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"The Social Network"

After watching the movie tonight and started diving into the background of facebook and its evolution to this day. It is amazing to see the tranformation from an actual 'facebook' or online yearbook to the place that the website has come to be. In its infancy at Harvard Thefacebook was tailored to the college student trying to figure out someones relationship status, class schedule or club involvement. As the website grew from campus to campus, Mark and other members of the organization had ideas to build upon the framework of social networking to keep students coming back. Facebook went from being the 'cool' thing to do, to an actual part of your life. People, including myself can get lost in Facebook for a good 20-30 minutes just looking at photos. This part of Facebook was not an initial aspect of the page, but over time the visionaries have found new ways to keep students glued to the site. Facebook's goal is to keep you on there sight as long as possible because then they can sell more advertising, making more profit.

Entire relationships can be maintained on Facebook where distance is no problem. Also since conversations are monitored by all of your friends complete discussions of important topics are for the world to see. When your relationship status changes do you really want all of your "facebook" friends to try to console you in a time of deep emotional pain? This is private information that through Facebook the entire world can see and comment on. You have the choice to be involved in Facebook or not, what will you decide?
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