Facebook Login

Looking for Facebook login? Facebook is considered one of, if not the most popular social networking website on the Internet. The website, which allows users to create interactive profile pages, post photos and play games with those in their network, has over 500 million users worldwide, as of July 2010.http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/science-technology/Facebook-Has-500-Million-Users-Around-World-99149499.html

Facebook was created by 25 year old Mark Zuckerberg, who has been dubbed the world’s youngest billionaire. In 2010, the social networking site was estimated to be worth approximately $25 million.http://www.pcworld.com/article/201650/facebooks_half_billion_users_fun_facts.html?tk=hp_blg Zuckerberg started the site while he was at Harvard University, and within months of its acceptance at his school, Facebook became a popular student network all around the country.http://mashable.com/2006/08/25/facebook-profile/ Since it's establishment, many changes have been made to include people outside of college communities. Facebook is now available to everyone, no matter the age, nationality or education.

Facebook is free for users, while advertisers pay for product placement. What began as a social networking forum for college students, soon overtook other social networking sites like Myspace and Friendster, the latter which is now almost obsolete. Facebook now boasts one of the most diverse group of users on the Internet - anyone from a child first learning to type to generations, x y and z have accounts. As of July, 2010, the number of mobile users of Facebook reached approximately 150 million. This number is up exactly 50% from the 100 million mobile users Facebook counted as of April, 2010.

It’s also become a tool for companies to market themselves by gaining exposure to new clients, customers or members, as well as a place to find hobbies or groups of interest and to post pictures of evolving pregnancies, new haircuts or friends, in addition to just about anything else imaginable.http://www.facebook.com

If you want to join a good portion of the world and start using Facebook, here are some easy to understand login tips to get you on your way.

• Go to Facebook.com
• Enter your information - your name, user name and your chosen password
• You can choose to let the website remember your information or you can type it in every time you login.

After you have created a profile, you can begin exploring all the site has to offer. Here is a short list of just some of the Facebook game applications that are available on the website.

• Cafe World
• Mafia Wars
• Farmville
• Texas HoldEm Poker
• Fishville

On May 13, 2010, Facebook employees and associates held a meeting on privacy standards and the future of privacy for the website.http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/05/14/facebook-privacy-meeting/Debate and controversy had arisen in the weeks before this meeting, and users were very vocal and adamant about privacy issues within Facebook's policy. The company had previously implemented a program that shared the information of Facebook's members with it's partners, without the consent of the users themselves. People's interests were made available to the public, and the community's response to this was negative.http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/05/13/zuckerberg-privacy/

The May 13th meeting was scheduled to resolve this issue and come up with a better overall plan to give users the best experience possible. No further details of this meeting have been revealed.http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/05/14/facebook-privacy-meeting/As of May 2010, all of a user's information will be shared with Facebook partners and will be searchable by the public, unless that user checks a box in the privacy section of their account.http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/facebook-announcement-8-reasons-to-fear/

Also, on May 13, 2010, Facebook announced some new updates to its Login notifications. The site allows you to approve your login information from all of the devices you use the website on. It will also now notify you whenever you are being logged in from an unapproved device. To access this new feature, follow the steps below:

• Login to Facebook.com.
• Go to Account Settings
• Click on Account Security
• Check the box that says "Yes" underneath the option to receive notifications of this type
• Provide a list of devices of which you wish to approve logging in to Facebookhttp://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=389991097130

On April 21, 2010, Facebook held a conference in San Fransisco called the f8 Developer Conference. In this conference, it was announced that Facebook was launching the Open Graph.http://www.examiner.com/x-38819-Dallas-Web-20-Examiner~y2010m4d21-Facebook-f8-Conference-Major-AnnouncementsThis allows users to integrate their likes and interests with a database of links to other places on the web, as well as apps.http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/facebook-announcement-8-reasons-to-fear/

With the release of the iPad came the Facebook iPad App. To read about it, click here.

Here are some interesting statistics and facts about the people who login to Facebook at home, school or work each and every day.

• The average user has at least 130 friends on the site. There are a number of available techniques of How to find friends on Facebook.
• More than 70% of the people who login are outside of the United States.
• Facebook is a common place for business. More than 1.5 million businesses are active users on the site.
• Every month more than 3,500,000 new events are posted.
• More than 100 million people login using their cell phone web browser.
• 200 mobile operators from 60 different countries work to get more people to use their cell phones to access the site.
• After logging in, the average user spend almost an hour, each day scouring the pages of Facebook.http://facts.randomhistory.com/interesting-facebook-facts.html

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6. How to Find Friends on Facebook
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