Facebook to Focus on User Sharing Capability

Facebook to Focus on User Sharing Capability

According to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the social networking site is gearing towards expanding its users capability to share personal infromation. Zuckerberg believes information sharing is vital to the growth of the site as it has shown a considerable progress since it was introduced.


Zuckerberg said in a statement, "When we first started, people were relatively less comfortable sharing a lot of information. Early on there were a lot of questions, like 'should I put my full name on Facebook?' and 'should I put my mobile phone number on Facebook?', and a lot of what got people over that hump were privacy controls so they were sharing that information with just the people they wanted."



He also added, "When there was only a little information that people could post, people would update their profile maybe once a month or every couple of months. Then we added things like photos and groups and the updates became more regular like once a week, once every couple of days, and now with status updates and all the different applications that people are using, the rate is increasing so much. Now most people probably update stuff on a daily basis."



Facebook's move to reshape is aligned with the concept of giving its users the opportunity to communicate fully through sharing personal information.



Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites nowadays, The site allows users to create profiles including photos and lists of personal interests, exchange private or public messages, and join groups of friends. It is a free-access web site, but generates revenue from advertising, including banner ads.