The Use of Facebook in Classrooms

It was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was a student. Facebook helps the youth and any other user updated with what is happening around the world, help the teenagers stay connected and interact with each other even if they are many miles apart. Facebook also strengthens people’s relationship when we cannot live close to others but we can connect and update information to one another any time. Facebook became most popular social networking around worldwide and now have more one billion users. Facebook is like a friend with someone, they cannot pass a day without checking

Mark Zuckerberg actually makes the world smaller and change the way people keep in touch since Facebook helps people connect and share with the others in their life. For example, the students can not only connect and find their old school friends or college friends but also connect with their relatives. Facebook aslo has billions users so people can make new friends on Facebook from different areas of world. They can connect with friends by using Facebook chat, messages, poke, group. Therefore, everyone can take advantage of Facebook to maintain relationship and communications with each other. For example, Facebook lauched new feature called “Safety Check” after Paris multiple terror attacks in order for people in Paris can let their network know they are alive on Friday after at least 128 were feared killed (Olivia, 2015). Facebook aslo help a California mother reunite with her teenage son who was kidnapped 15 years ago thanks to an old family photograph posted to Facebook (Kayleigh Dray, 2015). The second advantages of Facebook is that user can get relaxed with high number of great online games and interesting applications such as Candy Crush Saga or Clash of Clans as they are bored or unhappy . A recent research has shown that over 375 million Facebook users play games each month ( Chris Taylor, 2014). The third advantage of Facebook is that people can get the good information or useful guides which are shared everyday on Facebook. For example,RES English school `s fanpage (https://www.facebook.com/resvietnam) often posts free english lessons or tips on their timeline. Moreover, Facebook users can stay updated with latest news and information which is displayed on new feeds such as the anouncement from university or new big promotions recently launched. For example, the teachers would like to inform their students about something changed to

Facebook was made with good intentions by Harvard student, Mark Zuckerburg and fellow roommates in February of 2004. The site was designed for the school campus to share educational ideas. Later, access to Facebook opened up to Ivy League schools and then to all U.S. college universities. Eventually, Facebook caught on with gaining worldwide popularity, there is even a movie about the social networking giant. Tech savvy teens

Facebook is a major social networking site that connects users through text, post, and video all over the world. It was created by Mark Zuckerberg on February 4, 2004 at Cambridge, Massachusetts. It now has about 1 billion users and has grown to become the second most popular site ever. Facebook has enabled many people to communicate and share things online like never before. In can also raise support or awareness for a cause through facebook. This of course shows

Formerly known as Facemash, Facebook’s initial purpose was to collect side-by-side photos of female Harvard students and allow students to vote who was more attractive. Facemash became instantly popular and gained innovators attention (Phillips). What started as a college student’s hobby soon became famous and was later innovated to become a social networking site, Facebook. By September 2006, Facebook developed into an inclusive social networking site and allowed the public to register personal profiles that helps people stay in touch online. Today, Facebook is a free social networking website that allows users to create public profiles where they can upload photos and videos, send messages, and keep in touch with their friends and family.

Facebook is the biggest social media network on the internet with a massive following which continues to expand. Mark Zuckerberg alongside his college roommates created and launched the world’s most popular social media site on 4 February, 2004. Zuckerberg previously developed other sites for fellow students to

In the early years during the inception stage, Facebook was a program / website known as thefacebook.

Though SNSs have attained remarkable popularity, Facebook has become the most popular, particularly among people of ages 17 to 25 (Melber, 2008). Recent studies indicate that the number of older users is increasing rapidly (Kirkpatrick, 2009), but currently more than 90% of college students have a Facebook account (Haywoode, 2010; Loveland, 2011). Thus, the substantial number of college students using this technology has compelled many educators to wonder if there are potential benefits for the use of Facebook to support education.

FB is an online social networking service that was established in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg along with four Harvard University roommates. Before FB, Zuckerberg had created an online program titled "Facemash" which was a quasi-dating site that was accessible only to Harvard students. To upload student’s pictures to Facemash, Zuckerberg hacked into protected areas of Harvard's computer system and copied private ID images. This site didn't last long as it was shut down days later by Harvard administrators who alleged, but later dropped, charges of breach

Social media has taken the world by storm. Facebook currently has more than 1 billion active users, which is three times the number of people who live in the US. With so many people using Facebook it comes to no surprise that it has been made to have a negative influence from concerns over privacy, to people spending hours on the site and ultimately becoming addicted to it. But Facebook can also be a useful tool when used correctly, it helps people stay in touch, make new friends and it cures boredom.

Originated in Cambridge, MA, on February 4, 2004, Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes. Mark Zuckerberg says he created Facebook because, “…. my goal was to help people understand what was going on in their world a little better. I wanted to create an environment where people could share whatever information they wanted, but also have control over whom they shared that information with” (Zuckerberg). Facebook already had about twelve hundred to fifteen hundred users a day after it was launched in Harvard University.

On February 4th, 2004, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) launched Facebook. Facebook is a social media website that connects people from all around the world. Facebook initially limited the website 's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old is allowed to become a registered user of the website.

Social networking sites have revolutionised communication, and are now one of the main sources of communication used today. Facebook was created in 2004 by Harvard student Mark Zuckerburg, and is estimated to have over 175 million members (Hovi, Pitkanen, Tuunainen, 2009).

While there are some applications designed specifically for educational communication, such as Class Dojo, I selected Facebook for several reasons. First, the majority of students are already using it as is visible with an observation of students before and after class and during breaks and this phenomenon transcends age and language group. Students from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, young and middle aged are already frequenting the Facebook world, but in their first language. Miron and Ravid (2014), in their Facebook Groups as an Academic Teaching Aid: Case

The use of social media in classrooms has always been a very controversial topic. Hence not all the parents were happy that Ms. White had been using Facebook to communicate with her students. Even though Ms. White had timelessly repeated her good intentions she could not escape the ruthlessness of some of the more conservative parents. Today, however, was the day of the monthly Communicating our Word to Better Education school meeting. This month’s meeting was a discussion, to most a debate, on whether or not Jameson Middle School should continue to use Facebook in the classroom.