{"id":14,"date":"2010-09-30T10:38:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T18:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-09-30T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T18:40:41","slug":"14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/2010\/09\/30\/14\/","title":{"rendered":"If I wanted to connect to my friends, the first place I would go to is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/files\/2010\/09\/facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15\" title=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/files\/2010\/09\/facebook-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/files\/2010\/09\/facebook-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/files\/2010\/09\/facebook-1024x785.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/files\/2010\/09\/facebook.jpg 1276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook is a social networking website that started in February 2004, winning the hearts of over 500 million active users who are continually using this site.\u00a0 Initially created by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard roommates, Facebook became a huge success and is definitely recognized globally.\u00a0 So what made Facebook so popular?<\/p>\n<p>Facebook was not the first social network service introduced.\u00a0 In fact, there were plenty of similar websites before like MySpace, Hi5, Nexopia, Twitter and Friendster however, Facebook did an exceptional job in <em><strong>positioning itself into the consumer&#8217;s mind<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Unlike the other websites,\u00a0 Facebook managed to maintain popular because on top of their <em><strong>points of parity<\/strong><\/em> with others, they were able to find valuable <em><strong>points of differences<\/strong><\/em> to set them aside from their compeition.<\/p>\n<p>Many several networking websites offer services like adding your friends, uploading photos, posting messages to let your knows how you&#8217;re doing.\u00a0 However, Facebook proved to a more effective and convenient source that compiled all these useful benefits.\u00a0 Facebook was different in the sense that it encouraged users to supply real information so if an old high school classmate was ever to search for you, it would be easy.\u00a0 As well, sharing recents pictures is very simple with an unlimited amount you can upload.\u00a0 Along with many games and applications you can choose to download, Facebook allows the creation of pages, interest groups and events that you may choose to like or join.<\/p>\n<p>Being the leading social networking service, businesses will definitely not miss out on their opportunity to engage their consumers through this.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/your-business\/business-categories\/web-strategy\/facebook-is-about-interaction-its-not-about-sales\/article1733173\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is a social networking website that started in February 2004, winning the hearts of over 500 million active users who are continually using this site.\u00a0 Initially created by Mark Zuckerberg and his Harvard roommates, Facebook became a huge success and is definitely recognized globally.\u00a0 So what made Facebook so popular? Facebook was not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stephaniefan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}