What is Facebook?
- Online social network.
- 1.18 billion monthly active users.
- Potential to develop 21st century skills.
Facebook is an online social network service that was launched on Feb 4th, 2015. This is one of the biggest social networks in the world with 1.18 billion monthly active users as of August 2015. After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as "friends", exchange messages, post status updates and photos, share videos and receive notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". With this huge amount of users, combine with its useful functions, Facebook would be a great potential tool for developing 21st century skills.