A Comprehensive Report on Information Technology Ethics

This report provides an analysis of Information Technology Ethics, using Facebook as a case study. It begins with a brief history of Facebook, tracing its origins and growth from its inception as "Facemash" to its current status as a global social media platform. The report explores the demographics of Facebook users, detailing the gender distribution and the percentage of internet users who actively use the platform. It then examines the functionalities of Facebook, including messaging, following, and video calling services, and discusses the privacy protections offered by the platform, including the data collection practices and privacy policies. The report also addresses the popularity of Facebook, its current free-of-cost services, and provides insights into the potential future of Facebook, suggesting a possible decrease in overall popularity due to market saturation. The report references several sources and includes details on the collection of user data and provides a comprehensive view of Facebook's role in the context of IT ethics.

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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).
Washington, DC: Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
Markovikj, D., Gievska, S., Kosinski, M., & Stillwell, D. (2013, June). Mining facebook data
for predictive personality modeling. In Proceedings of the 7th international AAAI
conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013), Boston, MA, USA (pp. 23-
26).
Sánchez, R. A., Cortijo, V., & Javed, U. (2014). Students' perceptions of Facebook for
academic purposes. Computers & Education, 70, 138-149.