Facebook

History of Facebook Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg. A student at

Harvard University. It was launched on February 4th 2004. It was originally intended for Harvard university students

to easily network and communicate with one another. It was then expanded to other universities across the Boston area.

Since 2006 it has been available to all people with an email address.

As of October 2007 Facebook grew to over 42 million active members throughout the world. Projections point to over 60 million users by the end of this year alone.

In one year from September 2006 to September 2007 Facebook’s ranking among most visited websites jumped from 60th to 7th place.

Purpose of this Site

It was originally intended for Harvard university students to easily network and communicate with one another. It was then expanded to other universities across the Boston area. And eventually the world

Policy

You should have control over your personal information

You should have access to information others want to share

Privacy Issues---Potential Threats

Password Interceptions Views of your behavior Published Information-phone numbers,

screen names Sexual Predators, Stalker Sites Impersonation Facebook reserves right to share your

information with 3rd party. However spokesperson disagrees.

Vulnerable to hacking.

How This Affects You

Bosses, Teachers, Campus Police Seeing behavior, dates and places of

parties, pictures of criminal actions

Examples of Affects

Cases of People Being Caught on Facebook

Cases of Stalking

Facebook’s Response to these threats Improved privacy settings You can choose what you want people

to see Part of the EU safe harbor participation

as set forth by united states department of commerce.