Information Technology Ethics Facebook: The Facebook Inc

In this case study we will discuss about Information technology ethics and bleow are the summaries point:- Facebook is a popular social media service organization based in the United States, founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his friends from Harvard College. The website was initially known as "Facemash" and became popular quickly after launch, with 22,000 photo views and 450 visitors within a few hours. Initially, Facebook faced restrictions in some educational sectors, but it gradually expanded to universities across the United States, and saw rapid growth in 2006-12. Demographically, Facebook's user base consists of 47% males and 53% females, with 83% of women and 75% of men who use the internet also using Facebook. Facebook's main functionalities include messaging, following, calling, and video calling services. Facebook offers privacy protection by following its own privacy policy, and collects data such as users' names, gender, email, mobile number, date of birth, and personal info for marketing purposes. Facebook is currently the most popular social media network in the world, and its services are free of charge with no external fees.

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Facebook:
The Facebook Inc. is one of the most popular online social media service organization
which is based on U.S. The Facebook Inc (Sánchez, Cortijo & Javed, 2014). of today was
founded by Mark Zuckerberg along with his friends of the Harvard College. The Facebook is
considered one of the most efficient IT technologies organization in the world.
History of the Facebook:
The Facebook started in the year of the 2003 when it was in the development stage by
Mark Zuckerberg. At that time the Facebook was known as the “Facemash.” Within the very
few hours of its launch the website becomes very much popular that it was able to attract
22,000 photo views and a total 450 of visitors.
Growth of the Facebook:
Initially the growth of the Facebook was very much slow due to the restrictions in
some of the educational sector. Though the Facebook was restricted in various of sectors, it
was still expanding Yale, Stamford and the Columbia. Initially the main target of the
Facebook was expanding in various of universities of USA. Though it started slowly in the
initial stage, it got a massive success on 2006-12 when the organization sees a rapid growth
of their platform.
Demography of Facebook:
Currently the Facebook have 47% of total males and 53% of females (Duggan &
Brenner, 2013). All the peoples who uses the internet, displays that among them 83% of the
women and the 75% of the men use Facebook.

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Functionalities:
The main functionalities which need to considered are the messaging service,
following service and the calling and the video calling service.
Privacy Protection:
The Facebook offers the privacy protection by following the privacy policy of them.
Collection of data:
The Facebook collects the data about basic info of the users of it which includes the
name, gender, email, mobile number and the date of birth (Markovikj et al., 2013). Also, this
collects some personal info for marketing.
Popularity:
Facebook is currently most popular social media network in the world.
Charges regarding the services:
Currently the Facebook is totally free of cost and does not include any type of
external charges.
Future of Facebook:
In the future the services provided by the Facebook maybe increase vastly but the
overall popularity of the Facebook will decrease. This is because of the reason that the
Facebook is currently in its peak saturated stage and after that it is expected that the Facebook
will face a lower graph with number of users active.

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References:
Duggan, M., & Brenner, J. (2013). The demographics of social media users, 2012 (Vol. 14).
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Markovikj, D., Gievska, S., Kosinski, M., & Stillwell, D. (2013, June). Mining facebook data
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Sánchez, R. A., Cortijo, V., & Javed, U. (2014). Students' perceptions of Facebook for
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