Facebook is currently the Internet’s largest social networks, although it was opened just 4 years ago, in February 2004. On Facebook, a free-access social networking website privately owned by Facebook Inc., users can join different networks, which are organized by criteria such as cities, workplaces, schools and others as such. Facebook is the new way to keep in touch with friends, neighbors and colleagues. The name is inspired from the covers of campus and school presentation leaflets given to prospective students, which show faces of current members.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, during the time he was a student at Harvard University. It was first deisgned to only allow Harvard students to join, yet it was later expanded to the whole Ivy League, only to end up open for the entire world, its database currently having over 120 million users.

Facebook is not kicking back, however, and is attempting to secure its reign as king of social networks for as long as possible. Recently, Facebook will let you take your friends with you while you surf the Web. These group-outings will be under close scrutiny, especially since Facebook has had a few run-ins with privacy concerns over the past year.

The new feature of the website is called Facebook Connect. With Facebook Connect, you will be able to use you Facebook user identification data to log onto other sites and monitor what your friends are doing on those websites or even let their friends know what they’re doing on those websites, in the framework of the respective website.

The initiative will also be used by MySpace, Yahoo and Google quite soon, in a collective attempt to further socialize the Web.