Facebook

• Who owns the site?

Created by Mark Zuckerberg. Owned now by Facebook, Inc.

• What other internet sites do they own?

Instagram for $1 billion

• What is its revenue?

$3.71 billion (2011)

• What is its overall worth?

$50-$65 billion
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-08/tech/facebook.overvalued_1_mark-zuckerberg-facebook-worldwide-users?_s=PM:TECH

• Research five key facts about the institution.

1. Launched in 2004, in 5 years became the worlds most used social working site.
2. In May 2011 facebook lost 7million users.
3. Critics say that it has become a national obsession.
4. 7.5 million users are under 13 which are against the site's terms of service
5. More than halve the users (955million) use  Facebook on a mobile device.

• Find three quotes (with references) about the institution.

"Facebook is a great social networking website with plenty of networking options, and with the open source apps and friendly atmosphere you really can’t go wrong." - Top 10 reviews
http://social-networking-websites-review.toptenreviews.com/facebook-review.html

"Facebook can be thought of as your home on the Internet."
http://webtrends.about.com/od/socialnetworking/a/why_facebook.htm

"My family lives far away, and Facebook helps me connect with a lot of people that I haven't seen in years. It also helps me to socialize with my friends, which I think is really cool."

• Summarise two linked Wikipedia articles (5 bullet points each)

Face book is a social networking site
Its the number 1 worldwide social netwrk with over 955million users
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes
The site was orginally only meant to be used by Harvard Students but later expanded in its success.

• Post up an infographic about the company.

• Embed a YouTube video about it (summarise 5 key points).

Is Facebook Violating Your Privacy? - What the Government Should Do About Facebook
(Warning: Strong Language)

The video basically talks about privcy and how to avoid it. Facebook always has privacy issues; they leak private information to corporations and advertisers. If people have things to hide then they should just get off the site and delete their accounts. He also says that it is not the goverments job to protect your information from being seen.