Facebook and its Multimedia elements

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Olympia College                                Assignment                    Diploma In Information Technology


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  1. Question
  2. Introduction
  3. Main Body
  4. Conclusion


QUESTION

  1. Facebook is known as the fastest growing social network in today’s world, with all the multimedia elements such as text, audio, video, graphic and animations instilled in it. Based on this statement, do a research on how all these elements are used accordingly in the website.

INTRODUCTION

SOCIAL NETWORK

Social network site is a very common thing all around the world in this era. Social network site is also known as SNS.There are many types of social network these days the examples are Friendster ,MySpace, Facebook, Tagged, Twitter  and many more. Statistic shows that the most common used social network in the year of 2010 is Facebook with  133,623,529 visits and followed by MySpace with  50,615,444 visits and Twitter comes along with 23,573,178 visits and many more. Social networking site allows people all around world to keep in touch with old friends and get new friends at the same time. Social networking sites has also been used by those who works, they convey their particular information to everyone to maximise their publicity. These sites can also be oriented towards students in their college life, they take and share information regarding their studies and as entertainment at the same time. In marketing wise, social networking sites also plays an important role the examples are the publicity of a particular product. Other than that, in social networking sites we can post photos, share links and exchange other information as mentioned earlier. Social network has applications (apps) that has it own unique, the examples are business application, gaming application, music application and more.

MAIN BODY

FACEBOOK

Facebook is the most common used social network site and used international wide . Facebook is owned by Facebook ,Inc which is private. The founders of Facebook are Mark Zuckeberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The headquarters(HQ) is located at Palo Alto, California, U.S., and  is now relocated to Mentlo Park, California, U.S. on June 2011. The area served is worldwide in other word internationally. The key people of Facebook are Mark Zuckerberg(CEO), Chris Cox(VP of Product), Sheryl Sandberg(COO), and Donald E.Graham(Chairman). The amount of money regularly coming in is US$2 billion the year of 2010. The Net income is N/A and the employees are 2004+(2011). The website of Facebook is ”www.facebook.com”. The IPv6 support of Facebook is . The Alexa rank which is online service that ranks for websites based on users data of facebook is -2. Facebook is a social networking service. Facebook is advertised by banner adds, referral marketing, casual games. In facebook registration is required to avoid any against the copy rights. The num of users all around the world is 600 million and it is active during June 2011. If facebook were an country, it would be the 3rd largest by population. Facebook has become hub of connection and commerce. The table shows the statistic on facebook users.

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Statistic on Facebook growth.

FACEBOOK CODEBASE

The codebase of facebook is consist of around 9.2million lines few minutes before,but it is not included numerous backend services so the actual size of it is much more larger compared to 9.2million. There are also some components that is hard to be count accurately but the main site codebase is largest among the all of it by far so this is atleast a reasonable order-of-magnitude estimated.

FACEBOOK APPLICATIONS

Facebook is contained with many application which is a perfect combination of few multimedia elements such as text, images, animations, ...

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