The creator of Facebook is Mark Zuttberg pupil of the University of Harvard.
He had an idea an it was to create a community of people of Internet where the people can express her emotions and publish what the think. The company has more than 400 millions usurious.
History
Facebook was created in March 2006, and it was also for the students of Harvard. In June 2006 it was published in the India. In September 2006 Facebook open her doors for all the public. In 2007 Facebook was accreted with 15.000. millions of dollars. Nowadays the company has more than 350 millions users.
Services
·List of friends – in this list you have all the friends. You can have more friends and it's easy to invite them.
·Groups or pages that you like – you can create groups about all you want, except violence and racism, and you can be a fan of groups or pages you like.
·Wall – you can put all you feel in the moment and see message that other people post.
·Photos – Nowadays there are 5000 millions of photos and 160 terabytes of memory.
·Chat – You can chat with your friends.
·Gifts – There are small icons you can put in the chat.
·Games and applications – There are a loot of games and applications created by the users. There are so interesting and one example is FarmVille.
International impact.
After translation into languages other than English, Facebook has grown not only users, but has transformed the way people use the internet. Actually Facebook has got millions users. It's an incredible number!
Facebook now in numbers.
Facebook has more than 400 million registered users around the world. According to a web, the position rose rise up from 60th place to 7th in a year. Now it's the second position.
It's the most popular web for uploading photographies. The statistics are that 83 millions photos uploaded for day. There are more than 500.000 apletes.
Critiques
Facebook has received a lot of critic opinion because it's so easy to access on it and children can have bad influence. When you sign the contract with Facebook, you sign that all the rights are of Facebook, and all you put in Facebook can be used by them. Congratulations: be careful what you upload to Facebook :)
REFLEXION - Did you use any resources? Yes, I do. I use a power point.
- Were the resources relevant and attractive? Well, I think that in this presentation the presentation wasn't very relevant.
- Did you look at your audience most of the time? Only a few times I look at the ground, the other time I was looking at my audience.
- Did you read from your notes? No, I didn't.
- Did you do any gestures/movement to hold the attention of your audience? Yes. I realise some movements to capt the attention of my audience and I mark some important things in the powerpoint.
- Did you organize your ideas in order of importance? Yes. I have tryed to organized the ideas
- Did you use discourse markers to to make your ideas more clear? (First, then, secondly,on the one hand, on the other hand, finally..) - Yes, I did.
- Did you introduce interesting NEW information to your audience? Well, I try to informated the audience about Facebook, and it's very possible that all the people now about it.
- Did you look up information/facts/ideas in the internet, books..? Was your information more superficial or more detailed, and original? My information was very detailed but not much original I think. I
- Did you check your grammar?(verbs, word order) - I do it, but when I'm not reading I do a lot of mistakes.
- Did you use rich vocabulary looking up the dictionary?(synonyms, new words, expressions..) I think yes. I use new words.
- Did you use sentence linkers?(and, but, moreover, also, furthermore, although,however..) Yes. I use some linkers. I never use furthermore, although and moreover
- Did you use fillers?(well, you know, for example, one second..) I use some fillers, my prefer is Well.
- Did you know how to pronounce all your words? Yes, I know, but I put very nervous when I talk to the audience and I make mistakes.
- Did you check the pronunciation with a dictionary, a classmate or the teacher? Yes, I do.
- Did you change your tone of voice or use a monotone tone all the time? Did you speed in a fluid continuum or with breaks and interruptions? I think that I change my tone of voice. It's possible that I talk very fast and this make problems to understand me.
OTHER ORAL PRESENTATION I think that my mark is 7-8 because I make a good oral presentation, but not my better presentation. I think that I can do it more well. It's true that I don't read anything so this must be extra points.
Marc Guilana, Sergi Molina and Marc Nogué
They do a roleplay about two parents and her problematic soon. I think that the idea was very original, and they do it well, but they can prepare it a bit more. It's true that represent something to the auddience it's difficult, so it was OK.
Marc Matamala, Marc Ferrer and Franc Pedro.
They talk about Apple and Microsoft. I think that the topic was very great and interesting, but they don't say important things. It's true that they prepare the oral a lot and his power point was very beautiful, but they say a lot of numbers and names, and I don't remember a lot of things. All in all I think that they work hard.
Pol Masvidal, Marc Solés and Sílvia Vilaseca.
They talk about Touré Yaya and Sandra Bullok. It was an interesting oral presentation, but the power point was a little poor. I think that they were ok.
Samantha is going to show us Dublin. Dublin is the capital of Ireland. Over for million people visit Dublin. There's a lot of young people. Samantha has a Ireland family. Her grandfather says that the disease kill a lot of people and destroy the potatoes, so a lot of people die of hunger. More than one million people die. Dublin has many old beautiful buildings, one of this is Trinity College. Trinity College is about 16th Century. There's a sculpture of Oscar Wilde, the writer of Oliver Twist. Dublin is the best capital European to live.
In 1759 was built a sculpture called Wilberforce. Wilberforce fight to defend the rights and the people and to eradicate the sell of people. They buy the slaves in Africa. The ships were so small and they transport a lot of slaves. 20 % die for hunger or disease. Wilberforce make a law to protect the slavery and he can eradicate it.
Roxane is in Oxford and she is going to explain how new tecnlogies change the music. First appear the disc. In 1979 was invented radio-cassette player, and after that the CD. But now you only have to have Internet connection. She talks with a band called The Half Rabbits and asks about what they think about the impact of the Internet nowadays.
In this chapter Joe is training to ran 10 km in the race of the next Saturday. He run to raise money for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. He shows us the Guide Dogs Training Center and it's in Leamington Spa. We can see a interview with a trainer dog's and how they trainer a dog. It's interesting and you can learn the difficult to be a blind. Also it's shocking that to train one dog we need 18 months, and every year the center waste 40 millions of pounds.
New Castle is in Britain and it's a city that have a lot of museums like DAZED or BALTIC. Sally guide us to see the Angel of the North. To see this sculpture, it's the biggest in UK, we must travel 5 miles from New Castle. Angle of the North it's twenty meters high and only is 10 years old. It was crated by an British artist called Anthony Colony, he was living in India when he decided to do the sculpture. He receive important prices. The Angel is made of steel and weigh more than two hundred thousands kg. The people of New Castle are very proud of the Angel of the North.
An English teacher wrote these words on the whiteboard: "woman without her man is nothing". The teacher then asked the students to punctuate the words correctly. The men wrote: "Woman, without her man, is nothing." The women wrote: "Woman! Without her, man is nothing."
What's the definition of a pessimist? A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
