Inside Secrets: How Facebook Works?
Hey Facebookies, since how long have you been Facebooking? Well to be precise, Facebook has been there for you since eight years but have you ever wondered how Facebook works? What’s behind that fancy curtain? OK! Its not a ‘How-To guide’ to use Facebook but we are talking about its architecture.
Have you ever been curious about whats lying behind Facebook? And how Facebook really works? Then lets talk some tech now.
How Facebook Works In Spotlight?
Facebook utilize lots of services and programming languages to work. To be precise, Facebook servers use LAMP with Memcache. Hey, we are not talking about the table lamps! Basically LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Its understood that you need more explanation on those complex terms if you are not a techie.
Linux & Apache
If you are fortunate enough to see that black dolphin logo ever on WWW then you certainly know Linux. Well, its an open-source UNIX-like kernel for ‘Operating Systems’ and why Facebook use Linux is because of its high security and its ease of customization according to needs. Apache is considered as the best and most popular HTTP server – No wonder why Facebook use Apache.
MySQL
Ok! so far we know that Facebook works using Linux OS and Apache servers. What about the database where huge amounts of data, including the Facebookies personal data, is stored? This is where MySQL makes entry because its reliable and speedy as well.
Cutsomize Facebook Profile By Installing Different Themes
Facebook is a very fast growing social network on internet. You can interact with your friends and family through Facebook and do lots of exciting and fun stuff on the social networking website.
Design and Outlook:
The traditional Facebook Profile is very simple and interactive having white background with a combination of blue color in headers and borders. Facebook lacks the feature of having the freedom to customize the profile and the users cannot change its overall outlook including the themes. Many other social networks like orkut provide this feature of customizing the profile and changing the themes as per like of the users.
Bored with Your Current Profile Outlook?
If you are really bored with your current Facebook profile and its theme and want to make your Facebook profile outlook really attractive and funky, then there is a solution for this now.
Personalize Your Facebook Profile
Facebook is social networking site launched in February 2004. The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg and he founded it with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes Popularity and circle of Facebook is growing day by day as more and more are joining it.
Good Things About Facebook:
Some good things about Facebook are that you can easily create and maintain your profile. You can daily update your status. In your profile, you can write about relationship status, political views, religion, activities, hobbies, interests, favorite music, favorite movies, favorite TV shows, favorite quotations, favorite books, about me information, contact details and education and work.
The best thing about it is easy interaction with friends and best privacy policy. You can add many applications to your profile with an easy way to access. Invite your friends and family members to groups; share your photos, links and videos with them.
Simple Design:
The boring thing about Facebook is that it got very simple design and that is white background with blue margins. No additional themes are available for it as compared to other social networking sites like Orkut, to give your Facebook profile a new and unique look.
How Facebook is Harmful to Your Relationships?
The social drug, Facebook, has affected friendships, marriages and sibling relationships. But wait, do you really feel that Facebook to blame for all such destruction? Elders always suggested hiding dirty laundry from public. Facebook is doing against it. It’s not new to hear that the blame of violating the sanctity of marriages, increased complications in dating relationships, pumping sibling rivalry and employment loss is on the Facebook. The question is that, is it right to put blame on Facebook for all these social problems? That’s because every user is responsible for their action. Facebook users must understand the nature of Facebook to protect their personal relations from destruction caused by Facebook.
“Jealousy” that is bred by Facebook between Lovers, Siblings and Friends
The major concern related to Facebook is the promotion of bragging. Majority of users express themselves and their thoughts in their status message, posts and comments. Happy people express happiness and other activities of their lives that could be fascinating for their unhappy friends. As a result, jealousy breeds among relations. The problem of jealousy becomes worse when it comes to love matters. A wife may become jealous of her husband’s attention to internet. A boy may be jealous of other male friends on his girlfriend’s friend list. The situation can become more painful and annoying because of private messages, naughty comments from other people etc. All these things just bring insecurity and jealousy between two people. Read More
Facebook Privacy Tips
Facebook has come a long way since its birth and has corrected all the flaws which were found at first. However, till today one thing which has faced the highest criticism from the users of Facebook is about it’s privacy laws. Privacy of the information which users put on their profiles is of immense importance and need’s to be kept highly confidential. But due to involvement by third parties who work with Facebook, they were allowed to access the information posted by users which is against the laws of privacy. Law states that if any information is being provided by an individual to another company then it should remain confidential.
Individuals put up their personal information on their profiles to share it with their friends and family, however if that information is being accessed by someone else who is not in their friends list then that is a major point of concern. The owner of facebook stated that all privacy settings are now in the hands of the users and they can choose which information should be displayed to the public and which needs to kept private. Read More
Facebook Facts
Facebook is a giant phenomenon that has taken on the entire world by storm. A site build by a university student, Mark Zuckerberg just for his Harvard mates, in 2003, later turned on to be this revolutionary site of Facebook, and which also made Mark as the youngest billionaire of all times.
Have you ever considered of the various risks that your posing yourself to when using facebook? If you are planning to register on facebook there are some facts that you need to know and understand. If you are already an existing user, then its better that you deactivate your account rather than creating more problem for your life.
The factors that makes facebook dangerous is listed below:
Addiction: Facebook is now not just a mere website, but an addiction for thousands of people who spend day and nights before the computer screen just playing games on FB, chatting uselessly away, poking their friends, getting into weird groups and the list is endless. An average person spends more than an hour per day on facebook.
