References: 

ü  http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83

ü  Kirkpatrick, David (October 14, 2010). "The Social Network: a misleading view of Facebook's birth". The Telegraph

ü  Kirkpatrick, David (October 14, 2010). "The Social Network: a misleading view of Facebook's birth". The Telegraph

ü  http://billpetro.com/history-of-facebook

ü  http://billpetro.com/history-of-facebook   

ü  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jul/25/media.newmedia

ü  http://www.penn-olson.com/2010/04/22/facebook-crushes-its-competitors/#

ü  http://www.allfacebook.com/california-quake-highlights-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-facebooks-real-time-search-2010-01

ü  http://chicagolibrarian.com/node/331

http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

Conclusion:

We had looked at many aspect of Facebook, we were focus on history of Facebook (whose created and developed), we saw Facebook is now the fastest growing social network than other sites, detailed of how Strengths, weaknesses, Competitors and Threats are affected on the goal of Facebook. We noted that, there are some people liked and disliked Facebook with them reasons. In our opinion, the people who are responsible on the Facebook site, should develop this site and make it more privacy and secure because a lot of people are complaining from this thing. It is important that Facebook department take steps to solve that issue Facebook is preserved for future generations.

Any other issues you think are interesting / important

 That the site was founded in order to forget the girl who thinks about her .
 Make problem between company and between people.

 People can steal anything from Face book, such as emails and no copyright.

 We can't trust some information in it.

 Some people put some information and picture that affect in bad way in our religion.

What you like/dislike about the facebook

’Facebook’ Why is it so hot?
A lot of things we like in Facebook... On the other hand there are things we don’t like …
We started on what you like about Facebook?
• Connection social.
- The ability to connect with new friends, old friends, the family.
• Includes high-technology and fast.
-  We can communicate faster and more comfortable in terms of technique used.
• Communicate more widely.
- ¬We can communicate widely through Facebook to all the details and meanings of communication with all people wherever they are.
•  Help us in our field.
- It helps in our work or your intention whatever is your field.
•  Share our pictures, our videos, and play games. 
- See what recent things are.

On other hand, we have points about what you don’t like about the Facebook?
• No privacy
- When the details of the one person everyone can be seen.
- Everyone can see our pictures.
•  Obscene communications.
- Some people use it in the bad ways.
•  Add some people do not know.
- Can steal what we share with my friends.
- We could get added by a spam.
•  Addiction for some people.
-  Some people say that Facebook is the appropriate site to spend their time in it. But everything has its damages and benefits, spend much time on Facebook in terms of beneficial or harmful uses. It is a disease and addiction.
• Some uses Facebook to inconvenience people. 
- There are people who use Facebook to inconvenience people, like:
1) Foolish behavior.
2) Add disturbing.
3) Send some details and information, unwanted.

 Facebook crushes its Competitors

Facebook is huge and also crushing its competitors as it emerges to be the world's favorite online social networking site.
The chart below shows a huge disparity between Facebook and other social networking sites in terms of unique visits. Facebook is the only obvious site that is experiencing an upward trending growth while others clustered at the bottom of the chart. LinkedIn and Twitter also appear to be growing at a steady pace but definitely in a different league from Facebook.
Regardless, both Twitter and LinkedIn serve different needs and aren’t much of threats to Facebook (yet).Looking at this direction, the chart has taught us a simple business lesson:" To win, we have to differentiate from our competitors'. Facebook is a successful product differentiation example.

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strengths:  Characteristics of the business or team that give it an advantage over others in the industry.
• Weaknesses:  Are characteristics that place the firm at a disadvantage relative to others.
Facebook has a lot of strengths and weaknesses that effect on the object of this website . . .
o Strengths :
1. A way to communicate with people around the world in a much FASTER way.
2. Some people can do a lot of business on Facebook site. like Marketing product by Facebook Advertising.
3. To keep in touch by getting notifications on the mobile, email and Facebook itself.
4. To fight for a cause and to acknowledge the number of supporters by looking at the fans.
5. To play games, social interviews and even to say those words which you cannot say verbally.
 6. To share with others what you like.
7. The credibility of comments: because the reader is obliged to insert his name and his true identity, and therefore he would think over and over again be
 written as.

o Weaknesses:

1. In some countries blocked site Facebook, and therefore will not receive comments from citizens.
2. Some users copy images of different people and edit them for blackmailing those people.
3. It can be used as a source for abusing users on the Facebook.
4. Everything wound be stored in Facebook and cannot be deleted and everyone wants privacy but The privacy setting of Facebook is not enough to let the users to feel safe.
5. The lack of new points in Facebook. I mean the lack of interesting and attractive items in Facebook. People use Facebook may because it is new to them. So Facebook will have less interesting as time.
6. Some people are even getting annoyed by the numerous email notifications and the message posted by other's applications.
7. It attracts and distracts our attention too much and therefore takes a great share of our time.

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The current state of facebook

o current state of the company:

The current state of social networking has reached overwhelming proportions. Recently, Facebook has announce end that there are more than 2000 Employees work in the Facebook company, and Over 500 million active , which means one out of every 15 people on the planet is on the site. We all know that Facebook is the big winner in the social networks with number of users surpassing any other social media. Believe me Facebook is the third in the world after China and India.

o Products:

Facebook, the product, is made up of core site functions and applications. Fundamental features to the experience on Facebook are a person’s Home page and Profile. The Home page includes News Feed, a personalized feed of his or her friends they can always connect together and see the new updates. The Profile displays information about the individual he or she has chosen to share, including interests, education and work background, contact information, Photos, Events, Videos, Groups, and Pages – that let people connect and share in rich and engaging ways. Additionally, people can communicate with one another through Chat, personal messages, Wall posts, Pokes, or Status Updates. There are over half a million applications on Facebook. Over a million local businesses have active Pages on Facebook. some people live in Facebook, enjoying the “walled garden” environment where they can send messages, update their status, comment on other people’s status, announce events, share photos, tag them, give gifts, chat, use custom applications, and play games — all in this same environment, without using other services. Not only is Facebook becoming an aggregator of web services, it is also becoming the go-to location for clubs, groups, even churches — where people can share publicly or privately their taste, ideas, opinions and interests.  Facebook has affected the social life and activity of people in various ways. It can reunite lost family members and friends. One such reunion was between John Watson and the daughter he had been searching for 20 years. They met after Watson found her Facebook profile. Another father-daughter reunion was between Tony McNaughton and Frances Simpson who had not seen each other for nearly 48 years. Some studies
Have named Facebook as a source of problems in relationships. Several news stories have suggested that using Facebook causes divorce and infidelity, but the claims have been questioned and refuted by other commentators

o Technology:

Facebook is one of the most-trafficked sites in the world and has had to build infrastructure to support this rapid growth. The company is the largest user in the world of me cached, an open source caching system, and has one of the largest My SQL database clusters anywhere. The site is largely written in PHP though the engineering team developed a way to programmatically transform PHP source code into C++ to gain performance benefits. Facebook relies heavily on open source software and releases large pieces of its own software infrastructure as open source. Nowadays, Facebook with you 24 hours, its available in all the smart phones such as Black berry, I phone, I pad and other phones

 

History of Facebook

Facebook site launched as a product is expected from the site Face Match of the University of Harvard, a site of Hot or not type depends on the publication of photographs of a group of people and then choosing the site for leading the most attractive person. Mark Zuckerberg has created a comprehensive Face Match on 28 October 2003, when he had attended Harvard University as a student in the second year. In the meantime, Zuckerberg was the establishment of a blog about one of the girls and trying to think of doing something that might stop him from thinking of this girl.
In the second half of the same academic year, Zuckerberg founded the site "Facebook" on the scale the Facebook.com and specifically on November 4, 2004.
The membership site limited initially to the students of Harvard College, the oldest faculties of Harvard University, and during the first month of access to the site to use, more than half of the students who have not yet graduated from the university up to this service. And shortly after, joined by Eduardo Saver in (Executive Director of the Company), Dustin Markowitz (programmer) and Andrew McCollum (graphic artist), Chris Hughes, Zuckerberg to help him to improve. In March of 2004, Facebook opened its doors to the universities of Stanford, Columbia and Yale. After that, the wider the site more and open the doors to all the faculties of Boston University Ivy League, and gradually became available to many universities in Canada and the United States of America and in June of 2004, moved the headquarters of Face book to the city of Palo Alto, California. The company has dropped the word from its name after purchasing the domain name Facebook.com in 2005 for a sum of U.S. $ 200000. Face book has also issued a copy of the secondary schools in September of 2005, which referred to the next logical step Zuckerberg. During this period, the networks of secondary schools in need of an invitation to join the site. After that, the site allowed for the participation of staff from several companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. combined. On 26 September 2006, the site opens its doors to all individuals aged thirteen years and older who have an e-mail address correctly. In October of 2008,

organizers announced on Facebook that management take the capital city of Dublin Ireland has international headquarters.

introduction:

Facebook is one of the largest social networking sites, it follows his own company. Site was launched in the fourth of February 2004.The site allows users to join the several sub-networks from the same location. Name (Facebook), referring to the book and the paper carries pictures and information to individuals in a particular university. Mark Zuckerberg founded the site when he was a student at Harvard University and the site was initially dedicated only to students in the same University. In our report we will explain about some issues of this topic (Facebook), we will focus on the History, The current state, Strengths and weaknesses, Competitors and threats, What we like and don’t like about the Facebook, and any other issues we think are interesting or important. All of these issues we will discuss them in detail in this Report.

Contacts:

o   Introduction

o   History of the Facebook

o   The current state of the Facebook

o   Strengths and weaknesses

o   Competitors and threats

o   What you like/do-not-like about the Facebook

o   Any other issues you think are interesting/important

o   Conclusion

o   References

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United Arab Emirates University

College of Business & Economics

 

 

Fundamentals of Management

Information Systems

MIST115-project:

Submitted to: Dr. Omar Alnuaimi

students name: 

safeya Alhosani

Khawla Alhosani

Aisha Almazrooi 

Eiman saif 

chaymaa almasallam