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Overview
Social networking sites are online communities where people can interact with friends, family, coworkers, acquaintances and others with similar interests. Most social networking sites are Web-based and provide many ways for their users to interact, such as chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file-sharing, blogging and discussion groups. Popular social networking sites such as Facebook are being used daily by millions of people and are becoming a part of everyday online activities. Social networking sites provide an immediate and personal way to deliver programs, products and information to individuals or friends within your personal network.
CDC on Facebook
CDC encourages the strategic use of Facebook to effectively and inexpensively reach individuals with personalized and targeted health information. CDC manages the following Facebook profiles:
Facebook Profiles
- CDC
- Act Against AIDS
- CDC Breast Cancer
- CDC Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity – COCA
- CDC Diabetes
- CDC Emergency
- CDC en Español
- CDC Global
- CDC Heads Up
- CDC HIV
- CDC Kenya
- CDC MMWR
- CDC National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
- CDC NPIN
- CDC STD
- CDC Stop Transmission of Polio – STOP Program
- Page last reviewed: August 31, 2017
- Page last updated: August 31, 2017
- Content source:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Page maintained by: Office of the Associate Director for Communication, Division of Public Affairs