Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Facebook Wonders

By Todd Thompson


It has become one of the greatest social networking sites on the Web. You see it everywhere today. Businesses, news stations, and even stores all have it pages that you can "friend".

It first came to the surface in February 2004 but was limited to only colleges and universities in the Boston area. By July 2010, it had more than 500 million users in only six years later. it features started by solely creating a personal profile page to joining multiple groups, sharing and posting articles, and creating "fan" pages.

It was designed by Mark Zuckerberg, a computer science sophomore at Harvard. Zuckerberg and his roommates and fellow computer science classmates, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes collaborated on the joint effort in creating the world's famous social networking site.

It's usage popularity caught on and spread like wildfire. It quickly surpassed other social networking sites, like MySpace, out of the water. it's features and capabilities, networking wise, were more effective than MySpace because of the vast social networking web that is created.

So why is it so much more popular than other networking sites? The theory is that MySpace, another social networking site that was once ranked number one, allegedly achieved poor publicity. Parents claimed that MySpace was attracting male predators who victimized young teenagers. it's advanced features and professional look quickly surpassed MySpace in a short time.

It's features top all others. With the abilities to design your own personal profile, fan or group page, the web of networking grows and grows. Adding a limitless amount of friends and other contacts is part of what makes it so huge. A normal it user has the ability to post and share articles or videos, upload and share photos, post comments, chat interactively with other "online" available users, and send messages.

Another feature is the ability to "friend" other users. When creating a personal profile, you can fill in the fields with information on where you work, your school, your hometown, and where you even went to school. Each time you log in, it will suggest "people you may know" based on the organizations you are associated with and have filled in your fields.

Another popular it feature is its "friends" suggestions. Once you add your place of employment, hometown, or school, it will suggest friends or coworkers for you to add to your contact list as it reads and recognizes the common interests between you and another contact. Imagine over 500 million users connected to 500 million users. One can clearly see how it has affected our society. It has made us closer and opened communication among us. Social networking sites have made our world smaller and opened and connected ourselves more closely. It's amazing how a small idea became so big.




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