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11/30- Great job starting your wiki! 100 :) Wonderful job, ladies!!! - Mrs. P. 12/1- You're ready to move on! Go to [] and look through the 10 questions your group must answer. Divide the questions and have each person find the answers using the links and suggestions at the bottom of the designathon blog page. Be sure to post the question and the answer on the wiki and do not copy and paste answers-that's plagiarism! 12/2-3- Lovely work! I saw what you were working on yesterday, just get your answers posted on this wiki page today. When you finish finding all the answers, go to [|www.designathon.blogspot.com] to find the instructions for writing the article. Articles are due before you leave Friday, 12/4. Grade- 100 :) 12/4 Finish article on Monday before you leave, unless you're already finished. After that, go to Designathon and get today's assignment. Great work, ladies!  1. When was your social networking site or technology created? Facebook, in its earliest stage called Facemash, was created October 28, 2003. A rudimentary version of the website, officially dubbed [The] Facebook, was launched in February of 2004. It was originally reserved for Ivy-league college alumni, but was opened up to other universities and high school students by 2005.  2. Who is credited with creating your social networking site or technology? Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes

3. How do most people use your social networking site or technology? Facebook is used differently by different age groups. High school students use Facebook to socialize with friends. Collegiate students use Facebook to keep in touch with high school friends, college alumni, and family. Facebook is also used professionally to keep in touch with co-workers, and to network customers. 4. What are some of the benefits of using your social networking site or technology?  It was originally to keep in touch with alumni, but has grown and is now used for socializing.

5. What are some of the drawbacks of using your social networking site or technology? One major drawback of Facebook, like any public social-networking site, is that your information is publicly displayed, such as your name and photo. Unless your profile is set to private, any user can view information you post such as your location, birth date, phone number, and even address. Profile pictures, even if your profile is private, are visible by anyone. This can pose as a problem when you post personal photographs, since they can be viewed by other parties, such as members of your professional community. Another drawback of Facebook is that when you tag another user in a photograph, all of that user’s friends can view the photo. This gives strangers access to your personal photos.  6. How can users of your social networking site or technology control what other users see or find about them?  Users can unable friends from seeing updates of some of their certain activities.

 7-8. What are some of the controversies surrounding your social networking site or technology? Common Facebook controversies include users being expelled, fired, or otherwise punished for the content of their Facebook page. A teacher in Georgia was fired over a photo of herself with beer mugs and wine in her hands was spotted by the parent of a student. The teacher claims the profile was private and the photo was from a personal vacation, but profile pictures can still be seen by anyone.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">9.What was the original purpose of your social networking site or technology? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;"> F acebook’s original purpose was to allow students to meet, interact, and keep up with fellow classmates online. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;">10. How are high schools, colleges and/or universities using your social networking site or technology? <span style="color: #39c09e; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 11pt;"> Socializing, to keep in touch with family, friends, etc. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">

Article Draft: As Mark Zuckerberg sat blogging in his dorm room late one night in 2003, he never imagined that his online ramblings would one day spawn a multi-billion dollar company that would claim a million monthly active users. Zuckerberg, at the time a Harvard sophomore, wanted to create a unified online face book for his fellow classmates. Discontented with the face book the university provided with only student photos and names, Harvard students were calling for an online social networking site. Answering the call, Zuckerberg created a site that would not only allow users to browse fellow students, but learn about and contact them. Thus, Facebook was born. Facebook is used differently by different age groups. High school students use Facebook to socialize with friends. Collegiate students use Facebook to keep in touch with high school friends, college alumni, and family. Facebook is also used professionally to keep in touch with co-workers and network customers. One major drawback of Facebook, like any public social-networking site, is that your information is publicly displayed, such as your name and photo. Unless your profile is set to private, any user can view information you post such as your location, birth date, phone number, and even address. Profile pictures, even if your profile is private, are visible by anyone. This can pose as a problem when you post personal photographs, since they can be viewed by other parties, such as members of your professional community. Another drawback of Facebook is that when you tag another user in a photograph, all of that user’s friends can view the photo. This gives strangers access to your personal photos. Socializing is one of the main ways that Facebook is used. Users may update wall posts, and on the wall posts other users on the website can send feedback to the post. Most of the users on Facebook are using the website to keep in touch with co-workers, family, and long lost friends.