Facebook is one of the largest social networking sites on the internet with more than 60 million registered members. 60% of them login daily and 85% login at least once a week. According to Chris Hughes, spokesman for Facebook, "People spend an average of 19 minutes a day on Facebook."

Facebook is also a framework for developers (that would be us!) who build applications that interact with the core functionalities of this website for marketing and service delivery purposes. A facebook application can either be exclusive to the facebook platform, or instead bridge a free standing website on the internet to the facebook social network.

Technical Information

Facebook applications are no more different from other types of web applications, therefore in order to build one for facebook, we use the same frameworks that we use for any other web software projects such as Joomla! CMS , Drupal CMS , or Ruby on Rails .