As you could read from my last post, there's many social media applications I'm using currently and almost daily. This assignment was to write about two of the most familiar applications. As you can guess, I'm writing about Facebook and Instagram, because these are the two "main" applications for me and I'm using them usually several times a day.
First, let's take a look about Facebook. Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg with the help from his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Matt Cohler, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin. The main guy was Mark Zuckerberg and he kinda stole the idea from guys, who had been inventing this same kind of application, called ConnectU. Facebook was launched 2004 and at first, it was designed only for university. Although the word was out there and Facebook was getting more attention and more users daily. When the firs year was ending, there was already almost million users in Facebook. Next year, 2005, Facebook really broke trough and reached also abroad which caused that in the end of 2005 there was five and half million users in Facebook.
In Finland, Facebook started to spread out in October 2007. There was 58 million active users in Facebook and the translation in Finnish was ready in the spring of 2008. There is probably about 2 million Finnish users, which is kinda funny because there is only 5 489 821 residents in Finland. So that makes it that almost half of the population is in the Facebook. Over a half of the Finnish users is women, according to Wikipedia site. Nowadays Facebook is also a strong way of marketing and advertising for your company, team, group, band or almost anything you can imagine.
It's an easy way to find old and new friends, when you join to Facebook. You can add anyone you want, but it's their choice if they're going to add you or not. Then you can keep up with their updates and pictures, which are popping up on your news feed. More you visit or like person's updates or pictures, more likely it's that those updates and pictures and stuff keep on coming on your feed. It's nice that you can for example add your old school friends and change your thoughts easily through computer or a cell phone. Also you can find new friends through different groups and sites, if you're social person and in need of a new friends. It's also kinda safe to make new friends in Facebook, because usually you have to use your real name and pictures. But also you can choose, which information you are sharing with your friends and those people, who are not in your friend list.
As I wrote last time, there is also a change of establishing different groups and sites. Sites are usually for a companies, groups etc. and on them, you can easily update your feelings and happenings with pictures or videos or just with the words. You can like the site you want and then it's really easy to keep up with the updates on the site, because they are popping up on your front page, when your browsing through your Facebook news feed. The more you visit on the site, more you see on your feed. Groups are a bit different from the sites and you can create a group for almost anything. Nowadays the most used groups are these second hand store groups, I guess. There's those special groups for almost anything beside the "old", familiar groups where you can sell and buy almost anything you want. Selling and buying on Facebook is pretty easy, though it also tempts many scammers. Along with these sites, you can create a group for example for your friends or team or congenial people. You can hide your group, which means that not everyone can find or join it and they have to ask for a permission to join. This is useful, when you need a group for example planning some events or parties. Events are also a useful thing on Facebook. You can create a special event and then invite people to it. It makes it easy to know how many people are gonna attend and to hear from them before and after event. There is also a change of providing information, like payments and maps etc.
Nowadays the most useful thing with the Facebook is the messenger. You can use messenger with your computer or with your phone, if you download it from the store. When you have it in your phone, you have all Facebook messages in real time and can also answer them with your phone. Kinda new thing with this Messenger is, that you can also call to your friend even if you don't have his/hers phone number. It's useful but come to think about it, it might also be quite uncomfortable or even dangerous.
I use Facebook daily and check the news feed and certain groups several times a day. News feed is being browsed almost every time when I'm bored or there's just nothing else to do. i don't know if it's common or just in my phone, but my phone keeps showing different things and people almost every time I browse through it. I think that I might not survive without Facebook nowadays, because it has been really useful so many times in my life. First coming to my mind is the time when our city's church was on fire, I first got the news from Facebook and as I heard, so did many other people and haven't maybe even know about the fire, if there wasn't Facebook to spread the news. Yeah, this wasn't a pleasant memory, but makes clear, how helpful it can be. And also, it makes it so easy to keep up with your friends even if they don't live in the same city as you. I think this is all what I have to say about Facebook this time. Otherwise this post could stretch and stretch and no-one will read this all the way.
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