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A web community that I am interested in is facebook. This can be found by going http://www.facebook.com/



Facebook is a free social networking website launched in February 2004 and operated and privately owned by Facebook, Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college. Anyone age 13 or older can become a Facebook user.



Facebook is a very interactive site allowing friends to connect with each other and share information. People contribute by adding photos or videos of themselves which then can be viewed by their friends. Friends can also write on other friends walls and send them private messages. It is very much run by the user.




Topics that are discussed on facebook is things such as what the person is doing or the person writing to a friend asking them how they are etc. A lot of people use it to catch up with people that they have not seen for a long time an example of a message is...
Hi Melissa how are you it has been a long time since I have seen you! What are you studying?? It would be lovely to catch up with you.



Ethical issues that may arise are that the information put on facebook can be viewed by all your friends, which makes it a very public place. so privacy is an issue. It is important to be careful what you put on facebook as it could become the latest gossip. Photos are also uploaded to facebook it is important that you have the people in the photos permission to put them on the site as anyone can view these photos.



Facebook is a great way for friends all over the world to stay in touch with each other. This is because you are able to view each others page and see photos of each other and write messages. It is a great way for people to stay in touch and feel that they are not out of the loop. It has no geographical limits.

A disadvantage of facebook is that you are not having face to face contact with a person. This means that social skills are not being developed and may result in a community that does not know how to communicate with each other.