If you’re new to Facebook, there’s no need to be intimidated. It won’t take long for you to get acquainted with one of the most popular online social networks around.

What exactly is Facebook? Facebook is a free online social networking tool that allows you to connect and interact with friends, family, and people who share your interests. Anyone over age 13 can sign up with a valid email address. How Do I Get Started? Signing up is quick and easy too. Provide your name, working email address, birthday and password and you’re set. Once you are connected, you will have the option of creating a personal profile. You can say as much or as little about yourself as you want. In fact, with Facebook privacy settings, you can customize how much of your information is available to your extended network.

There are 625 million active internet usersworldwide. About 71% of them uses social media.* Social Media enable Companies and Brands to become more personal. Social Media are the best way to upload, create and share content. There are many possibilities to participate within social media (networks, sharing, casts, publishing, etc.)

Why Facebook fastest growing social network more than 800.000 users in Austria at the end of July 2009. 200.000 morethan at the beginning of June more than 250 million active users more than 120 million users log on to Facebookat least once each day average user has 120 friends more than 1 billion pieces of content shared each week the network with best reporting tools open for brands and company pages international possibility to embed own files and to offer interaction possibilities

Consumers are increasingly turning to the Internet for information about companies and products. According to Jupiter Research, 70% of viral marketers report increasing brand awareness as one of the most successful areas of their social marketing campaigns. With more than 70 million active users, Facebook is the Internet’s leading social utility. Facebook Pages give businesses the opportunity to build a consumer base, sell products, run promotions, schedule appointments or reservations, share information, and interact with customers.

Today, hundreds of thousands of leading brands, restaurants, hotels, writers, filmmakers, bands, and retailers are leveraging Facebook Pages to reach consumers. Businesses now have the ability to expand their revenue base and acquire new customers through free Facebook Pages. Pages enable customers to interact, learn, purchase, and spread the word about your business to their friends. The key is Facebook’s stable and trusted platform, which gives companies the ability to connect with consumers and participate in the conversations they’re already having with their friends about their favorite local spots, artists, films and brands. This regular interaction gives businesses the opportunity to connect with existing and new customers as effectively as a face-to-face meeting.

When you sign up as a user of Facebook, the default settings allow all other Facebook users to find you in searches. However, only those you have confirmed as friends or who share a network with you have access to your full profile. By default, your name and thumbnail profile picture can also be found on public search engines.

Facebook has selected these settings based on what it believes most users want, but you can always change them to restrict access to your information, as you see fit. Therefore, you can change the default settings to restrict access to your profile. Under the current setting, only your friends, their friends, and the people on your networks can see your profile. If you download Facebook Platform thirdparty applications into your profile, some of your information may be shared (see section on “Applications” below). It is important to explore these default settings, to adjust the privacy settings to those with which you are comfortable.

This Guide contains information about developing an application for Facebook, deploying the application on a Morph AppSpace, and adding the application to Facebook.

Facebook is a social networking Web site, which allows free access to users wanting to join one or more networking groups such as schools, companies, regions, or country of origin. Aside from being a social network, Facebook launched the Facebook platform that provides a framework for software developers to create applications that interact with core Facebook features.

A software developer who wants to deploy an application on the Facebook platform needs two things: an application and a host. Your application must run independently on a host. However, ordinary hosting schemes might not serve your application e!ectively. As your application requirements change, you have to think about load balancing, high availability, backup, security, redundancy, and a host of other related delivery and management things.

Mafia Wars by Zynga is an online game that can be played on different platforms like Yahoo Games, iPhone, MySpace and Facebook. Regardless of which online platform that you play Mafia Wars on, the game is still fun, exciting and thrilling. It allows you to be in the place of a Mafia boss and gather more popularity, respect and happiness from sucessfully playing the game.

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Get Turn-by-Turn Directions
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Know the Lane Before It’s Too Late
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