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Date Submitted: 03/11/2012 11:14 PM
It is very common to hear the word ‘Facebook’ these days. Facebook is a social network, very popular to teenagers because it lets people meet new people around the world. Despite the addictive that a social network can be, Facebook offers many benefits to its users. Facebook lets you share information, interact with friends and play games online.
Sharing information using the internet can be a tricky move because everybody can read or see what you have posted. Facebook offers you a privacy policy option, with which you can chose who can and can not see your “posts”. In addition, Facebook has improves and now lets you upload photos and videos in your and other’s “walls”. This is good, especially for people that have family in another country. For them, Facebook is a way to keep in touch, and share photos of special events. For example, if you missed you cousin’s wedding; you don’t have to wait two months to see the pictures. You can see the photos the moment your cousin shares them on Facebook.
Besides the sharing options that Facebook offers, this social networks lets you interact with other people. There are three ways to do it. The first way to interact with friends is to write in their “walls”, which are the principal page of their Facebook accounts better known as ‘home’. Also, you can comment their status or photos. If people write you back, you will receive an email and you can start a conversation right away. Another way of contact people is send them a private message: this is better if you do not want other people to participate in the conversation. The last option to use to interact with other people and the fastest one is the “chat” room. Once you are log in into your account, you are online; and you can check out who is online too and send them a message via chat room.
Finally, having a Facebook account introduces you to the online “games” world. Facebook has a lot of applications that let you play a variety of games while you are...