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Despite the need to communicate, Facebook may not be the perfect networking tool for many non-students just yet. At this point, much of the grammar of the site (as well as much of the first wave of applications) are still tilted toward student life. David Rodnitzky, 35, a San Francisco marketing executive, was having a fine time on Facebook until he installed a widget called "My Questions." Unbeknownst to him, it sent out a query to people on his friend list, specifically: "Do you kiss on the first date?" "Here I was, asking some of my company's venture capitalists, along with some of my guy friends, if they kiss on the first date," says Rodnitzky. "Probably not the best way to interact." Nor is it clear whether grown-ups embrace the new SuperPoke third-party application: instead of a mere poke (the equivalent of saying "hey you" online) you can bite, slap, bump, spank, lick, grope or head-butt friends, acquaintances and, uh, business colleagues.
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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
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When Facebook first launched in February 2004, there were three important things that you could do on the site. You could create a profile with your picture and information, view other people's profiles, and add people as friends. The site ... featured ugly dotted borders and strangely aligned labels. Back then, the site was only available at Harvard, so "friends" was really something more like "friends currently attending Harvard."
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Facebook is made up of many networks - individual schools, companies or regions. To join Facebook, people can authenticate into a school or work network, or they can join a regional network. They can then create profiles to connect with friends, share interests, join groups, send messages, writes notes and post photos.
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Last week, Facebook launched a Spanish version of the site that for the first time allows hispanohablantes anywhere to sign up and browse the site in their native language. And now, anyone on Facebook can set their language preference for their account as well as select a language for sending invites to their friends.
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Facebook may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message or poke, or someone posts on your wall, you may receive an email alerting you to that fact.
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