Another link through Facebook

Keeping up with the times, Indian Newslink is now on Facebook.

This makes the newspaper easily accessible to people who are net savvy.

You can join the group and contribute your opinion on the forums that will be started within in the Group. As you must be aware, Facebook has reached millions across the world in less than six years of its inception.

Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

Indian Newslink will use this new networking tool to reach you continuously and provide an opportunity for faster communication with the larger world community.

According to Wikipedia, Facebook is a social networking website operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organised by city, workplace, school, and region.

The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.

The website’s membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was  expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University.

It later expanded to include any university student, then high school students and finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 350 million active users worldwide.

A January 2009, a compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.

Recent reports said Facebook was proposing an initial public offering (IPO) of equity shares in the form of stock to investors. However, Zuckerberg said that it would not be for a few more years, and the company is in no need of additional capital.

You can join as a friend of Newslink Venkat or just join the group Indian Newslink by typing the following in the address bar of your web browser.  

http://www.facebook.com/facebook?ref=pf#/group.php?gid=226796549116

You can also use the following Newslink Venkat on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000651930580

Rachana Trivedi is an Indian Newslink reader living in Auckland.