Overview

Facebook is a free, popular social networking site. Facebook is a great way to communicate with people within one's Professional Learning Network, PLN for short. Facebook is also a great way to network with people outside of one's PLN.

Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerburg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. They launched Facebook in February 2004 specifically for Harvard students to socialize. Later, they gradually expanded it to include all college students. Come 2006, they decided to make it inclusive to anyone who was at least 13 years old! # Within Facebook, you connect with your friends, family and people with the same interests. You are then able to follow their posts. Posts can be images, words about the happenings of their daily lives, Memes, videos, etc. All of which, once posted are visible to your friend network.

Facebook also has pages that you can follow, created for groups, businesses, schools, etc. When following these pages, you get updates when they post information as well.