Facebook.com is a social networking website for users all around the world. It started in the year 2004 and is owned by Facebook.Inc. According to a recent survey conducted in June this year it has eight hundred million users. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and in 2009 it was ranked the most used social networking site world over. Users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information, and other personal information. They interact with each other and many have found their long lost friends via this site too. The site also provides private messaging and chat features apart from public messaging on walls.
You have the option of choosing your own privacy settings such as you can decide who can view your profile, your wall, your messages and even your information. The site is free for its users but generates revenue from advertising from banner ads. Users can create and join groups and ‘like’ pages.