Facebook ... The largest and most successful social-networking site in the world

June 5, 2013 - PRLog -- What started out as a social-networking website founded by a computer geek in a university turned out to be the largest and most successful social-networking site in the world. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg when he was only 19 years old on February 4, 2004. About 1 and a half years later, it became Facebook.com after the address was purchased for 200,000$. It started out to be merely for students, only to be extended in September 2006 beyond educational institutions to anyone with a registered email address. Today, Facebook serves around 800 million active users, and receives more than 1 billion visitor each month.

Logging onto Facebook still is, until today, free of charge with Facebook making a profit through advertising revenue. It allows users to “add” new friends and “remove” unwanted ones, “communicate” with each other through Facebook chat and messages, “update” statuses, “upload”, “comment”, and “like” photos… Basically, it is one large network making the world look relatively small.  It is a great way to make time pass, meet new people, come across new civilizations, gather an acceptable amount of information, and who knows, maybe meet the love of your life.

However, there were a fine number of people who questioned the level of privacy and credibility of this world-wide network. After the allegations in 2004 that suggested that Mark, the founder, used private login data to break into Facebook member’s private email accounts and read their messages, one has to ask; to which level are we, Facebook users, safe from letting our secrets be exposed? And as the proverb says; one lie is enough to create contagious doubt about ever other truth expressed. Hence, a handful of questions arise to reveal the truth behind Facebook and its credibility.

One has to inquire the full truth of any system he’s logged into before giving it the ultimate trust. And a network like Facebook, although very entertaining and amusing, remains peculiar and seems to be, willingly, an invasion to people’s privacy. There’s no harm in logging in every once in a while, updating a status, uploading a photo or two, but we have to be careful what to say and who to talk to because, after all, we never know who’s watching!!