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Facebook is a social networking website. This is a list of features that can be found on the Facebook website. Basic features include friend networking with others and posting on a "wall" or "commenting" on pictures.
Features
Publisher
Publisher is the main feature to post information and messages which appear on the users own Wall, on their friends Walls, as well as the News Feed on the Home page.. Facebook Developer Wiki. Retrieved 2009-08-30. . Facebook Help Center>Home Page. Retrieved 2009-08-30. It appears at the top of the Home page, Profile Wall page as well as friends Wall page. For the user there is a 420 character limit, with a 1000 character limit when posting on a friends Wall. In comparison, Twitter has a 140 character limit.
News Feed
On 6 September 2006, Ruchi Sanghvi announced a new home page feature called News Feed. Originally, when users logged into Facebook, they were presented with a customizable version of their own profile. The new layout, by contrast, created an alternate home page in which users saw a constantly updated list of their friends Facebook activity. News Feed highlights information that includes profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays, among other updates. News Feed also shows conversations taking place between the walls of a users friends. An integral part of the News Feed interface is the Mini-Feed, a news stream on the users profile page that shows updates about that user. Unlike in the News Feed, the user can delete events from the Mini-Feed after they appear so that they are no longer visible to profile visitors.
Initially, the addition of the News Feed caused some discontent among Facebook users. Many users complained that the News Feed was too cluttered and full of undesired information. Others were concerned that the News Feed made it too easy for other people to track activities like changes in relationship status, events, and conversations with other users. This tracking is often read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook+features
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