Facebook Features

Facebook is one of the most popular social networking websites on the internet. It is used to connect and interact with friends.

Facebook has many great features that are often overlooked. This page describes all of the best features available on the website.

The Facebook News Feed feature was added to the website on September 6, 2006.http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2207967130

News Feed is the default view of the website and displays information on status and profile changes, birthdays, upcoming events and other useful information.

After initial criticism, options were added to allow users to turn off individual types of information, such as status updates.

The Wall is a feature on every Facebook user's profile page that allows friends to post direct messages. Posts made to a user's wall are visible by anyone with privelages to see that user's profile. Posts made to the wall also show up on the News Feed.

Facebook features a photo application that allows users to upload albums of photos, tag friends and leave comments on photos. It is one of most popular features on Facebook.

Facebook Photo Statistics (May 21, 2007)http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2207967130

• 1.7 billion user photos
• 2.2 billion friends tagged in user photos
• 160 terabytes of photo storage used with an extra 60 terabytes available
• 60+ million photos added each week which take up 5 terabytes of disk space
• 3+ billion photo images served to users every day
• 100,000+ images served per second during our peak traffic windows

Facebook Notes is a feature that allows users to create blog posts as well as import blogs from other services.http://mashable.com/2006/08/22/facebook-notes-facebook-adds-blogs/

Many users also use Notes to post their answers to survey type questions such as "25 Random Things About Me".