Facebook

Facebook was created in 2003 by Matt Zuckerberg while he was attending harvard. He started it as a site for people to exchange notes and talk to each other. It started with a few members who where his freinds. It is now owned by Facebook Inc.

Facebook has become a monster. It is now so large that it has over now over 200 million active users. I think that the reason it is so popular is that it servers many functions that primarily appeal to college students but also other people as well. The functions it serves are: Allowing people to stay in touch, allow people to basically have their own website without doing much work, allows people to investigate other people, create events and get the word out on them very quickly, and finally, gives people something to look at when they are bored.

It is really crazy to me how large and popular facebook has gotten so fast. And now that it is so large, it has a certain kind of power. Even though it doesn’t cost anything to join, and you can be a part of it without it costing anything, it has become an asset. I have seen more and more businesses on facebook and people trying to advertise that way. If a person is not on facebook it is almost as if they don’t exist.

Facebook is so weird and yet it makes so much sense. With everyone trying to communicate that way, it is almost impossible to not check it regularly. I think facebook has shown the power of social networking sites. Businesses are joining facebook like crazy these days, just because it is highly trafficed.