Monday, 17 December 2007

Facebook Features (2/2)


  • Inbox
Facebook gives you the opportunity to send messages to your friends or people from the network. These messages are private and you receive it in the Inbox page.
  • Photos
The photos section is a little bit more complex. Indeed you have two types of page. When you arrive in the photo section (by clicking "Photos" in the left blue column) you have the list of the last update album from your friends. You have consequently the possibility to view the content of this album and add comments for each of the pictures in there. You also have the possibility to create a new album from this page, this album will be yours and you will be able to upload up to 60 pictures in it. Finally you also have the possibility to go to "My photos". This page is the list of all the album you create.
  • Groups
There is many groups existing on Facebook. They are classified per field. You can find group dealing about cinema, photography, politics, travelling, companies, etc... Whatever can link people together (it don't need to be serious and most of the time it isn't) When you are in a group you have a discussion board, you can upload pictures to the groups, you have a public wall, etc...
  • Events
The facebook users have the possibility to create events and invite people to these events. For example when you want to do a party, let's say an house warming party, you just create an even and invite all the people from your list that you want to attend to. You add as much details you want to this events, such as the address, the time, why, how, ... then your contact has the possibility to accept or not the invitation, and you can see the list of the person attending to the event. You also have the possibility to add pictures and videos to the event, and people can write on the public wall.
  • Applications
Each user of Facebook has the possibility to add application to it profile. An application is a little program that uses the facebook API.
  • Privacy
Users can set their privacy: such as who can access my photos? who can see my profile? There are so many private information in a Facebook profile that this needs to be really carefully set.

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