Facebook

Facebook lets you post updates and photos, keep in touch with people you know, view their profiles, and follow pages and communities of all kinds.

Share your experiences on the social network

Social networking is a concept that existed before the advent of the internet. With the spread of the internet, first in schools and workplaces and then in the home, they have evolved in the online world to where we know it today. Much of the credit for this rests with Mark Zuckerberg and the company he runs from Silicon Valley's Menlo Park: none other than Facebook, a social network that has evolved into an internet ecosystem in its own right, rivaling a giant like Google can when it comes to information management.

The window to the Internet for millions of users

It has become the medium through which users from all over the world access the Internet: all the content they consume is made available to them via this social network, which they also use to keep in touch with their friends and acquaintances , read the news, watch videos or check the weather forecast.

The most important features

• One can check the activities of friends and family and meet new people.
• Users can update their status and communicate with emoticons.
• You can share photos, videos, documents or the best memories that the social network shows users from the past few years.
• It displays notifications about the activities generated by the user's posts.
• Allows to comment on other users' boards, write comments and reply to others.
• Displays local social events so users can find out what's going on in their area and attend if interested.
• Contains built-in games to play against other Facebook users right in the interface.
• Allows you to organize your photos into albums, which also serve as a backup.
• You can choose to keep the photos private, set up a secret album, or control who can see them.
• In addition to personal profiles, users can also follow companies, brands, celebrities, sports teams, artists or websites to stay up to date on their activities.
• Local businesses such as restaurants, bars or shops can display their opening hours, photos of items and customer reviews.
• Users can stream video feeds or view their contacts' feeds.
• On the Facebook marketplace, users can buy and sell items of all kinds between users in the area.
• It includes Messenger's Rooms option, which allows you to invite or join a group of up to 50 people on a video call.

Although we know that Facebook doesn't have the same appeal as it did years ago and that new generations prefer to use other ways of communicating and interacting with others, such as TikTok or Instagram Stories, the blue social network continues to lead in absolute terms. Millions of people still access it every day to keep in touch with their friends, share updates and follow the communities they like the most or the shops they visit regularly. The 'like', 'love' or 'annoys me' are far from gone.

What's new in the current version?

• What's new in the latest version is limited to bug fixes and some stability and speed improvements.

Requirements and further information:

• Minimum operating system requirements: Android 6.0.