Acknowledgements:

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Overview of Social Networks
Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn
Acknowledgements Facebook Phenomenon Conference
at NCSU 2007 and to Fred Stutzman, UNC PhD
Research 2005-2006.
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Welcome to Facebook

• Founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg at
  Harvard University.
• Late February, half of Harvard had registered.
• April expanded to Ivy League Colleges
• By December 2004, the number of registered users
  exceeded one million.

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Welcome to Facebook

• As of February 2007, the number of registered
  users had grown to 18 million.
• November 2007, 43 million of which 18 million
  were from U.S.
• 60 Facebook users from U.S. are female

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Welcome to Facebook

• Created for college students, but has expanded to
  networks of companies, geographical regions, high
  schools, anyone.

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Welcome to Facebook

• Users create personal profiles that contain
• photos
• lists of interests and personal favorites
• private or public messages
• groups of friends and networks
• The viewing of detailed profile data is
  restricted to users from the same network, group,
  or confirmed friends, and now a new subgroup
  friends of friends.

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Overview of Social Networks

• An online community is made up of individuals
  who have created a profile about themselves.
• ? The profile may or may not be accurate.
• The community will have several tools available
  within the network privacy controls, groups,
  messages, notes, friends, photos, viral video,
  feeds, profile information
• Many (300) different sites with their own
  characteristics. MySpace, Friendster, Facebook,
  myYearbook

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Facebook Incidence

• Fred Stutzman, UNC-CH
• Studies on incoming freshmen 2005-06

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How is Facebook Used?

• Hang out, play games
• They use it as a directory
• Making friends, meeting people
• What is a friend?
• Sharing common interests - groups
• Coordinate group activities

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Privacy Concerns

• Students are comfortable with sharing
  information.
• Photo sharing
• 10,000 to 80,000 in photos in 7 weeks once it was
  introduced during fall semester
• You can tag people in photos
• Facebook claims to be largest photo sharing site

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Time to Dive In!

• Login facebook.com
• My Privacy - set privacy settings
• My Profile - upload photo, write some stuff about
  yourself
• Search for people
• Join CYFAR group
• Write on a friends wall

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To begin creating your pageGo to the Website
Today we will make you the newest facebook user!

• www.facebook.com

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Click on Register to create your account.
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Fill in all of the Required Fields
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Your account has been created!
Log-In to your E-mail account.
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Click on link to confirm your registration. You
will return to the Facebook website.
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Start Designing your Facebook Profile

• To find people to add as friends search your
  e-mail account.

2. If your search finds anyone, add them!
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Joining your Facebook Networks

• To join a network you will need to have a valid
  email address for your company or college.
• Your network affiliation is authenticated by that
  e-mail address.
• You may belong to only one regional network.

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Your Profile Picture and Verification

• Select a photo to represent you. Graphics and
  images are good choices too.
• Upload your profile picture,
• You can skip this step and wait until you have a
  photo that you want.

• Verify your account if you choose to do so.
• Click on Im all done

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Start Editing your Page

• Click on Edit My Profile
• You will now be able to add in your favorite
  things, quotes, ideas, and personal information
  that you would like others to know about you.

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Editing your Profile
Save Changes and then click the Contact tab to
continue.
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Contact Information

• When choosing what information to put on your
  profile
• Keep in mind that with any on-line web-page there
  are security risks.
• Privacy Settings will be discussed shortly.
• Click on Save Changes and then the Personal
  tab.

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Personal Information
You can add as much or as little information that
you want. The choice is yours.
Click on Save Changes, followed by clicking on
Education to continue.
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Education Information

• What University or High School did you attend?
• Click on Save Changes followed by clicking on
  the Work tab to continue.

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Work Information
Here you can insert your résumé.
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Edit Your Profile Picture
You can return to this location whenever you want
to change your profile picture.
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Finding Your Friends

• Type in your hometown or a friends name and click
  on Search.
• Your search will bring up any results.
• When you find someone you would like to add click
  on Add to Friends.

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Finding Your Friends

• Type in the Security Check code.
• Click Add (Name) as Your Friend.

You can also add other CYFAR conference
participants!!!
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Security
Click on My Privacy.
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Security

• There are many security controls that you can
  activate on Facebook.
• You will be shown the basic security measures
  that you can take.

Click on Profile to begin.
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Security

• Here is a small portion of the Profile section.
  
• Select which portions of your profile you want to
  be viewable by choosing
• Only my friends
• All my networks and all of my friends
• Some of my networks and all of my friends

Click on Save when done.
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Security

• Click on each section in My Privacy and assign
  your security settings to levels that you are
  comfortable with.
• Each section has clear explanations for you.

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Joining a Group

• There are countless groups with virtually every
  special interest avenue that you can imagine.
• Today you will join the CYFAR group.
• Type in CYFAR and click on Search Groups.

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Joining a Group
Click on Request to Join Group. Today you have
just successfully started your Facebook profile,
added your friends, and joined the CYFAR group!!!
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Want to Know More?

• For more information!
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
• All information given for this presentation was
  found using Wikipedia and www.facebook.com