The Best Features Of Facebook
Facebook has several features that make it one of the most popular websites with the youth in America. Apart from the usual profiles and the name that is derived from the paper facebooks that depict campus members in universities, Facebook has several other features that make it popular. These are some of the features that give Facebook its identity: • The Wall:
The wall is one of the most basic and oldest features that have been there ever since Facebook originated. It is similar to the scrap book that can be seen in some other social networking sites. A user can post a message for the other users to see on his wall. However, a wall can also be seen by any other user who can view the profile. In other words, anyone who is a confirmed friend or within the same community can view the wall. The wall is only used for small and temporary messages that can be read by all. The more private messages are reserved for the messages section of Facebook. • Gifts:
This is one of the latest features that have been received really well by the users of the website. The company roped in former Apple designer Susan Kare to design small icons of novelty or gift items. Now friends can send each other a virtual gift complete with a personalized message by selecting them from a virtual gift shop. Gifts are visible on the recipient’s wall usually with the name and the message of the sender. However, if the sender wants to send it privately, he or she can choose to do so and the name is not displayed. There is another feature called the gift box which will display all the gifts that a person has received. The anonymous option will let everyone view the gift in the gift box but no one can see the message. • Classifieds/ Marketplace:
This is yet another superb feature which introduced the users of Facebook to trade and online business. Any of the users can post ads for jobs, houses etc. with the available or wanted tags. Facebook combined with oodle.com to make this service available to its users. • Poke:
Not all the features on a website need to have a specific meaning. Some can be added just for fun. Based on this unique principle, Facebook added the poke feature on the website. A poke can be similar to a nudge. However, one is free to derive any meaning for the poke as one chooses. The poke has inspired the formation of several groups within Facebook and now it has also started another feature called poke wars in which users poke each other to and fro. • Applications:
In order to further increase interactivity and user contribution in Facebook, Facebook launched the applications platform which allows users or developers to contribute applications. Several developers have responded with some amazing applications.
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