facebook in bangladesh (2)
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IN BANGLADESH
Prepared for:
Shenin ZiauddinLecturer
Department of Banking
University of Dhaka
Prepared by:
Faria Hossain Arthee ID No: 17011
Mohammad Mohi Uddin Bhuiyan ID No: 17032
Md. Imran Hossain ID No: 17053
Labony Akter ID No: 17062
Samira Kishoar ID No: 17073
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
History of Facebook
Facebook in Bangladesh
For the Likes
For the Dislikes
Funny Facts about Facebook
Conclusion
References
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Introduction
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February
2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011,
Facebook has more than 600 million active users. About 70 languages are
there in facebook including Bangla. Users may create a personal profile, add
other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic
notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join
common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or
other characteristics.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and
fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and
Chris Hughes.
Facebook is now the most popular and most visited social networking service
by worldwide monthly active users. People from different corners of the
world are using this website to connect with their family and friends, sharing
their day-to-day happenings, uploading their photos, bugging their friends,
sending them gifts, using facebook applications, chatting with others and so
on. Facebook has a number of features with which users may interact. They
include the Wall, a space on every user's profile page that allows friends to
post messages for the user to see; Pokes, which allows users to send a
virtual "poke" to each other; Photos where users can upload albums and
photos; Status, which allows users to inform their friends of their
whereabouts and actions. Users are notified about their friends activities via
Notification.
Users can set Privacy Settings as per their own wish. They can limit the group
of users who can see their profiles, photo albums, basic information, walls,
comments etc. They can also restrict certain users from tagging their photos,
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commenting on their statuses, wallposts and photos, sending messages and
friend requests.
Paul Butler, a facebook engineering intern, tried to create an image of the
locations of facebook users around the world through drawing glowing lights
in the world map and connecting them with one another with the same light.
As his visualization progressed, he realized it was creating a rough outline
of the world! The image of the Facebook World is given below:
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History of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg created facebook in October, 2003 while attending Harvard
as a sophomore. At first he named the site Facemash which included only
photos and basic information that he hacked from Harvards protected
computer networks and private dormitories. The Harvard administration shut
the site down soon and charged Zuckerberg for
breach of security and violating individual privacy.
But the charges were dropped and Zuckerberg
opened the site to his classmates as a social study
tool.
In February, 2004, Zuckerberg changed the name
of the site to Thefacebook. Initially its
membership was restricted to Harvard University.
Eduardo Saverin (business aspect), Dustin
Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew MacCollum
(graphic artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined
Zuckerberg to help promote the website and by
March, 2004, it soon opened to the other
universities of United States and Canada.
Thefacebook was incorporated in the summer of 2004 and the entrepreneur
Sean Parker became the companys president. The company dropped The
from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005. The
popularity of facebook began to spread rapidly as it expanded its membership
eligibility. In September, 2006, facebook was opened to everyone with age 13
and older with a valid e-mail address.
A graph of total active facebook users worldwide is shown below:
Mark Zuckerberg
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As of January, 2011, facebook has over 2,000 employees and offices in 15
countries. Formerly, other social networking sites, like, , ,
etc used to be the rivals of facebook. But now facebook is the most
popular website and it is considered one of the top 100 classic websites of the
world. is assumed to be the main rival of facebook now.
A number of Television dramas are made and books are published based on
facebook. The Social Network, a drama film about the founding of facebook,
was released in October 1, 2010. The movie was nominated for 8 academy
awards including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director, and won 2
Oscars.
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Facebook Users (in million)
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Facebookin Bangladesh
Facebook started its journey worldwide in 2004.
Its popularity spread among the Bangladeshi
people very quickly and by 2007, there were
about 300,000 facebook users in Bangladesh.
Now, there are more than 1.5 million facebook
users in the country, majority of which is
teenagers and young-adults. It is estimated that every one among five
Bangladeshi internet users has a facebook account. Based on the number of
facebook users, Bangladesh positions 59 among the countries of the world.
Only a few people can be found now in the urban areas of Bangladesh who
doesnt know about this social networking site. People are signing in to
facebook mainly to make new friends, to stay connected with their family and
friends and relatives, to spend their leisure time.
Facebookers
People who use facebook are commonly known as Facebookers. Maximum
facebookers of Bangladesh are young people whose age ranges from 18-24.
Teenagers, college going students, jobholders, retired officers- people from
different walks of life are opening facebook accounts, getting connected with
their friends, sharing their ideas, uploading their photos, chatting with each
other. Theyre sharing the stories of their lives through updating their
statuses, commenting on others walls, photos and statuses, sending
messages, tagging each other on their photos.
Most of the facebook users of Bangladesh are male. About 74% of the
facebookers are male while 26% facebook users are female. A graph is given
below showing the facebookers of Bangladesh by their age groups:
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Facebook is the most popular among the young generation. It has become a
media of fun and entertainment for them. They open facebook accounts to
stay connected with their friends as well as to make new friends. Sometimes
they
Add as Friend unknown people or even foreigners to communicate with
them. They always keep Poking each other, sending Gifts, using
various facebook Applications. Some youngsters log in to facebook just to
play various popular games, such as,
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13-17 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-65
User Age Distribution on Facebook in Bangladesh
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Business people and private firms sign up in facebook with a view to
promoting their products and services. They can build a Page or start a
Group and invite people to join. Thus they can also make people awareabout their organizations or business firms. People who are doing jobs are
also opening facebook accounts for making their workplace more convenient.
It is helping them to retain an effective communication with their superiors,
colleagues and juniors. If there is an urgent order or news that should be sent
to the employees, a facebook Message is all it is needed.
Facebookers are not only comprised of young users, but also old people-
though the number of elderly people using facebook is very low in
Bangladesh. This generation of people signs up in facebook to connect with
their old friends and relatives. Especially after their retirement, they find it
difficult to pass their leisure hours. Facebook helps them to stay connected
with their friends, many of these senior people even found friends of their
school-lives via facebook. It also offers them a chance to communicate with
their relatives living at different places of the country or abroad.
Bangla Version of Facebook
Grameenphone, the largest market player in telecommunication sector of the
country,has taken initiative to introduce Bangla version of Facebook.
Language
barrier is
one of the
mainobstacles to
the spread of
internet use
in
Bangladesh,
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so they are doing the job for the benefit of the Bangla-speaking people who
regularly use the site.They will be able to use Bangla not only in updating
statuses and writing comments, but also will see every single sentence in
Bangla that is now commonly seen in English. Facebook authority is
communicating with Bangla language experts for its proper application.
Bangla on facebook will encourage others to generate more Bangla contents
for Internet users.
Controversies Regarding Facebook
On May 30, 2010, facebook was temporarily banned in Bangladesh for
publishing satirical images of Prophet Muhammad (SM). The government had
blocked access to the site for the reason of hurting the religious sentiments of
the country's majority Muslim population by carrying offensive images of
Muhammad (SM). Some links in the site also contained obnoxious images of
Bangladeshi political leaders including Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, current Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina and the leader of the opposition party Begum Khaleda
Zia. Two men were arrested on these regard by Rapid Action Battalion inDhaka. On June 6, 2010, Bangladesh restored access to facebook after those
pages were erased and the offending images were removed.
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For the likes
In many ways, Facebook has impacted on the social life and activity of people.
One of such impacts is with the ability to reunite lost family members and
friends.
Facebookhas completely redefined the term friend. Its like the Greeks
definition of love. There are 4 types: Agape (brotherly love), Eros (passionate
love), Philia (friendship), and Storge (familial love). In the Facebook world,
there are also 4 types:
1. Old friends from high school and college.
2. Family and friends of the family.
3. Internet friends youve never met in person but you truly admire.
4. People you dont remember but you accepted their requestbecause you
had like, 30 mutual friends.
Social InteractionWhen it comes with communication, digital communities like Facebook hits
the number one spot. It can allow it users to track down long lost friends,
acquaintances and relatives that they haven't seen for years. Users are able to
meet new groups and to interact with their likes and dislikes. This can also be
a perfect gateway for love to bloom in a dating process.
Student Connection
Since Facebook is popular with the younger masses due to similar interests
and habits, it also opens a door for connecting student organizations and
ideas. Organizations can post on their walls updates regarding upcoming
events and gatherings.
Economy
Companies can advertise their products and in return for the space provided
by the site, the advertisers pay a certain amount of money enabling the site to
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raise revenue. Most of the advertisements posted are aimed for the majority of
Facebook's population which is mainly students of all kinds. It's a win-win
situation.
Photo sharing
One of Facebooks greatest strengths, the photo sharing feature is a great
advantage for many. Photos can be uploaded to Facebook with ease and this
can be achieved directly from a mobile phone too. The user can organize the
photos into albums and set restrictions as to who can see the photos and who
cannot. The photo sharing feature also features a comment which is very
innovative method of conversing with pictures and opinionating them.
Facebook by large has a lot of advantages over other social networking media
which have contributed to its success. Its aesthetic feel is also one of its
strengths and as mentioned before, everyone has a different take to Facebook
and uses it to their own specific advantages. This flexibility of use that
Facebook offers makes it highly customizable for professionals as well as
personal use making it one of the best communication mediums available
today.
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For TheDislikes
Facebook has been criticized for many things, but mostly for being a source of
destruction that can turn Facebook users into real social networking addicts.
Stalking people, hacking into
accounts, getting too much involved
with unknown people and being
deprived from real life are some of
the broadly recognized negative
effects of Facebook. Last year,
Facebook was temporarily banned in
the country on charges of malicious
propaganda against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and hurting religious
feelings.
Less Social Interaction With The Real World
It is obvious that people have a lot of friends in Facebook, but how often do
they interact with them in the real world? Social skills are very important in
the world we live in. Being able to hold conversations and relate to other
people helps people not only in their business lives but also in their daily lives.
But these people using Facebook are becoming addicted and dependent upon
this social network. These addicts are using Facebook as another excuse,
upon the many, as a reason why they are constantly hunched over their
computers. If these people continue to constantly use these social networks
as their primary means of communicating, their social skills will slowly
diminish and their daily lives will be drastically altered.
Reduce The Time For Study
The greatest motivating factor for students to use technology is to connect to
others; to socialize. Their irresistible need to connect with their peers,
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coupled with the development of 24/7 accessible technologies, can make the
use of sites like Facebook all consuming. This also reduces the time for their
study which could lead to an adverse effect in their education.
Addiction at its worst...
Affecting Emotions & Relationships
Because Facebook adapts a free-flowing information environment, some usesit to target on other's emotional depression. Targeting the emotions may
cause a negative attitude towards a person's social relationship, physical
activity, and academic issues. Talk about long distance relationships,
Facebook would be the one answer friends, family and lovers can count on.
Though conducted on a distance, the system can still connect relationships
right that very moment. But because relationships are built and strengthened
just because of an Internet site, it tends to become weaker and it supports less
emotional and most especially physical contact.
Affecting Privacy
Another negative effect of Facebook is how accessible it makes people. Once
one has signed up for a Facebook account, they have made themselves
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completely exposed to the world. Anyone who wants to find out anything
about them will be able to find it on Facebook. Facebook can also affect
someone when trying to join a club or finding a new job. Many organizations
and business now include social networking sites like Facebook in
their background checks of potential members and employees. They'll be able
to see all of their information, age, location, education and works, relationship
status. Plus they may judge by looking at the pictures posted friends.
Unfortunately most people don't realize that Facebook opens up their identity
to millions of people and some of these may use what they find against them.
Applications in Facebook tend to take up unnecessary timeOne of the most addictive things on Facebook is all of the games that are
available. People waste hours upon hours playing games against their friends
instead of doing work or spending time with their family.
So, it's not everything wrong about Facebook. In many cases, we can catch up
with old friends, find valuable information, promote work and business,
support really important causes and meet people who can be real friends in
the process. What is wrong with Facebook is the ritualistic involvement thatturns into addiction and belligerently deprives people from their real life by
triggering them to log on several times a day.
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References
1. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia2. All Facebook, the unofficial facebook resource3. Socialbakers, heart of facebook statistics4. Facebook.com5. The World Factbook