Facebook. Enough Said.
Entertainment Weekly states it perfectly with this quote, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"
In 2004, a conversation about Facebook would have gone similar to this one,
College Student 1- "Hey, have you heard about Facebook?"
College Student 2 - "Face what?"
In 2011 if someone asked me "What's Facebook?" I would blankly stare at them for a couple minutes before bursting out laughing.
As of July 2011, Facebook has 800 million active users. My 92-year-old great grandmother has a Facebook, and so does my 8-year-old little sister, as well as my parents, friends, etc. The real question is who does not have a Facebook? Facebook has become a cultural phenomenon to keep friends, acquaintances, peers, and family connected.
So since many already know what Facebook is, where is Facebook going, and who is going with?
Facebook is taking many companies with it to the top, but the most recent and popular website rumored to be attaching them to the Facebook name is eBay.
“Facebook and eBay will deepen their relationship at a developer conference this week, according to a person familiar with the e-commerce company, cited by Reuters.”
Facebook teaming up with eBay will create even more of a user-friendly and “right at your fingertips” experience via Facebook. More information is to be announced after the developer conference about the partnership between Facebook and eBay.
Facebook will continue to bridge partnerships and build relationships with other large internet businesses to further grow and develop their company. In reference to my second post on this blog, this was MySpace's downfall. MySpace could not generate new ideas and innovations. Facebook is booming and will continue to boom due to it's ever evolving company and ideas.
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*Written by Catie Beth
I totally agree with this entire post! Facebook has totally taken the social networking world my storm! Unlike Myspace, Ez-board and other smaller sites, Facebook was able to capitalize on the likes and dislikes of the consumers and become innovative. They were able to create opportunities for its users to be connected with people from their email, companies that they like and even personal band pages for music groups. It caters to every single user. Although, when it was first created it was used solely by college students that had personal invitations it now allows anyone to join and there are minimum barriers to entry. For a lot of the original users this has created a problem, however. Many college students feel that their older and younger family members shouldn't be allowed. From what I was told by some original consumers it no longer feels exclusive. They feel as if the younger and older generations are taking over. I personally don't mind, I feel like we have the option to secure our profiles and accept whoever we want and so essentially we can control who can reach us on there. But what if Facebook wanted to go back to the original exclusive use for college students only, how would they keep everyone else out?
ReplyDeleteI agree with your blog. Facebook is now everywhere around the world. Facebook is such an amazing tool for everybody to find old friends, lost family members. I like the fact that we get remainders of people's bdays and some special occasion that we might forget otherwise. Through this social networking website we are able to meet new friends and interact with them through IM and chat messages. I'm not surprise that facebook has over 800 million users since its the easiest and faster way to interact with other users.
ReplyDeleteTo me, Facebook has been a double edged sword. Facebook has allowed me to connect with people I otherwise would not have been able to connect with, some people famous and other people for job connections.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, Facebook has also allowed others from the past to find and try to communicate with me. Most of that communication is welcome, while some of it is not. I mean the people in high school who make fun of you because you are on the distinguished honor roll and all-state in your sport, and now they want to be your facebook friend? As Dr. Phil says, you gotta get real, lol.
Facebook has been more beneficial than any social networking site so far. Whether it be connecting with old friends or even family members, the site has provided a new outlook for everyone. I agree with this blog completely. Facebook has even allowed for businesses to prosper and become more recognized. I believe facebook will continue to expand and create an amazing way to connect with people and businesses.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this post as well! Facebook has not only let family and friends stay connected, but equally as important has allowed businesses connect. Like you said, Ebay and Facebook are planning on somehow joining forces and I think this is just the start! Facebook is so popular right now, just imagine how it will be when these businesses start linking up with each other.
ReplyDeleteI 5thly agree with this post as well haha. Myspace is just gone. Poor Tom. I am really interested in what the outcome of their Strategic Alliance will be. Could you buy items on Facebook like Hand me downs? Or will Facebook have online auctions as well to see who the person you're buying from, what city they are in, what high school they went to, what college they went to, where they are now from those "IM AT BOWLING IN CHARLOTTE" type of apps. Anyways, Hopefully it wont get too absurd.
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