Week 6: Group Project (Facebook)
https://about.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-partners/
Facebook is an important social media app that is used by many people around the world. Facebook allows users to post things from text, to photos, to videos which allows the user to express themselves and other people can see this. It has become an app that even companies use when trying to hire people, I have heard of some companies doing a background search on potential employees by checking their Facebook account and seeing if there is anything that they had done wrong in the past that might suggest that they are not someone they want to hire. Facebook was founded by "Mark Zuckerberg while he was a student at Harvard" (Wikipedia), which shows that people can create things if they set their minds to it. Facebook originally started out for Harvard students only, then it spread to Ivy League Colleges, then it was open to all colleges. A few years after Facebook was developed, they released a public version of Facebook to anyone that is over the age of thirteen (Wikipedia). Facebook is good for people today in age because most people are using a smartphone and have Facebook, which allows people to connect with others. It helps people stay in touch with friends, like when people graduate high school and go to college. Facebook can be used to speak freely, which goes along with the First Amendment, so it can be an important platform in today's society with the use of digital media. Facebook changed its policy on hate speech after a campaign against them for having advertisements that were negative towards women. This is a way that is limiting the First Amendment on Facebook, and this is also the first incident with any kind of speech on Facebook. Facebook has recently gone under investigation for stifling smaller competitors. Facebook is also a way for people to share their opinions or event that have happened with others. This is important because users are able to see these and see the other side of the story or to see more details about events that have happened, unlike news media that can be biased and share only one aspect with people. Facebook also has advertisements for smaller and less know news sites, which can help smaller news companies and those companies might have less bias than more well-known news sites. Facebook had also been under investigation for user privacy, and advertisements on Facebook use people's information to determine what to show them through targeted advertisements (Wikipedia).
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