Introduction To Facebook

INTRODUCTION TO FACEBOOK By: Rick Mehendiratta, Zeshan

Jamal, Nick Dhillion

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Table of Contents Attribution ............................................................................................................................ 4

Our Contribution ................................................................................................................... 4

Wikipeda ............................................................................................................................... 5

Creative Commons ................................................................................................................ 5

Facebook ................................................................................................................................... 6

Facemash .............................................................................................................................. 6

The Facebook ........................................................................................................................ 7

Financials ............................................................................................................................... 8

Website ............................................................................................................................... 10

Interface evolution .............................................................................................................. 11

Facebook Lite ...................................................................................................................... 11

Features .............................................................................................................................. 11

Platform .............................................................................................................................. 13

iPhone App .......................................................................................................................... 15

Downtime and outages ....................................................................................................... 15

Reception ............................................................................................................................ 16

Use by courts ...................................................................................................................... 16

Criticism .............................................................................................................................. 17

Children under 13 ............................................................................................................... 17

First local cases ................................................................................................................... 17

Banned by governments ..................................................................................................... 17

Africa and Middle East ........................................................................................................ 18

Far east ................................................................................................................................ 18

Beacon ................................................................................................................................ 18

Privacy ................................................................................................................................. 19

Teen suicide and relationships ........................................................................................... 20

Pro-mafia groups' case ........................................................................................................ 20

Phishing ............................................................................................................................... 20

Holocaust denial groups ..................................................................................................... 20

Lamebook............................................................................................................................ 21



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Litigation ............................................................................................................................. 21

ConnectU ........................................................................................................................ 21

StudiVZ ................................................................................................................................ 21

Grant Raphael ..................................................................................................................... 22

Adam Guerbuez .................................................................................................................. 23

Alessandro Del Piero ........................................................................................................... 23

Jack Thompson .................................................................................................................... 23



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Wikipeda

Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project based mostly on

anonymous contributions. The name “Wikipedia” is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type

of collaborative Web site) and encyclopedia. Wikipedia’s articles provide links to guide the

user to related pages with additional information.

Wikipedia is written collaboratively by an international (and mostly anonymous) group of

volunteers. Anyone with internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles.

There are no requirements to provide one’s real name when contributing; rather, each

writer’s privacy is protected unless they choose to reveal their identity themselves. Since its

creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites,

attracting around 65 million visitors monthly as of 2009. There are more than 75,000 active

contributors working on more than 14,000,000 articles in more than 260 languages. As of

today, there are 3,062,069 articles in English. Every day, hundreds of thousands of visitors

from around the world collectively make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of

new articles to augment the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia. (See also:

Wikipedia:Statistics.)

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Facebook

Facebook is a global social networking website that is operated and privately owned by

Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal

profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized

by city, workplace, school, and region. The website's name stems from the colloquial name

of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the

intention of helping students get to know each other better.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer

science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a

student at Harvard University.[5] The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard

students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and

Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high

school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more

than 300 million active users worldwide.[6]

Facebook has met with some controversy. It has been blocked intermittently in several

countries including Syria,[7] China[8] and Iran,[9] although Iran later unblocked Facebook in

2009. It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from

wasting time using the service.[10] Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been

compromised several times. Facebook is also facing several lawsuits from a number of

Zuckerberg's former classmates, who claim that Facebook had stolen their source code and

other intellectual property.

A January 2009 Compete.com study has ranked Facebook as the most used social network

by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.[11]

Facemash The advent of Facebook came about as a spin-off of a Harvard University version of Hot or

Not called Facemash.[12] Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore,

concocted Facemash on October 28, 2003. That night, Zuckerberg was blogging about a girl

who had dumped him and trying to think of something to do to get her off his

mind:[13][14][15]



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I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not even 10 p.m. and it's a Tuesday

night? What? The Kirkland [dorm] facebook is open on my desktop and some of these

people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next

to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.

—9:48 pm

Yea, it's on. I'm not exactly sure how the farm animals are going to fit into this whole thing

(you can't really ever be sure with farm animals . . .), but I like the idea of comparing two

people together.

—11:09 pm

Let the hacking begin.

—12:58 am

According to The Harvard Crimson, Facemash "used photos compiled from the online

facebooks of nine Houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to

choose the 'hotter' person." To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas

of Harvard's computer network and copied the houses' private dormitory ID images.

"Perhaps Harvard will squelch it for legal reasons without realizing its value as a venture that

could possibly be expanded to other schools (maybe even ones with good-looking people ...

)," Zuckerberg wrote in his personal blog. "But one thing is certain, and it’s that I’m a jerk for

making this site. Oh well. Someone had to do it eventually ... "[16] The site was quickly

forwarded to several campus group list-servers but was shut down a few days later by the

Harvard administration. Zuckerberg was charged by the administration with breach of

security, violating copyrights and violating individual privacy and faced expulsion, but

ultimately the charges were dropped.[17]

The Facebook

The Facebook on February 12, 2004The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code

for a new website in January 2004. He was inspired, he said, by an editorial in The Harvard

Crimson about the Facemash incident. "It is clear that the technology needed to create a

centralized Website is readily available," the paper observed. "The benefits are many."[13]

On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched The Facebook, originally located at

thefacebook.com.*18+ “Everyone’s been talking a lot about a universal face book within

Harvard,” Zuckerberg told The Harvard Crimson. “I think it’s kind of silly that it would take

the University a couple of years to get around to it. I can do it better than they can, and I can



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do it in a week.”*19+ "When Mark finished the site, he told a couple of friends. And then one

of them suggested putting it on the Kirkland House online mailing list, which was, like, three

hundred people," according to roommate Dustin Moskovitz. "And, once they did that,

several dozen people joined, and then they were telling people at the other houses. By the

end of the night, we were, like, actively watching the registration process. Within twenty-

four hours, we had somewhere between twelve hundred and fifteen hundred

registrants."[20]

Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first

month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the

service.[21] Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew

McCollum (graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the

website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.[22] This

expansion continued when it opened to all Ivy League and Boston area schools, and

gradually most universities in Canada and the United States.[23] Facebook incorporated in

the summer of 2004 and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising

Zuckerberg, became the company's president.[24] In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of

operations to Palo Alto, California.[22] The company dropped The from its name after

purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.[25]

Facebook launched a high school version in September 2005, which Zuckerberg called the

next logical step.[26] At that time, high school networks required an invitation to join.[27]

Facebook later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several companies,

including Apple Inc. and Microsoft.[28] Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006

to everyone of ages 13 and older with a valid e-mail address.[29][30] In October 2008,

Facebook announced that it was to set up its international headquarters in Dublin,

Ireland.[31]

Financials

Entrance to Facebook's current headquarters in the Stanford Research Park, Palo Alto,

California

Another view of Facebook's current headquartersFacebook received its first investment of

US$500,000 in June 2004 from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.[32] This was followed a year

later by $12.7 million in venture capital from Accel Partners, and then $27.5 million more



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from Greylock Partners.[32][33] A leaked cash flow statement showed that during the 2005

fiscal year, Facebook had a net loss of $3.63 million.[34]

With the sale of social networking website MySpace to News Corp on July 19, 2005, rumors

surfaced about the possible sale of Facebook to a larger media company.[35] Zuckerberg

had already said he did not want to sell the company, and denied rumors to the

contrary.[36] On March 28, 2006, BusinessWeek reported that a potential acquisition of

Facebook was under negotiation. Facebook reportedly declined an offer of $750 million

from an unknown bidder, and it was rumored the asking price rose as high as $2 billion.[37]

In September 2006, serious talks between Facebook and Yahoo! took place concerning

acquisition of Facebook, with prices reaching as high as $1 billion.[38] Thiel, by then a board

member of Facebook, indicated that Facebook's internal valuation was around $8 billion

based on their projected revenues of $1 billion by 2015, comparable to Viacom's MTV

brand, a company with a shared target demographic audience.[39]

On July 17, 2007, Zuckerberg said that selling Facebook was unlikely because he wanted to

keep it independent, saying "We're not really looking to sell the company... We're not

looking to IPO anytime soon. It's just not the core focus of the company."[40]

In September 2007, Microsoft approached Facebook, proposing an investment in return for

a 5% stake in the company, offering an estimated $300–500 million.[41] That month, other

companies, including Google, expressed interest in buying a portion of Facebook.[42]

On October 24, 2007 Microsoft announced that it had purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook

for $240 million, giving Facebook a total implied value of around $15 billion.[43] However,

Microsoft bought preferred stock that carried special rights, such as "liquidation

preferences" that meant Microsoft would get paid before common stockholders if the

company is sold. Microsoft's purchase also included rights to place international ads on

Facebook.[44]

In November 2007, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing invested $60 million in Facebook.[45]



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In August 2008, BusinessWeek reported that private sales by employees, as well as

purchases by venture capital firms, had and were being done at share prices that put the

company's total valuation at between $3.75 billion and $5 billion.[44]

In October 2008, Zuckerberg said "I don't think social networks can be monetized in the

same way that search did... In three years from now we have to figure out what the

optimum model is. But that is not our primary focus today."[46]

In August 2009 Facebook acquired social media real-time news aggregator FriendFeed,[47] a

startup created by the former Google employee and Gmail's first engineer Paul Buchheit

who, while at Google, coined the phrase "Don't be evil".[48][49][50]

In September 2009, Facebook claimed that it had turned cash flow positive for the first

time.[51]

Website

Facebook's homepage features a login form on the top right for existing users and a

registration form directly underneath for new visitors.Users can join and create up to 200

groups according to their interests or areas of expertise.[52] It will appear in the search

results of Facebook if the group is on public.[53] Users can choose fan pages according to

their interests to connect and interact with other strangers.[54] Users can set their profiles

on private so as to prevent acquaintances from contacting them. Users can also set their

profiles on public.[55] This allows close friends to send messages and add the user as a

friend. It lets users update their personal profiles to notify their close friends about

themselves. They can also join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to

connect and interact with their close friends.[56] Public profiles also allow any stranger or

acquaintance to contact the user which results in lack of privacy. Public profiles can be

blocked by any user but private profiles cannot.



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The website is free to users and generates revenue from advertising including banner

ads.[57] Users can create profiles including photos and lists of personal interests, exchange

private or public messages, and join groups of friends.[58] By default, the viewing of

detailed profile data is restricted to users from the same network and "reasonable

community limitations".[59]

Microsoft is Facebook's exclusive partner for serving banner advertising,[60] and as such

Facebook only serves advertisements that exist in Microsoft's advertisement inventory.

According to comScore, an internet marketing research company, Facebook collects as

much data from its visitors as Google and Microsoft, but considerably less than Yahoo!.[61]

Interface evolution (The) Facebook profile circa 2004–2005.

Facebook profile circa 2006.

Facebook profile circa 2007.

Facebook Lite circa 2009.

Facebook Lite In August 2009, Facebook announced the rollout of a "lite" version of the site, optimized for

users on slower or intermittent internet connections. Facebook Lite offered fewer services,

excluded most third-party applications and required less bandwidth.[62] A beta version of

the slimmed-down interface was released first to invited testers,[63] before a broader

rollout across users in the USA, Canada, and India.[62]

Features Main article: Facebook features

The media often compare Facebook to MySpace, but one significant difference between the

two websites is the level of customization.[64] MySpace allows users to decorate their

profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), while Facebook only allows plain

text.[65]



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Facebook has a number of features with which users may interact. They include the Wall, a

space on every user's profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to

see,[66] Pokes, which allows users to send a virtual "poke" to each other (a notification then

tells a user that they have been poked),[67] Photos, where users can upload albums and

photos,[68] and Status, which allows users to inform their friends of their whereabouts and

actions.[69] A user's Wall is visible to anyone who is able to see that user's profile,

depending on privacy settings. In July 2007, Facebook began allowing users to post

attachments to the Wall, whereas the Wall was previously limited to textual content

only.[66]

Over time, Facebook has added several new features to its website. On September 6, 2006,

a News Feed was announced, which appears on every user's homepage and highlights

information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays of the user's

friends.[70] Initially, the News Feed caused dissatisfaction among Facebook users; some

complained it was too cluttered and full of undesired information, while others were

concerned it made it too easy for other people to track down individual activities (such as

changes in relationship status, events, and conversations with other users).[71] In response

to this dissatisfaction, Zuckerberg issued an apology for the site's failure to include

appropriate customizable privacy features. Since then, users have been able to control what

types of information are shared automatically with friends. Users are now able to prevent

friends from seeing updates about certain types of activities, including profile changes, Wall

posts, and newly added friends.[72]

One of the most popular applications on Facebook is the Photos application, where users

can upload albums and photos.[73] Facebook allows users to upload an unlimited number of

photos, compared with other image hosting services such as Photobucket and Flickr, which

apply limits to the number of photos that a user is allowed to upload. In the past, all users

were limited to 60 photos per album. However, some users report that they are able to

create albums with a new limit of 200 photos. It remains unclear why some members have a

200-photo limit while others do not.[74][75][76] Privacy settings can be set for individual

albums, limiting the groups of users that can see an album. For example, the privacy of an

album can be set so that only the user's friends can see the album, while the privacy of

another album can be set so that all Facebook users can see it. Another feature of the

Photos applications is the ability to "tag", or label users in a photo. For instance, if a photo

contains a user's friend, then the user can tag the friend in the photo. This sends a



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notification to the friend that they have been tagged, and provides them a link to see the

photo.[77]

Facebook Notes was introduced on August 22, 2006, a blogging feature that allowed tags

and embeddable images. Users were later able to import blogs from Xanga, LiveJournal,

Blogger, and other blogging services.[29] During the week of April 7, 2008, Facebook

released a Comet-based[78] instant messaging application called "Chat" to several

networks,[79] which allows users to communicate with friends and is similar in functionality

to desktop-based instant messengers.

Facebook launched Gifts on February 8, 2007, which allows users to send virtual gifts to

their friends that appear on the recipient's profile. Gifts cost $1.00 each to purchase, and a

personalized message can be attached to each gift.[80][81] On May 14, 2007, Facebook

launched Marketplace, which lets users post free classified ads.[82] Marketplace has been

compared to Craigslist by CNET, which points out that the major difference between the two

is that listings posted by a user on Marketplace are only seen by users that are in the same

network as that user, whereas listings posted on Craigslist can be seen by anyone.[83]

On July 20, 2008, Facebook introduced "Facebook Beta", a significant redesign of its user

interface on selected networks. The Mini-Feed and Wall were consolidated, profiles were

separated into tabbed sections, and an effort was made to create a "cleaner" look.[84] After

initially giving users a choice to switch, Facebook began migrating all users to the new

version beginning September, 2008.[85]

On December 11, 2008, it was announced that Facebook is testing out a new simpler signup

process.[86] On June 13, 2009, Facebook introduced a 'usernames' feature, whereby pages

can be linked with simpler URLs such as http://www.facebook.com/facebook, as opposed to

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=20531316728.[87]

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Facebook mobile graphical user interface

Facebook's former headquarters in downtown Palo Alto, CaliforniaFacebook launched the

Facebook Platform on May 24, 2007, providing a framework for software developers to

create applications that interact with core Facebook features.[88][89] A markup language

called Facebook Markup Language was introduced simultaneously; it is used to customize

the "look and feel" of applications that developers create. Using the Platform, Facebook

launched several new applications,[88][89] including Gifts, allowing users to send virtual

gifts to each other, Marketplace, allowing users to post free classified ads, Events, giving

users a method of informing their friends about upcoming events, and Video, letting users

share homemade videos with one another.[90][91]

Applications that have been created on the Platform include chess and Scrabble, which both

allow users to play games with their friends.[92][93] These games are asynchronous,

meaning that a user's moves are saved on the website, allowing the next move to be made

at any time rather than immediately after the previous move.[94]

By November 3, 2007, seven thousand applications had been developed on the Facebook

Platform, with another hundred created every day.[95] By the second annual f8 developers

conference on July 23, 2008, the number of applications had grown to 33,000,[96] and the

number of registered developers had exceeded 400,000.[97]

Within a few months of launching the Facebook Platform, issues arose regarding

"application spam", which involves Facebook applications "spamming" users to request it be

installed.[98] Application spam has been considered one of the possible causes to the drop

in visitors to Facebook starting from the beginning of 2008, when its growth had fallen from

December 2007 to January 2008, its first drop since its launch in 2004.

Facebook Connect was announced for the Xbox 360 and Nintendo DSi on June 1 at E3.[99]



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iPhone App The Facebook iPhone website was launched August 2007 and as of July 2008 over 1.5 million

people use it regularly.[100] A free application for the iPhone and iPod Touch named

"Facebook for iPhone" was launched July 2008.[100] Version 2.0 of this app was released in

September 2008 and featured improved services such as being able to respond to friend

requests and notifications.[101] Version 3.0 was released in August 2009 and added

features such as events, and uploading video with a iPhone 3GS.[102]

Facebook on other devices

Many new smartphones offer access to the Facebook services either through their web-

browsers or applications. Nokia offers a facebook app on its Ovi Store for Nokia S60 devices

such as the N97 and contains most of the functionality of the full website.[103]

Google's Android OS does not as yet have an official Facebook application due to apparent

disputes between the two companies.[104] However, "wrapper" applications such as fBook

were introduced, although these ran as an enhanced version of the mobile website.[105]

Eventually, some third party applications such as Bloo and Blabber were created. These

supported Facebook natively using the Facebook API.[106]

RIM also offer a Facebook application for their BlackBerry device range. It offers a range of

functions, including an ability to integrate Facebook events into the BlackBerry calendar,

and using Facebook profile pictures for Caller ID.[107]

Downtime and outages Facebook has had a number of outages and downtime large enough to draw some media

attention. A 2007 outage resulted in a security hole that enabled some users to read other

users' personal mail.[108] In 2008, the site was inaccessible for about a day, from many

locations in many countries.[109] In spite of these occurrences, a report issued by Pingdom

found that Facebook had less downtime in 2008 than most social networking websites.[110]

On September 16, 2009, Facebook started having major problems with loading when people

signed in. On September 18, 2009, Facebook went down for the second time in 2009, the

first time being when a group of hackers were deliberately trying to drown out a political

speaker who had social networking problems from continuously speaking against the Iranian

election results.[citation needed] In October 2009, an unspecified number of Facebook

users were unable to access their accounts for over three weeks.[111][112][113][114][115]



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Reception According to comScore, Facebook is the leading social networking site based on monthly

unique visitors, having overtaken main competitor MySpace in April 2008.[116] ComScore

reports that Facebook attracted 132.1 million unique visitors in June 2008, compared to

MySpace, which attracted 117.6 million.[117]

According to Alexa, the website's ranking among all websites increased from 60th to 7th in

terms of worldwide traffic, from September 2006 to September 2007, and is currently

2nd.[118] Quantcast ranks the website 4th in the U.S. in terms of traffic,[119] and

Compete.com ranks it 2nd in the U.S.[120] The website is the most popular for uploading

photos, with 14 million uploaded daily.[121]

Facebook is the most popular social networking site in several English-speaking countries,

including Canada[122] the United Kingdom,[123] and the United

States.[124][125][126][127] The website has won awards such as placement into the "Top

100 Classic Websites" by PC Magazine in 2007,[128] and winning the "People's Voice Award"

from the Webby Awards in 2008.[129] In a 2006 study conducted by Student Monitor, a

New Jersey-based company specializing in research concerning the college student market,

Facebook was named the second most popular thing among undergraduates, tied with beer

and only ranked lower than the iPod.[130]

By 2005, the use of Facebook had already become so ubiquitous that the generic verb

"facebooking" had come into use to describe the process of browsing others' profiles or

updating one's own.[131]

Use by courts In December 2008, the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory ruled that

Facebook is a valid protocol to serve court notices to defendants. It is believed to be the

world's first legal judgement that defines a summons posted on Facebook as legally

binding.[132]

In March 2009, the New Zealand High Court associate justice David Glendall allowed for the

serving of legal papers on Craig Axe by the company Axe Market Garden via Facebook.[133]



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Criticism Main article: Criticism of Facebook

See also: Use of social network websites in investigations

Facebook has met with some controversy over the past few years.

Children under 13 Facebook does not actively enforce the age limit resulting in children under the age of 13 to

use it.[134] It has raised concerns in regard to the safety of children.[135]

First local cases In October 2005, the University of New Mexico blocked access to Facebook from its campus

computers and networks.[136] It cited a violation of the university's Acceptable Use Policy

for abusing computer resources as the reason, stating the website forces use of the

university's credentials for activity not related to the university. The school later unblocked

Facebook after the website rectified the situation by displaying a notice on the login page

stating the credentials used on the website are separate from the ones used for their school

accounts.[137] The Ontario government also blocked access to Facebook for its employees

in May 2007, stating the website was "not directly related to the workplace".[138]

On January 1, 2008, a memorial group on Facebook posted the identity of murdered

Toronto teenager Stefanie Rengel, whose family had not yet given the Toronto Police

Service their consent to release her name to the media, as well as the identities of her

accused killers (Melissa Todorovic[139] and D.B.) — despite the fact that under Canada's

Youth Criminal Justice Act, it is illegal to publish the name of an underage criminal.[140]

While police and Facebook staff attempted to comply with the privacy regulations by

deleting posts mentioning her name, they noted it was difficult to effectively police

individual users who repeatedly republished the deleted information.[141]

Banned by governments Due to the open nature of Facebook, several countries have banned access to it including

Syria,[142] China[8] and Iran.[143]



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Africa and Middle East The Syrian government cited the ban was on the premise that the website promoted attacks

on authorities.[142][144] The government also feared Israeli infiltration of Syrian social

networks on Facebook.[142] Facebook was also used by Syrian citizens to criticize the

government, and public criticism of the Syrian government is punishable by

imprisonment.[142]

On February 5, 2008, Fouad Mourtada, a citizen of Morocco, was arrested for the alleged

creation of a faked Facebook profile of Prince Moulay Rachid of

Morocco.[145][146][147][148][149][150][151]

In Iran, the website was banned because of fears that opposition movements were being

organized on the website; although access has since been reinstated.[143]

Far east In China, Facebook was blocked following the July 2009 Ürümqi riots.[8] Huanqi.com had

asserted that "Xinjiang Independence" activists were using Facebook as part of their

communications network.[152]

Beacon Main article: Facebook Beacon

Facebook announced Facebook Beacon on November 7, 2007, a marketing initiative that

allows websites to publish a user's activities to their Facebook profile as "Social Ads" and

promote products.[153] When launching Beacon, Facebook stated "no personally

identifiable information is shared with an advertiser in creating a Social Ad", and that

"Facebook users will only see Social Ads to the extent their friends are sharing information

with them."[154] After Facebook was criticized for collecting more user information for

advertisers than was previously stated, Zuckerberg publicly apologized on December 5, 2007

for the way Facebook launched Beacon, saying, "The problem with our initial approach of

making it an opt-out system instead of opt-in was that if someone forgot to decline to share

something, Beacon still went ahead and shared it with their friends."[155][156]



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Privacy Several concerns have emerged regarding the use of Facebook as a means of surveillance

and data mining.[157] Two MIT students were able to download over 70,000 Facebook

profiles from four schools (MIT, New York University, the University of Oklahoma, and

Harvard University) using an automated shell script, as part of a research project on

Facebook privacy published on December 14, 2005.[158] The possibility of data mining

remains open, as evidenced in May 2008, when the BBC technology program "Click"

demonstrated that personal details of Facebook users and their friends could be stolen by

submitting malicious applications.[159]

Privacy proponents have criticized the site's privacy agreement, which states: "We may use

information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to

newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, Facebook

Platform developers and other users of Facebook, to supplement your profile."[160]

Another clause that received criticism concerned Facebook's right to sell a user's data to

private companies, stating: "We may share your information with third parties, including

responsible companies with which we have a relationship."[161] This concern was

addressed by Facebook spokesman Chris Hughes who said, "Simply put, we have never

provided our users' information to third party companies, nor do we intend to."[162]

Concerns have also been raised regarding the difficulty of deleting user accounts. Previously,

Facebook only allowed users to "deactivate" their accounts so that their profile was no

longer visible. However, any information the user had entered into the website and on their

profile remained on the website's servers. This outraged many users who wished to remove

their accounts permanently, citing reasons such as the inability to erase "embarrassing or

overly-personal online profiles from their student days as they entered the job market, for

fear employers would locate the profiles".[163] Facebook changed its account deletion

policies on February 29, 2008, allowing users to contact the website to request that their

accounts be permanently deleted.[164] On May 7, 2009 it was revealed by the New York

Times that a bug allowed personal e-mail addresses of Facebook users to be easily

accessible. The bug was fixed "within hours of it being reported to us."[165]

In July 2009 it came to light that there are concerns by the Canadian Privacy Commission

that Facebook is breaching several Canadian privacy laws by not deleting a user's

information when their account is deactivated and by giving "confusing or incomplete"

information to subscribers. Facebook's Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly was quoted as saying



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that "[Facebook] was working with the commission to resolve the issues". The CPC have

given Facebook 30 days before they make a further review and recommendations. If

Facebook do not comply with the Canadian statutes, it is possible that the issue could be

taken to the federal courts.[166]

Teen suicide and relationships The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England Vincent Nichols placed a warning that

Facebook and other social networking sites may lead teens to commit suicide. Nichols

warned that social networking sites can damage intimate relationships and leave teenagers

without strong social ties.[167]

Pro-mafia groups' case In Italy, the discovery of pro-mafia groups[168] caused an alert in the

country[169][170][171] and brought the government, after a short debate,[172] to rapidly

issue a law which will force ISPs to deny access to entire sites in case of refused removal of

illegal contents; the removal can be requested by a prosecutor in any case there is a

suspicion that criminal speech (apology or incitement to crime) is published on a website.

The amendment was passed by the Senate on February 5, 2008, and now needs to be

passed unchanged[173] by the Chamber of Deputies to become immediately effective.

Facebook and other websites, Google included,[174] criticized the amendment emphasizing

the eventual effects on the freedom of speech of those users who do not violate any law.

Phishing In May 2009, Facebook users all over the world suffered a massive phishing campaign,

launched by Russian hackers from servers in Latvia and China, that led to thousands of

accounts being hijacked.[175] Facebook was criticized for its late reaction to this issue and

the fact that initially it merely tried to block the attack, rather than notifying users of the

situation.

Holocaust denial groups JIDF, an activist group fighting Antisemitism, has criticized Facebook for condoning and

hosting Holocaust denial groups on its network, which are in violation of Facebook TOS.



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David Appletree, the founder of JIDF states, “Holocaust denial is hate speech and

Antisemitism.”*176+*177+*178+

Prominent technology bloggers are also joining in to criticize Facebook. Brian Cuban, the

brother of Mark Cuban, the owner of Dallas Mavericks, in his blog post says, “Holocaust

denial is repulsive and ignorant”*179+ and calling Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove

the groups.[180] Techcrunch CEO Michael Arrington says that Facebook’s stubbornness on

not removing the groups is wrong and offensive.[181]

Lamebook In April 2009, two Austin graphic designers created Lamebook which is a blog where

Facebook users can submit funny entries from the social networking site. The site averages

about a million hits a day.[citation needed]

Litigation

ConnectU

Main article: Criticism of Facebook#Connectu.com lawsuit

In 2004 ConnectU, a company founded by classmates of Zuckerberg, filed a lawsuit against

Facebook, claiming that Zuckerberg had broken an oral contract for them to build the

Facebook site, copied their idea,[182] and used source code that belonged to

them.[183][184][185][186] The parties reached a confidential settlement agreement in

February 2008.[187] In 2008 they attempted unsuccessfully to rescind the settlement,

claiming that Facebook had understated its valuation in connection with its settlement

negotiations.[188][189][190][191][192] Despite the confidentiality agreement, a law firm

that represented ConnectU inadvertently disclosed the $65 million settlement amount.[193]

StudiVZ On 18 July 2008, Facebook sued StudiVZ in a California federal court, alleging that StudiVZ

copied its look, feel, features and services. StudiVZ denied the claims, and asked for

declaratory judgment at the District Court in Stuttgart, Germany.[194] On 10 September

2009, a settlement was reached resulting in StuioVZ paying an undisclosed sum to Facebook

and both companies continuing business as usual.[195]



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On July 24, 2008 the High Court in London ordered Grant Raphael to pay GBP £22,000

(about USD $43,700 at the then-current exchange rate) for breach of privacy and libel.

Raphael had posted a fake Facebook page purporting to be that of a former schoolfriend

and business colleague, Mathew Firsht, with whom Raphael had fallen out in 2000. The fake

page claimed that Firsht was homosexual and untrustworthy. The case is believed to be the

first successful invasion of privacy and defamation verdict against someone over an entry on

a social networking site.[196][197][198][199][200][201]

Adam Guerbuez Facebook won a lawsuit against Canadian Adam Guerbuez, of Montreal, worth $873 million.

Guerbuez had spammed the website with various advertisements including penis

enhancements and marijuana. Guerbuez founded Atlantis Blue Capital.[202]

Alessandro Del Piero On February 9, 2009 it was reported that Juventus football (soccer) player Alessandro Del

Piero was suing Facebook over a fake profile bearing his name that links to Nazi propaganda

sites. The Italian footballer was said to be aggrieved that the bogus account, which carries

his picture, implies neo-Nazi sympathies. Del Piero stated he's never had a Facebook

profile.[203]

Jack Thompson See also: Jack Thompson (activist)#Facebook_lawsuit

On the 29th of September 2009, Jack Thompson filed a law suit for $40 million against

Facebook at U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He said that the social

networking site had harmed him by not removing angry postings made by Facebook users.

He said that several groups caused him great harm and distress.[204]



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Adam Guerbuez · 23

Alessandro Del Piero · 23

F

Facebook · 6

Facebook is a global social

networking website that is

operated and privately

owned by Facebook · 6

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Grant Raphael · 23

I

In November 2007, Hong Kong

billionaire Li Ka-shing

invested $60 million in

Facebook · 10

J

Jack Thompson · 23

M

Membership · 8

T

The media often compare

Facebook to MySpace, but

one significant difference

between the two websites

is the level of

customization.[64]

MySpace allows users to

decorate their profiles using

HTML and Cascading Style

Sheets (CSS), while

Facebook only allows plain

text. · 12

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Wikipeda · 5



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