E-COMMERCE

What is facebook?

-A reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals’ photographs and names; A college publication distributed at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better; To communicate through the Internet.
-Facebook is a social networking site that allows for developers to contribute applications that interact with Facebook features. GoGrid offers a Facebook Server Image that allows Facebook developers to contribute their applications through GoGrid servers directly to Facebook's development network.

Advantages and Disadvantages of facebook?

Yet there are some people who wonder if the time spent on Facebook is worthwhile, its Advantages and Disadvantages have many thinking. As with every system there are the positives and the negatives, if you are going to evaluate the Facebook Advantages and Disadvantages lets take a look at some facts:

Disadvantages:

• Facebook is becoming a place for long distance relationships with many people you will never meet, this takes some of the intimacy away from relationships
• Facebook addiction is becoming something that is a real problem; if you have any life at all you have other things to do besides sit on Facebook all day.
• Because of open and public nature of Facebook there is the possibility for being stalked online or offline, this can be highly aggravating!
• Terrible for worker productivity. If you are self employed Facebook can consume much of your time if you are not careful. If you run a business your employees may waste valuable and expensive time using Facebook.
• Let's talk about these people on Facebook who are labeled "friends"...are they really?

Advantages:

· Facebook makes it easy to find and join groups with similar interest and dislikes

· It is easier to find old friends or new friends as almost everyone is on Facebook.

· Facebook makes it easy to approach and meet new people

· Facebook can be used to meet business contacts and for networking purposes

· Allows user search for new and old friends
· Accessible to chosen universities having a high level of security
· Makes it less awkward when communicating with strangers or people you are not familiar with
· Love attraction - can be used as a dating service system
· Makes it easier to join groups having similar likes and dislikes
· Allows members to check students who are taking the same class, living within the same area,

What are the characteristics of facebook?Why are many people engage in this site?

They are non-interruptive – Think about all the times you have non-marketing oriented folks tell you why they are on Facebook.

They don’t strive for 1:1 communication, but they are active – Anyone who has worked in a social media program can attest to the fact that social media users have a keen eye for BS (for lack of a better expression). the relationship with the entire user base.

They use Facebook to create evangelists – Badges, apps, fanpages…all of these things are ways to turn your existing base into your own built in brand evangelizing army.

Facebook doesn’t begin the conversation, it enhances it – If you’re a new or low profile brand looking to increase awareness, Facebook can be a great way to do it.

-People engage this site to have many friends,and other people create thier facebook beacuse they dont want to behind in thier friends.

Can you use facebook in e-commerce?How and Why?

- Yes you can used e-commerce in facebook beacuse you can sale your product to your friends in facebook by chatting and e-mail them about your product.

How important facebook in our society today?

Facebook is impotant today beacuse it is the one of the top social networking sites, quickly gaining on Myspace in terms of total users and traffic. Facebook presents a unique marketing opportunity for businesses through the creation of Facebook Business Pages. As more people explore social media, social networking sites have become some of the key online sources they use to learn more about products, organizations, artists and world events. Marketing on Facebook has a viral effect – information spreads through networks exponentially.