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About the Facebook Project
The Facebook Project... has changed.
Originally started as a sociology research project by Jeff Ginger, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, the endeavor has expanded to include several researchers, students, librarians, and enthusiasts who all have an important interest in common: Facebook.
This website is a hub to our intellect. Our efforts are specialized and yet reflect a measure of cognitive diversity; our collective aim is to help visitors better document, understand, and employ Facebook.com and its many impacts and implications. We hope to provide through this website an effective resource for researchers, educators, and librarians. The persons involved come from backgrounds including anthropology, sociology, library and information science, human-computer interactions, psychology, and more. Each contributor has his or her own areas of study and all of us join forces in shared interests.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In case you were wondering, We've collected some of the common questions people have about the project. These include questions of salience, scope, and involvement. Please check them out before emailing with any questions.
Quick Facts on Facebook
This page includes a gathering of remarkable facts and information you might have never known about Facebook.com! Please take a look and pitch in to ensure the information presented is both accurate and up to date.
What is Facebook?
Facebook identifies itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you."
Seem like an insufficient explanation? I agree. There's a lot of contention as to what exactly Facebook is and what it should be. For those unfamiliar with the system, understanding how it works and why it works is crucial to comprehending its importance in every day student (and more) life.
Being the believer in heterogeneous engineering that I am, I've opened up a wiki page so we as a collaborative internet scholar community can ask the right questions and give the right definition to Facebook.
The Wiki also contains a list of the current features of Facebook as well as a bit of a history on old ones. The difference between this wiki and the Facebook What's New section is that we'll have considerably more earnest descriptions of the features as well as some of their common uses.