Facebook - A Must-Read Review for Users

When Facebook started in 2004, it was initially exclusive for Harvard students only, but a month after, it has included students from Standford, Columbia and Yale, and soon after, it just kept adding more schools and eventually became available to several countries world wide.

Facebook became popular as a social networking site because it gets a lot of traffic and has a good page rank, and these are the things that is needed to market products and services in social networking sites. Most of it's users are college students and young professionals, making it a good venue to market products and services.

It is basically easy to sign up for an account. All you need to do is go to www.facebook.com and fill up the information needed, and confirm your account through your email. Once you are done, you can start adding up friends in your network by searching for friends from your school or work place. But before we go further we need to discuss all the positive and negative things that people get from this social networking site.

Because it is a social networking site used my young adults, we expect them to be young professionals too, who report to their jobs everyday. The features of this website makes them spend several minutes to hours a day browsing through pictures, friends, and other features which means it basically eats up some of their time which must be spent on their jobs.

While some people are too confident in publishing everything about themselves from pictures to basically every private detail there is about them, there is a great risk that their identities may be exposed to hackers and thieves. This is the thing that most people usually ignore, that they need to be careful at exposing their identities online.

Looking at the brighter side, this social networking site can be used to search for buddies with whom you have lost contact just by searching, using the name of your schools or previous companies where you used to work together. Companies who are searching for probable candidates on their job vacancies can also utilize this website to look for the person they need.

This social networking site can also be used in bookmarking, and because the website has a good page rank, it is good to save links on it that points to your own website.

Just because Facebook is used by everyone else, it does not necessarily mean that you must also use it without knowing about it first. It would be good to know to read this review first to guide you in setting up your account and eventually protect you and help you get the most from it.