3. “I’m here to build something for the long term. Anything else is a distraction.”
Mark Zuckerberg
Why Facebook 101?
4. Phillip Jeffrey
• UBC Graduate Student
(Media and Graphics
Interdisciplinary Centre)
• Facebook Member since 2005
• Social Media | Student-focused
• Publications, Press, Presentations
5. “What [Facebook] needed to do was
construct as accurate a model as possible
of the way the social graph looks in the real Building on Real World
world” ~ Mark Zuckerberg
Relationships
6. By the Numbers
• Number 1 Site for Photos
• 62+ Million Active Users
• 7 Million are Canadians
• 250 000 New Registrations/
Day
7. Photo by Flickr user mondoagogo
http://tinyurl.com/2ogkaj
Expectations and Reality based
Privacy on Experience
16. Flickr photo by user dhammza
http://tinyurl.com/2qgo2l
Privacy Tracking footprints
17. “Jim Combs, a Harper College student who is transferring to NIU this fall, created the Facebook group [Pray for
Northern Illinois University Students and Families] at 4:30 p.m., an hour and a half after the shootings began.”
Chicago Tribute. http://tinyurl.com/2ualq2
Privacy News Source for Media since
Sept 2006