Last Updated on September 5, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake
Facebook (facebook.com) is a social media site founded by Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook is owned by the parent company Meta Platforms. Meta Platforms is also the parent company of Instagram and Threads. Most people in the world are signed up to at least one of the Meta Platforms sites. Similar sites to Facebook include Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit.
ALTERNATIVES
Similar sites to facebook.com include twitter.com, instagram.com, reddit.com, t.co, pinterest.com, linkedin.com, tiktok.com, google.com, discord.com, and youtube.com.
DESCRIPTION
After creating a user account, the homepage showed a post box to share what was on my mind. Beneath that was a feed, consisting of recent posts from the publications/pages that I followed. The posts often consisted of several images and little text above them. The engagement was high, often with hundreds of likes per post. At the top of the right column next to the feed was an ad. Beneath the ad was a widget for my pages and profiles. Beneath that again were my contacts which showed me the people I had friended on the site. The left column showed me shortcuts to my pages and a link back to my profile, as well as numerous other links such as to my friends. At the top of my feed were four icons: Home, Friends, Video, and Marketplace. The video link showed nothing but video content, similar to Instagram Reels. The marketplace link showed items that other Facebook users had for sale that I could buy. 6/15/2024
HISTORY
As of November 2023, facebook.com has 16.1 billion monthly views, according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates that facebook.com was founded on December 12, 1998. The Internet Archive has saved facebook.com 5,508,200 times between December 12, 1998 and December 15, 2023.
Is facebook.com Safe?
Here, I analyzed facebook.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:
Sucuri says facebook.com is a medium security risk.
Sucuri says facebook.com is a medium security risk because it returned an Anomaly behavior detected [possible malware] (warning.html_anomaly) status on the following URLs:
- http://facebook.com/.git/HEAD
- https://facebook.com/
Unmask Parasites says facebook.com is clean.
VirusTotal says facebook.com is flagged as malicious by ArcSight Threat Intelligence.
It also has a Crowdsourced context rating of MEDIUM 1:
ThreatFox IOCs for 2023-09-10 – according to source ArcSight Threat Intelligence – 3 months ago
Quasar RAT botnet C2 domain (confidence level: 100%)
URLVoid says facebook.com passed all blocklist engines.
In conclusion, Sucuri says facebook.com doesn’t have malware. Unmask Parasites says facebook.com is clean of parasites. VirusTotal and Sucuri say facebook.com isn’t malicious or blacklisted. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.
Links and Profiles
Website: facebook.com
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December 15, 2023 @ 17:12
Editor’s Note
The Anomaly behavior scripts:
requireLazy(["InitialJSLoader"], function(InitialJSLoader) {InitialJSLoader.loadOnDOMContentReady(["Dn8mxhm","+Fu52I4","ne+Ol4t","9dWDUmY","6\/Rh4cc","nPkfSCL","coXAcdj","\/AN8Bt5","ezPUKEL","w6gpC7m","9MogwrT","M7\/jlCR","pZuCvpU","TMCnFn9","dlMdW7h","sb2Z7d3","BFolX4R","nCFpfyq","oo6oo8h","rNHAT61","GpQFBwL","I8asZxF","DmO8i6D","W5vc6gy","HN4gUih","liqaNHJ","y1rEgOS"]);});Redirects to facebook[dot]com/.git/HEAD?_fb_noscript=1
requireLazy(["InitialJSLoader"], function(InitialJSLoader) {InitialJSLoader.loadOnDOMContentReady(["TMCnFn9","9dWDUmY","Dn8mxhm","+Fu52I4","6\/Rh4cc","nPkfSCL","coXAcdj","\/AN8Bt5","ezPUKEL","w6gpC7m","9MogwrT","dlMdW7h","sb2Z7d3","BFolX4R","pZuCvpU","nCFpfyq","oo6oo8h","rNHAT61","GpQFBwL","M7\/jlCR","I8asZxF","DmO8i6D","W5vc6gy","HN4gUih","liqaNHJ","y1rEgOS"]);});Redirects to facebook[dot]com/?_fb_noscript=1