Facebook Features
Event
There is
events feature that is used to inform friends about upcoming events such as
social gatherings, birthday, party, etc. When the host sends invitations to the
Events, invited friends and guests will receive information about Events
including event type, location, date and time, and a list of all of people who
were invited by the host. Also, user can always change the setting to be public
or private; private events will be hidden from the people who have not been
invited.
Groups
Another
feature that Facebook provides is Groups. Any users can create Facebook Groups
and is group page that allows the member of the group to post any contents. It
is usually used for group purposes enabling members to communicate, share
information, discuss, and etc. There is also privacy settings and user can
always make the group private, hidden from the public.
Messages and inbox
Messages
and inbox is the most basic, yet crucial feature in Facebook. One can send a
message to friends through Facebook inbox. User can also create a group message
allowing members of the group to chat more conveniently. Moreover, another
function of the message is that one can delete the message but it will still
exist in the other person’s inbox. It is the simplest and most important
feature in communicating with friends in Facebook.
Like
Although it
is very simple feature, I personally think Like is Facebook’s trade mark. There
is “like” button in the bottom of every post for anybody to click, and it also
shows the total number of like clicked for a post. The like button also
functions as a tracking tool to find people’s preferences among the contents
and is many times used for advertising related markets.
Timeline
Timeline is
one of the most major features in Facebook. The new Timeline feature shows
user’s all related content. Every uploaded content will be shown in the order
of uploaded time - the most recent content on the top. On the other hand, the
visibility of the user’s content can be managed from privacy settings so that
the content is not shown on a Timeline or the user can even change the settings
assigned to each individual friend.
This is an assignment from the Immersive Education course that I am taking at Boston College. The course is called Collaborative Computing. For details, visit the immersive BC portal at http://ImmersiveEducation.org/@/bc
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