Social Facebook Website, Upgrades Design
Palo Alto, California – (Website Hosting Directory) – April 17, 2007 – Social utility portal, Facebook, has debuted new messaging functionality and redesigned its website to simplify navigation, launching more than 47,000 network portal pages to aggregate information.
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook remarked, ”Facebook is a technology company with a highly iterative development process and we’re constantly improving how the site works,” said “Our goal with the latest changes is to help users navigate the site more easily and share information more efficiently.”
Several weeks prior to launching the new functionality, Facebook created a group on the site called ‘Facebook Sneak Preview’ and released screenshots to foster discussion among users about the improvements. More than 100,000 users joined the group to comment and share their feedback. Various user suggestions were incorporated into the final products, including adding more network- specific statistics and the ability to control if an event or group is publicized on the network page.
Facebook has more than 47,000 networks worldwide for different regions, companies and schools. Users on Facebook can affiliate with one or more networks that connect them with people who are part of their real-world social networks. A network portal page shows popular public events and public groups that are formed by users. Each page contains basic metrics about the network, such as number of members and gender breakdown. More granular metrics, such as political views and the relationship status of users, are also displayed in percentages. Network-wide statistics are aggregated from information that users choose to list in their profiles.
Facebook simplified navigation on the site to give users easier access to core functions and applications. Profile, Friends, Networks and Inbox – pages core to the user experience on Facebook – have been moved to a more prominent place at the top of the profile page. Facebook applications – Photos, Notes, Groups, Events and Posted items – are now displayed on the left side bar.
Founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook was developed so that people could better understand the world around them by developing technologies that facilitate the spread of information through social networks. The site has nearly 19 million active users in over 47,000 geographic, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks, and according to ComScore’s MediaMetrix report, Facebook ranks as the sixth-most trafficked site in the United States. Facebook is privately held and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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