According to the owners of Facebook, its mission "is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.”
The first step is to create a personal profile – who you are, where you live and work, what your interests are. Secondly, you make links to known friends (often drawing on your email contacts list). Thirdly you can attempt to link to other Facebook members with similar profiles.
Facebook has a number of features with which users may interact. They include the Wall, a space on every user's profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see, Pokes, which allows users to send a virtual "poke" to each other (a notification that tells a user that they have been poked), Photos, where users can upload albums and photos, and Status, which allows users to inform their friends of their whereabouts and actions.
There is a growing range of third-party add-on services and features, or Widgets, which enhance the attractiveness of the service. These can be games, information sources, or communication tools.
Alternatives to Facebook include MySpace and Google’s Orkut.
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