Posted on Wednesday, February 16 2011 @ 0:35 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Facebook’s basic idea is rather confusing for new social network users.
Is that a place to communicate with your friends and family, a place to
promote yourself and your company, a place to link to funny and
interesting websites that you’ve found on the internet, or a place to
“kill” some time by playing one of the available games with your
friends? In short, Facebook is all of this and more. With over half a
billion virtual “neighbours”, it’s clear that this is the biggest online
community. The interesting fact, however, that sets Facebook apart from
all other social networks, is the sheer number of available
applications. While the simple user interface has attracted users
worldwide, the simple API (Application Programming Interface) has
attracted independent programmers and development teams to create
Facebook applications. Owing to Facebook’s rapid expansion, this social
network now contains around 600,000 applications…
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