World Of Facebook With Shangrila

For many of its 300 million enthusiasts,Facebook is a convenient way to keep in touch with friends,track down old sweethearts and share drunken photigraphs with the world.But the global power of the social networking site is now being harnessed for a rather more laudable aim: the puesuit of world peace.

A joint project between Facebook and the Persuassive Technology Lab at Stanford University-called "peace.facebook.com"-is trying to bring together opposing sides in some of the most bitterly divided areas of te planet,encouraging online friendship between Jews and Muslims, US liberals and conservatives, and Turks and Greeks.

By tracking Facebook friendship and crunching the numbers,the site provides a daily snapshot of who is talking to whom and where.On october 28 peace.facebook.com revealed that over the previous 24 hours,there had been 7,339 India-pakistan connections;13,790 Greece-Turkey connections,and 5,158 Israel-Palestine connections.

A click on the button for religious contact showed that over the same 24 hours,there had been 53,100 christians and atheists in touch with eaother,1,250 Muslims and Jews talking and 667 Sunni-Shia connections.In the US meanwhile,the number of conservative-liberal connections was 27,896.

Everyday,the site also asks tousands of Facebook users te same question: Do you think we will achieve world peace within 50 years?

The answers: broken down by Country-reveal fluctuating geographic levels of optimism.facebook says it is proud to be doing its bit for world peace by using technology to"help people better understand each other". A statement on its website adds,"By enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their ideas, we can decrease world conflict in the short and long term."

BJ Fogg,director of he Persuasive Technology Lab and a pioneer in the field of using conputer technology to influence people,said the Facebook page was just one component of a larger Stanford University project called Peace Innovation.

The peace Dot initiative,of which the Facebook page is part,aims to encourage people to create web pages using the peace.19 very different groups have signed up to the Peace Dot project,registering addresses ranging from peace.couchsurfing.org to peace.dalailamafoundation.org and even peace.safeway.com. Fogg said he was confident "substantial global peace" could be brought about in the next 30 years.

"the process for increasing world peace is innovation,"he said."Lots of it.there's no single answer,no single solution.Together we must innovative to create more empathy,understanding tolerance,and so on."

"we must innovetive to help people everywhere have basic needs met,like access to clean water. these are the roots of Peace.we can create new ways to strengthen these roots of peace." The list of Peace Dot sites,he said,is "evidence of what works and inspiration."

Facebook, by some measurements the most popular social network with more than 200 million active users worldwide, is one of the fastest-growing and best-known sites on the Internet today.
The company, founded in 2004 by a Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg, began life catering first to Harvard students and then to all high school and college students. It has since evolved into a broadly popular online destination used by both teenagers and adults of all ages.

Like other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances. It has distinguished itself from rivals, partly by imposing a spartan design ethos and limiting how users can change the appearance of their profile pages. That has cut down on visual clutter and threats like spam, which plague rival social networks. In May 2007, Facebook unveiled an initiative called Facebook Platform, inviting third-party software makers to create programs for the service and to make money on advertising alongside them. The announcement stimulated the creation of hundreds of new features or "social applications" on Facebook , from games to new music and photo sharing tools, which had the effect of further turbo-charging activity on the site.

In its seemingly constant quest to redesign itself, Facebook now has two ways to see what your friends have been up to all day. Just click on the Home link after logging into your Facebook account.

Click on Live Feed to see a real-time stream of all the things your friends are doing on Facebook at that very moment. The News Feed, on the other hand, is more of an aggregated highlight tour of what Facebook thinks are the most interesting things your friends have been up to lately on the site.

If you haven’t logged in for a while, the News Feed may give you a more general summary of your friends’ universe, while the Live Feed may be more satisfying for those who stay logged in all day and want frequent updates. You can customize either feed by using the Hide button to remove updates from certain people or applications. Just wave the mouse over the right side of the update to see the Hide button appear

Every user on Facebook has two feeds. There's a personal feed, which you'll find on your profile page along with your photo and list of interests. Every time you log a status update, comment, or video post, that interaction is captured and stored for your review; those changes also become fodder for a second news feed that runs on your home page, the first page you see when you log on to the site.

That feed keeps tabs on all the interactions your friends are having (and alerts friends to updates you've made on your personal feed). If your brother RSVP'd to a dinner party, for example, you might be notified about it, even if you weren't invited to attend. And if you change your profile photo, it may let your brother know. Like Facebook itself, the feeds are subject to the network effect: The more data you share and interact with, the more robust your news feed becomes.