[1] Facebook is the world’s largest social
network, with 800 million users worldwide as
of September 2011.
More than any other company, it has
[5] defined what …….. see as the “social’' era of
the Internet, in which connections made
among people replace algorithm-driven
searches. And its policies, more than any
others, seem to be driving the definition of
[10] privacy in this new age.
Every day, Facebook users comment or
press the “like” button more than 2 billion
times and upload more than 250 million
photos. The McKinsey Global Institute has
[15] estimated that the network’s users post 30
billion pieces of content …….. month
The company, founded in 2004 by a
Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg, began
life catering first to Harvard students and then
[20] to all high school and college students. It has
since evolved into a broadly popular online
destination used by teenagers and adults of
all ages. In country after country, Facebook
has cemented itself as the leader, often
[25] displacing other social networks.
It is …….. surprise that Facebook has
become one of the titans of the Internet,
challenging even Google with its vision of a
Web tied together by personal relationships
[30] and recommendations, rather than by search
algorithms. In a major expansion, Facebook
has spread itself across other Web sites by
offering members the chance to “Like”
something — share it with their network —
[35] without leaving the Web page they are on.
At the Facebook developer conference in
September, the company announced the
release of a product called Timeline, which
offers a highly visual view of a user’s
[40] Facebook profile and organizes content into
photos, events and apps, all based on a
timeline view that stretches back to the
beginning of a user’s time on Facebook.
Timeline is designed to work on mobile
[45] devices, too.
Adaptado de: WYLD, Adrian. Facebook. Disponível em: http://topics.nytimes.com>. Acesso em: 01 dez. 2011.
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