Facebook+Research

Kathy Peterson
[] In this article it shows the statistics with the amount of population that are facebook users. This article helped me a lot with my research becuase it shows me how facebook is one of the most used and active sites right now. I found this very amusing becuase i learned alot from it. I wrote about how facebook becamae so popular so fast and this website showed me the different things that people do most which allowed me to write about what was most popular.

Works Cited: Press Room, Facebook (2009). []

Kameran Malcolm
[] This article talks about how doctors and their patients are now able to talk via Facebook to get to know each other on a more personal level. This makes it also easier for the patients to get a hold of their doctor and tell them what is wrong if they are not able to visit. Jude Corrigan said “W e  are happy to be the first NHS trust to start using this new technology. It shows we are a dynamic organization that is not afraid to try new ways of communicating”. I think that this is a very good way to use this social tool and it is also a good example of what we can do. Work cited: “ Trust uses Facebook website to link up staff and patients”  NURSING STANDARD  10 iiovember 14:: vol 22 no 10:: 2007

Ryan Ramos
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics This is not an article but it has a lot to do with my research and I found it very helpful let alone interesting. My main focus was on the mobile section of the statistics. I want the main point of my research to be purely on this statistic, "People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are almost 50% more active on Facebook than non-mobile users." There's a lot to be learned about what is being said at the time it is typed. Its different when you can change your status whenever you want rather than having to be next to a computer and post something. There are 300 million people that use facebook daily and 65 million access their profile through their phone. What kind of phone allows this to happen? Where are these people when they update their status? Does this influence what they say? Would they say what they said if they didnt have their phone?

Lana Lucchesi:
====In this article, “ Gender Constructed Online, Stereotypes Reified Offline: Understanding Media Representation of Adolescent Girls on MySpace”, by Shayla Stern, the issue is being brought up about how the social networking web pages have adolescent girls showing explicit photographs of them just to try to present them as much older and more mature than they actually are. Even though this paper talks more closely with Myspace in particular, it also ties in with other social networking sites as well as Facebook. “ Online, girls have said that it is much easier to say something they might not in real life, to play with identity and sexuality and to conquer any fears from their "offline" social lives” (Stern 4). The author points out that your identity online and on the computer can be constructed completely differently of your choice. The internet is a much easier place than reality to ‘show themselves off’ through their profile pictures or the way they write on other’s walls and posts. This article is a perfect example of how people and photographs can intertwine with social networking sites, like Facebook, and how it relates to how you create yourself a new identity. ==== ==== Stern, Shayla. Conference Papers –International Communication Assosciation; 2007 Annual Meeting, p1-23, 23p. EBSCO. Web. 23 Oct. 2009 ====

Allie Boone:
In the article, “How Many Friends Is Too Many?” by Steven Levy, the issue of how many friends that people have on both Facebook and MySpace is discussed. The article is interesting since it compares the limit of 5,000 friends on Facebook to the limitless number of friends one can have on MySpace. “While Facebook doesn't want to dictate rules of friending behavior to its users, the company is explicit in stating that the purpose of maintaining a list is not to see whose friend belt has the most notches. The point is to keep in closer contact with those who are already in one's social circle” (Levy). The author points out that the purpose of these sites is mainly just for close contact with people you are already friends with, rather than trying to add new people that are strangers. He further emphasizes that MySpace is more casual and that it is more common for people to add people they either don’t know or barely know, and Facebook is more formal, in that people do not normally add people they don’t know, especially with the 5,000-person friend limit. I find this article very interesting, as it pertains to my topic and helps further emphasize my research and what I believe in about these sites. It is also fascinating to note the comparisons about these sites and their friend limits, because I was unaware before reading this article that there even was a friend limit to how many friends one could have on Facebook. Levy, Steven "How Many Friends Is Too Many?." Newsweek 151.21 (2008): 15. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 23 Oct. 2009.

t relevant research (links to articles, videos, webpages) related to Facebook here.
Atlee Schwab

http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T7679432135&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T7679432147&cisb=22_T7679432146&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=8213&docNo=6 In this article it really talks about how Facebook is a young person's place to be themselves and act as individuals. But now days parents and elders are starting to have their own. It seems as if parents do not use facebook for the right reason they only use it to check up on kids and see what they are doing. It is even getting worse, Teachers, Bosses, and employees are using them now to check up on whomever they want to. As janet states "  Facebook,  says Hannah Cobb, 22, a student at Florida State University whose mom has yet to join, ' was almost like a secret community for college kids where you could put up all your pictures from your nights out partying, and no one would ever see them except for your friends. Now it's more like a lot of the school administrators are on there -- professors and stuff -- and they can see what you're doing'  " ( Kornblum  ). This shows how high school and college kids dont have the freedom they used to have before the elderly invasion occured. I think that this is just going to keep getting worse because it is the perfect tool for a parent. Pretty soon it will only be elders online.

<span class="SS_L3"> Kornblum, Janet. "<span class="SS_L0">Teens: It's our Facebook  ; As parents join in, kids feel their cyberspace invaded   ." __USA Today__ 4 Oct. 2007. Jenna Silverman

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/andrew-sullivan-why-i-blog Why I Blog by Andrew Sullivan is a very interesting article. It's nine pages but it's full of neat information. If you just read the intro at the top, it makes you want to read more. He talks about how the blogging is a new form of literacy. He gives history about how we got the word blog so he takes a different approach into writing this article. I feel like he gave me a liitle insight on why people blog. This really helps me because I have been searching and searching for articles on the internet on meanings and reasons behind blogs/posts/status updates but I have yet to find much until I ran across this. One thing that he said that I really liked was when he compared blogs to diaries. Sullivan says, " A blog, unlike a diary, is instantly public. It transforms this most personal and retrospective of forms into a painfully public and immediate one"(Sullivan). He makes many great points in his reading so I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. evidence of work: Sullivan, Andrew. "Why I Blog." The Atlantic. November 2008. web. 22 Oct. 2009.

Mercedes Jimenez http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T7679302527&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T7679302530&cisb=22_T7679302529&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=8109&docNo=11

The article "Predictive texting can harm your brain power" by Richard Alleyne from The Daily Telegraph discusses the fact that children who commonly "predictive text" which is when you type out the beginning of a word expecting the other person to guess the rest of the word, are beginning to think differently (also known as the T9 function on several phones). The way these children's brains function is being changed by their common use of text messaging. The article exposes the fact that on several IQ tests children who used their phone and its text messaging functions more often were quicker on most IQ tests but not as accurate on answers and their level of accuracy. <span class="SS_L3"> "The use of mobile phones is changing the way children learn and pushing them to become more impulsive in the way they behave. If you're used to operating in that environment and entering a couple of letters and getting the word you want, you expect everything to be like that" (Alleyne). The fact that a small, new piece of technology can or has had such a vast impression on the population reveals how easily most people are amused and how quickly, we, as a society have allowed ourselves to be influenced by the social media and modern technology. Text messaging, among other new developments has become so popular that it has began to change the way we communicate as a society and is even developing effects on the human brain depending on the frequency we use this new technology.

Works Cited: Alleyne, Richard. "<span class="SS_L3"> <span class="SS_L0">Predictive texting can harm your brainpower  ". The Daily Telegraph (London). August 11 2009. __The Daily Telegraph (London)__. Lexis Nexis. CSUC Meriam Library, Chico, CA. 10/23/09 <http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T7679302527&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T7679302530&cisb=22_T7679302529&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=8109&docNo=11>.

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I found this really interesting interview. It’s called, ** WHAT DO PEOPLE DO WITH FACEBOOK? ** It was conducted with Adam N. Joinson from the University of Bath who is studying users of Facebook and what they use Facebook for. “The main use of Facebook is the recreation of social connections between people who had, or still have, a connection in their everyday lives. So, people mainly used Facebook to reconnect with people they went to school with, worked with, or friends they lost touch with. But, the key question is 'what do people do once they have created this network?' The results of the research suggest that this can be divided into four main activities – they can use applications within the site to interact with their network, they can browse their friends' friends and learn more about them, they can join groups and express their identity via shared social experiences, or they can use the site to inform others of their news, and keep up to date with others' actions.” I think this quote explains why most users use Facebook. These are pretty basic uses for Facebook. I am curious to know if other people use if for other reasons besides the ones that Adam stated in the quote. I thought it was interesting how he said that the more time people spend on Facebook the more friends they have. If someone were to be on Facebook for a long amount the more time they have to find and add friernds. They may not be close to these people, but they may have met them a few times and may want to see what they have been doing, who they are friends with, and look at their pictures. Work Cited “WHAT DO PEOPLE DO WITH FACEBOOK? Interview with Adam N. Joinson (Univ. Bath)” 04 Sept. 2009. [] 22 Oct. 2009. Molly Maher []** This article was about a group of researchers who discovered ways people use your information from facebook, even if your profile is private. The researchers used a computer program that searched through public users of facebook, to create a map of their relationships with other people. This process allows them to search through their friends, and slowly find your information. "It's a good way for marketers to get hold of your information: not your complete social graph, but enough to do what they want." (Johnson). The author warns people that even though your profile is private, it still shows a little informations that marketers can use. This makes me wonder what they do with my information and how do they single out one person to find their information?And who do they single out? I found this article very interesting because the people running this search didnt care what the people had to say, they just wanted to know who was saying it and to whom. I think this text could help people with internet fraud and ways people getting their identites stolen.
 * Facebook users unwittingly revealing personal information thanks to way privacy settings work

Johnson, Bobbie. "Facebook privacy settings 'could mean users give away personal information' | Technology | guardian.co.uk." //Latest news, comment and reviews from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk//. Web. 22 Oct. 2009. [].

Kelsey Joyce The Facebook Effect http://www.facebookblog.org/?postid=10000035
 * The Positive Facebook Effects

Colin Pape, expresses a few of the positive effects of Facebook through his article "The Facebook Effect-The Positive Facebook Effect." The main claims he makes is that some positive effects are reconnecting old friends together, finding jobs and business opportunities, organizing events, and communicating along with organizing. It allows you to keep in touch with old grammer and high school friends, childhood best friends, old co-workers, or old roomates. It enables you to reconnect and see what everyone has been up to since you last made contact. As for job and business opportunities, Facebook allows you to contact information for job positioning for certain companies, and look further into these sorts of opportunities. For organizing events, it allows you to organize and plan popular social events and help to communicate this to a large amount of people all at once. They can then discuss the event bringing them all together at the same event invitation. Lastly, Facebook allows results in better communication and organization making it much easier for people to create campaigns, and publish the information they need to be posted.

<span style="color: #797979; font-family: helvetica,'trebuchet ms',tahoma,arial,times; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"> Works Cited Colin Pape. "The Positive Facebook Effects." //The Facebook Effect.// 5 May 2007. **

Callie McMurry [|Facebook Advertising Experiment]
 * Facebook's Big Advertising Experiment Drives New Revenue**

Eric Eldon is the creator of VentureBeat, a website where he posts his article about social media and the changes we see with it. In one of his articles, “Facebook’s Big Advertising Experiment Drives New Revenue,” he focuses on how Facebook.com has been able to pull itself from a website relying on loans to a self surviving company. The main factor Eldon believes is behind this is the increasing advertising used on the websites main page. What this advertising section offers is for large companies down to local business can create an add that will be displayed on the left hand side of the users home page that generally matches their target audience. The advertisers can make their advertisement for example show up on only certain ages, races, sex’s and location of the individuals. Eldon states that “the company has been trying to develop new forms of ads that rely on user data and behavior — rather than the traditional impression-based model of most social network ads to date” (Eldon). This article is very useful to anyone whose topics are focusing on the growth or people and money in Facebook. Also anyone doing the world of marketing on the internet would find this article very useful because it breaks down how much money has gone to advertising and how it has basically saved the Facebook.com website.

Works Cited Eric Eldon. “Facebook’s Big Advertising Experiment Drives New Revenue.” //Inside Facebook// n.p. 17 September 2009, 20 October 2009.

Sarah Norris [|**http://www.utexas.edu/its/secure/articles/social_networking.php**] This article is about the negative aspect of Facebook. It talks about how there are weird people out there who make fake profiles to stalk people and it also talks about how future employers look at Facebook and it could lose you a job or even get you in trouble at school. As the article goes on it talks about the things you can do to make your Facebook more private and safer for yourself. The points the author is making is that people need to be more careful on Facebook and take the necessary precautions if they are going to use Facebook. While I was reading the article I was wondering if there are any statistics or correlations between having a Facebook and getting a job? Or even since it seems like business people are now having Facebook, is there a business edict side to having a Facebook? I found it interesting how they said that some college kids have been kicked out of school for having bad things on there Facebook. This article would help anyone who is researching the positive and negative sides of Facebook.
 * Security Awareness: The Dangers of Facebook**

Mark Smith In February of 2009, Facebook made a change to their mandatory licensing agreement, deleting a provision that ensured that when a user deleted his or her account, the information relevant to that individual would be deleted and Facebook's license to that information would expire. The change to their licensing agreement gives Facebook the right to retain users’ content and licenses after they have terminated their account. This [|NY Times Article] describes some of the media reaction to this change and the details of the licensing agreement. Basically the bottom line is, if you have an account on facebook and decide to remove any form of information, they have legal rights to retain and distribute that information after you remove it from your page. Kind of makes you think a little bit about the information you choose to put on the internet. The ideas behind this article could be useful in a discussion about the formation of an identity on the internet, or about the value of personal data as a commodity and how Web 2.0 has made it much easier to harvest and distribute that data.
 * Facebook and Information Ownership**

As a note- since this article was published, Facebook has released a statement wherein they describe the elements of their process (an information sharing process) that render this sort of licensing arrangement necessary and also offers their sincere assurances that the folks at Facebook do not intend to abuse anyone's information.

Atlee Schwab
====This article explains how everyone looks at Facebook as a younger age. Facebook was actually originated as only for people who had .edu at the end of there email. This shows that it "was" a younger person's game. But now older people are starting to use it also. Facebook is a way to keep in touch with old schoolmates and old time friends. I think that this is a big reason older people started using Facebook, and the younger generation really doesn't have any old time friends and schoolmate. The younger generation uses it more as communicating with friends about what they are gonna do or to gossip. Some questions that i had after reading this article were: How often do people use Facebook? Do younger people use it more, or do older, or is it about the same? I think that this supports our research because it helps us know the background of Facebook and how it has changed just because of all the different kinds of people use it. []==== Melanie Higgins ==== This article warns of the dangers of using social networking sites, particularly Facebook. Its title is “Security Awareness” which is fitting because when putting personal information on the web, you are losing a sense of security. The author explains that what a lot of people do not realize is when a person makes a profile on Facebook, their name can be searched through any large engine, and all their profile information can pop up on the screen. This article gives options and examples of what you can do to make your profile more private, and also teach you how to be aware of who or what is searching your name. For example, he suggests that a person should create a profile name different from his/her own name and “avoid using any personal information that would help someone identify or locate you offline.” He also brings up an important point that can easily relate to college students, or even high school students that like to post pictures of themselves and friends. These pictures show up online and can be used against you in further situations when you have to present yourself well in front of people like job interviewees, or college professors. Overall, the article gives good suggestions on how to be safe online, and avoid inconvenient and even dangerous situations. ====

I found this article very interesting. I am already taking a lot of these precautions into account, but it is good that information on how to be safe online is being put out there. The article doesn’t really raise many questions but it does concern me for what social media sites are doing to our generation. A place that is meant for friendship and communication is turning into something much more. This informed me of the fact that now it is extremely easy to find personal information online. I could Google my boyfriend’s name and find his facebook, myspace, twitter, and any other accounts he has online. This text could support any research having to do with the dangers of social networking sites. It is a specific topic, but necessary to get a broad idea of what is going on in the World Wide Web. ​

By: Alyssa Turner
====The article “Study Finds Link Between Facebook Use, Lower Grades in College” is about how college students who use the popular website, Facebook, generally have lower GPAs than the students who do not use Facebook. One of the points that the author is making is that students who use Facebook do not study as much as people who do not participate in the site. The author backs this statement up by providing a statistic that states “users said they averaged one to five hours a week studying, while non-users studied 11 to 15 hours per week.” Another point that is made by the author is that college students who use Facebook have lower GPAs than students who do not use Facebook. This hypothesis is backed up by the statement, “Facebook users in the study had GPAs between 3.0 and 3.5, while non-users had GPAs between 3.5 and 4.0. This text raised a couple of questions for me. It made me wonder that if I cancelled my Facebook and even my Myspace account, maybe I would have better grades in college. I also wondered that if I were to delete my Facebook account, if I would discover some other activity to distract myself with. This is most likely the truth because like many other college students, we are always surrounded by numerous distractions. I live in the dorms, just like the majority of college freshman, which provides so many distractions. What I found interesting about this text was that the students majoring in science, technology, engineering, math, and business used facebook more than people who were majoring in humanities and social sciences. I would think that the people who were majoring in humanities and social sciences would use Facebook more because those people tend to be more social in my eyes. I also found it interesting that lower grades are supposedly the result of students socializing more online. What was confusing for me was that 79 percent of students claimed that Facebook did not have an impact on their academic performance. I tend to disagree, because I know that Facebook does impact my academic performance because I am so distracted when I am on facebook, and it makes me less likely to do my homework and study. What I want to know more about is how adults are being distracted my Facebook. It is not just college students who are using Facebook; it is also adults. My mother uses Facebook and Twitter on a regular basis, and I am sure that it distracts her while she is at work. What we can make of this text is that we can use it to show evidence for how technology is distracting us and taking time away from time away from face-to-face socialization.====

By: Kathy Peterson
How facebook is becoming so popular. Facebook is a website that is privately owned by you. You can do many things on facebook such as adding all of your friends, uploading pictures for your friends to see, and IMing with your friends. Facebook is a very fashionable site that has become very popular very quickly. The founder of facebook was named Mark Zuckerberg who who attented Harvard. Facebook started to become popular at Harvard and moved on to many other colleges. Facebook was a site for college student but that changed very rapidly. Not only do high school student have face book but also middle school students. The Author of this article is showing numbers such as, when he states 1.5 million photos are uploaded daily on facebook. He gives many facts about how people use facebook and showing how so many people interact with the same stuff. The author also uses dates to show how belongings on facebook grow so fast and when it happens. An example is when he says in 2005 is when it became Facebook and not thefacebook, and also in 2006 is when facebooks started offering stuff. Not only does he use numbers and dates he also uses percentages. These questions helped me learn a lot more about what I was researching on. It gave me a lot more information than I already new. I didn’t find really anything that was confusing to me but I would like to learn a lot more about more facts and percentages about what is most popular on facebook. This research that I found would work well because the essentials that he give are so clear. He gives lots of great facts to show how much facebook is growing. http://mashable.com/2006/08/25/facebook-profile/

[|Facebook is taking over the world]
By: Caroline Lusich The article //Nerd World: Why Facebook is the Future// by Lev Grossman the author opens up on his statement about the future of the internet through Facebook. Grossman says that Facebook is a feat of social engineering because of the authenticity and almost perfect realism put out by the users. The author says that Facebook is almost like an internet community inside the internet itself. Nothing is secret on Facebook since news feeds keep all your friends updated on everything from whos wall you post on to your minute to minute status updates. The feel of reality and trust people put into communities like Facebook is insanely overwhelming and I believe it surpasses anything that people ever believed could become from a friend sharing website. Grossman ends with the statement, ”the most important function of a social network is connecting people and that its second most important function is keeping them apart” and I think that is ultimately true and one of the major reasons why Facebook is so huge because you can totally cut people off or invite them into your virtual community with the click of a button. This article really made me think about how big of a deal Faceboook and other virtual communities really are and how they're pratically shaping the way for our future in Web 2.0 by creating more reliable and real ways to connect to people. I think this research would be helpful to somebody who is interested in how the internet is growing up and the impact of Facebook and other sites will make on it.

[|frankieragusa] This article was about how Facebook allows you to watch or spy on others. The example in this text was how a mother watches over her teen children and keeps up to date with what their doing and who there talking too. She also can see her daughter’s pictures that she posts. Some which she believed were inappropriate. This went the other way around too, because the mother had things she didn’t want the daughter seeing on her profile. By having a facebook you are putting yourself out there to everyone. Another thing the article talked about was how Facebook has grown so much over the last few years. It started out with just a few million high school students and now has grown to over 30 million people, adults and children alike. This article raises a few questions for me. 1 is why Facebook has grown so big. Another is why are people so attracted to it, especially older people? That is what is interesting because they did not grow up with anything like this and I feel like they would be against it. This text will really help my research because it shows relationship between different generations on Facebook. We can use this text to show information on how Facebook effects family life.

Atlee Schwab This text is explaining that over the past year now the speed of 25 and older facebook users are skyrocketing compared to younger people. The author is trying to say if the numbers stay like this then facebook will not be for young users. The author showed a graph of the numbers of all of the facebook users the past couple of years. [] I wonder why older people are now using facebook? Maybe because it makes them feel younger. Also if your older or younger do you still use it the same way. It’s a little confusing because facebook agreed that the data is probably not all right. This supports are research with like what different stereotypes use as far as web 2.0. Post links to articles, videos, or webpages that are useful to those of us who are studying Facebook and its use on our culture. Or use the Discussion tab above to share ideas and thoughts about this research. <span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,Sans;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> __Careful What You Post__ Jacob Tannenbaum When posting pictures on Facebook, Myspace, or andy social networking website you should think twice about the extent of people who will see the picture and how long it will actually appear on the hosts website. In the article written in May 21, 2009 researchers discovered deleted photos will appear on the website for up to 30 days or longer. "<span style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,Sans; line-height: normal;">Joseph Bonneau, an American member of the research team, told AFP: "When you delete a photo, many of the sites don't actively remove it, they basically just wait for it be overwritten." These websites should have be able to secure a user desires and their wishes for privacy by immediatly being able to remove these photos from the host site. Thus saying "how can we know" and "were is thing really going?", in the wondering it makes rethink what we post onto the internet. It does not seem and better if you can access the picture by the having the url code it is posted to. In example if you are considering a job do not post a picture of you on spring break chugging a beer or smoking marijuana. We must take a look at the pictures we take and even closer into what we post onto the internet. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,Sans; line-height: normal;">__http://www.physorg.com/news162113863.html__

Facebook: a Generation's Identity Archive Sumanpreet Ojla--In this article, Fred Stutzman basically explains about the way that you are capable of changing your identity in just a click. He says that the young students would mix up the truth with false information. He goes on with the idea that the young students are so much into the "game" that they don't really understand that what they are doing is being recorded and with that they are creating an identity that maybe they are not happy with. He goes on giving three stages of what would happen as the students understand that the "game" they are playing is giving them a whole other identity. The first stage is that the students "will cause a lot of mental discomfort to students who hadn't really thought through online identity." Next, the students will have to understand what they post on Facebook is broadcasted to the entire social network permanently, not just to a couple of people. So the students "will be forced to rethink how they socialize in the Facebook." Finally, the students would understand that Facebook, along with other social networking sites, are not "games." Fred Stutzman's is basically saying that it is the young college students that are creating a new identity with their mix of information. Well, I want to know more about is it only that the college students that are creating new identities by "playing the game?" Overall, by looking at all of the social networking sites, aren't all people, no matter what group, part of the creation of different digital identities than real life identities? This text would help anyone who is wanting to research digital identity through different social networks.

From Kim Jaxon: Link to an article about identity and Facebook: [|Facebook Identity Goffman]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Jannik Andersen 9/11/09 In society today your considered an outcast if you do not have a Facebook. There are over 250 million users all throughout the world. It was founded by a man by the name of Mark Zuckerberg in February of 2004. In those 5 years it has boosted greatly. It is used for people to share photos and stay openly connected throughout the world. In the article it explains how Zuckerberg all began. He first tried out a project called Facesmash which led to legal trouble and lots of complaints but after the charges were dropped he thought he could make a bigger and better web connection. As Zuckerberg himself says "He called Facebook a "social utility" and explained that one day everyone would be able to use it to locate people on the web - a truly global digital phone book." Since our society today is so technology advanced he also thought that if the site was easy to maneuver than it would be an even bigger hit because teens and adults would use it. This he has accomplished. He is still trying to get the whole world onto the system because it takes the place for our phone, people use it for communication, work, and pleasure. I found this article very interesting because it allowed for myself (a Facebook addict) to see how it all began. i now look at it differently because he is right, It is my new cell phone. The article would be helpful to anyone that would like to know the originating of Facebook and want to here a true story about someone reaching their dreams. http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/16/technology/hempel_facebook.fortune/index.htm

[|Facebook is taking over] Lana Lucchesi - <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This article, Jessi Hempel, basically explains how Facebook is spreading throughout the world so rapidly and how many “fans” there are connected to this website. Hempel says as of now there is about 175 million strong fans and it has been growing about five million new users weekly. Not only are middle school, high school, and college kids linked onto Facebook, but now more “mature types” like Lichtenstein are beginning to join even when they never thought they would b e involved or have the time to enjoy this sort of thing. Facebooks addictiveness of checking on people’s status’, friend updates, new profile pictures is what keeps Facebook going so strong. According to ComScore, a typical user is browsing this website for an average of about 169 minutes a month. The creator, Zuckerberg, told Hempel that his goal is to “turn Facebook into the planet's standardized communication (and marketing) platform, as ubiquitous and intuitive as the telephone but far more interactive, multidimensional - and indispensable.” Hempel says today more than 70% off Facebook users are outside the U.S. and most read in their native language. Questions this article raises for me is will Facebook grow so big will human interaction hurt socially? This article would be very useful for people who want to learn some background imformation of the creator and what his goals are for the future. Also, it shows lots of numbers and percentages of how many people actually are involved with Facebook <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">.

Chloe Hilliard: [|Facebook is Mainstream] ** This article basically explains how Facebook uses web 2.0 without using all the crazy technical words. The writer of the article, **Aidan** says that the average person wouldn’t know what someone was talking about if they were to “ **Ask anyone on the street about RSS, widgets, APIs, or wikis” Then Aidan goes on to say, “web 2.0 needs to be ** humanized ** before it can ever be adopted by the mainstream.” So Facebook uses all the concepts of web 2.0, but in a way that common people can understand. Aidan goes into detail about how each part of Facebook relates to different parts of Web 2.0. For example, he compares such parts of web 2.0 like “widgets” to Facebook applications. He also compares “micro blogging” to Facebook Status updates. This article was very interesting because it broke down almost all of the concepts on Web 2.0 into one website that is used by millions of people. It amazes me, because Facebook is such a simple concept that our parents, and maybe even grandparents are able to use. But if we think about web 2.0 alone, it seems very complicated. This article would be very useful for people who want to understand more of the web 2.0 language because of the great comparisons Aidan makes.

From Kim Jaxon: Website with articles related to social media sites: [|Mashable]

Gina Metzger: How did Facebook originate and how has it become so big so fast? This article is mainly about the origin of facebook, and how it all got started. Now there are more than 200 million users and has become way bigger than other social networking sites such as Myspace. Facebook was not always called Facebook. In 2004, when it originated, it was called Facemash. The owner of “Facemash” Mark Zuckerberg invented it as a rating system, where two peoples faces would be set side to side and people would rate who was more attractive. Zuckerberg got in some legal trouble for hacking, and for other ways that he got the pictures that he used. Charges were filed, but dropped, and then it turned into what it is now. Facebook originated by Zuckerberg, who was a Harvard student who got tired of waiting for the university to create a school-wide Facebook. By 2004, half of the university was using it. After this, he made the website available to other websites across the country and Canada. Then he extended it to everyone who was over the age of 13. On April 16th, 2007, Facebook became well known, and the reason was the Virginia Tech massacre. As news crews were trying to get information, the students at Virginia Tech were constantly putting updates up on their Facebooks. This article really interested me for a few reasons. One was that I had no idea how facebook originated, and the other is because there is so much background there. I want to know though how they employ their 700 employees. I mean it doesn’t cost money to use it, so how would they have so many employees. I also want to find out if it mainly spread by word of mouth, or TV, like after the Virginia Tech incident. http://social-networking-tagging.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_did_facebook_originate

Why is it Impossible to delete your facebook? Molly Maher: I read an article by Maria Aspan called "How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free ", which was about how difficult it really is to delete your facebook. Many people don't really realize that all your information on facebook is there to stay. Weather you delete your profile or not, the owners of facebook will still have your information. One man named Nipon Das described facebook as, " It's like the Hotel California, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave." Aspan, then goes on to talk about the process of deleting your account. Facebookers think that by clicking one button, it deletes all your information. Unfortunately, this is not true. If you are trying to delete your account, you have to delete your messages, wall posts to other people, your wall posts, groups, etc. It is such an extreme to delete all of those and to hunt down who and when you wrote one someone's wall that this could take awhile. Though if you do delete everything, the owners of facebook will still have all your information. They keep records of everyone's information, even after someone has deleted their facebook. Aspan interviewed a numerous people who in the past didn't like facebook and attempted to delete their facebooks. Many of them had to write to many different people to get their information off the internet. One man even threatened a lawsuit against facebook to remove his information. All in all, Aspan concludes the possiblities of deleting your facebook and what work goes into TRUELY getting everything off of the site. ([]) This article makes me think about why should I even have a facebook if i can not get rid of it? Why is it so difficult to get rid of it ? What do the owners of facebook do with the information? Why can't the delete button just get rid of everything? Who do you write to get rid of all your information? I have many more questions about this subject, but i just find it interesting that it is so difficult to delete your facebook page. I don't understand why you can't just click the button and have everything deleted from their database or any other place they keep information. I wonder if the users of facebook knew this if they would change the things they put up on their page? Or would they even delete it now? I would like to know more about what gives the facebook owners the right to keep our information even after we deleted and left facebook. I think this text would help research how to get rid of all your information on facebook. You could research what goes into fully deleting your page. Or even research who uses your old information and what is the owners of facebook data base really used for?

From Kim Jaxon: I found this short description that explains the goal of social networking sites on the Common Craft website: [|What is Social Networking]

Facebook. The New Big Brother? Stephanie Burke: The article "Inside the Backlash Against Facebook" is about Facebook's feature, "Newsfeed." It is a notification system that lets you know exactly when your Facebook friends have updated their status; ranging from "What's on Your Mind?" to "So and So is Now Single!" For the majority of Facebooks eight million plus users the feature was "too much." They found this to be an invasion of privacy due to the fact that you can't turn this feature off. 284,000 people have ironically rallied together in Facebook groups to get this feature taken off of Facebook. The group, Students Against Facebook Newsfeed, has linked a formal petition to their page that currently has more than 28,000 signatures. Along with internet popularity, college newspapers have also picked up on this cause, with article headlines such as "Facebook is Watching You." Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Time that "The analogy would be instead of an encyclopedia, it's now news. We're emphasizing what's going on now." Overall Zuckerberg is stating that Facebook is now focused on current situations and media rather than overviews, regardless of privacy. This article raises many questions in my mind and constantly makes me focus on my own "looking glass self." For example, my mom is one of my friends on Facebook and I'm sure she would not enjoy reading about my Labor Day weekend; so I decided not to post any pictures, updates, e.t.c on Facebook over that weekend. Another true life example is one that happened to my friend Taylor. Taylor has the same first and last name of one of our other friends, and recently that other friend got into a new relationship. On Facebook it said "Taylor X is now in a relationship" and because of this tons of people asked her "Who's your new boyfriend?" An obvious annoyance to Taylor. Something I would like to know more about is how in the future will they make these features ones that we can control and not be forced to use? This article can be used when researching privacy factors of social media/ Web 2.0. (Article by Tracy Schmidt, Time Magazine Link = [] )

[|60 Minutes-Facebook] Lana Lucchesi - This YouTube video is the story behind Facebook: who and how the big bang started. They show where their work is being done and how their work is pretty much all fun and games. This video shows all the tools involved in Facebook and shows how so many people are joining each day even big political figures are becoming involved. Facebook is growing globally more and more every day. Google fears that Facebook could even start to take over. It also shows how Facebook faced many problems very fast and how Zuckerberg was stressing trying to figure out how to solve them. Questions this raises to me is will Zuckerberg being at such a young age, be able to hand this huge company? Will problems occur too big that he cannot handle? I want to know more about how his life is behind Facebook because in the video he seemed somewhat of a social akward person. I wonder if being behind computers and technology so much made Zuckerberg lack some social skills. This video is good for those who need to know about how the whole website started and what problems keep persisting in Facebook. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

[|acebook Privacy] Alessandra Santana In this article, Jason Kincaid writes about privacy becoming an issue on Facebook. He thinks that if Facebook was to be more private more people would feel comfortable expressing their feelings and writing about their daily activities and life. He points out that when your privacy setting is set to “everyone”, anyone on the internet has access to your page. He talks about how anyone such as employers and parents can view your pictures and page which might not always lead to a good outcome. When managers look for employees they are not looking for someone who has countless pictures at parties, but someone who appears to be somewhat responsible and capable of holding a job. He also advises to carefully choose usernames because they will stay with you for years. I found it interesting that privacy settings until recently didn’t exist. This article also makes me wonder how many teachers or employers actually check their students or employees pages.

[] NEWSWEEK COVER: The Facebook Effect Kelsey Joyce <span style="font-family: Arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">“Facebook has Revolutionized College Life and now it is out for the Rest of the World. A Growing Number of Users are no Longer in College, but Facebook may not be the Perfect Tool for Non-Students Just yet.” Short after the release of Facebook in 2004, drastic change has occurred in a sense that this social site has become more of a tool for those who are no longer college students. Research shows that over half of the 35 million Facebook users are actually not enrolled College students. From the words of the creator himself, Mark Zuckerbeg, along with Senior Editor Steven Levy, Facebook is surprisingly not seen as a social-networking site, but more as a way to transfer information between different users. They also claimed this site was not just meant for College students, although many seem to see it in that way. Zuckerberg himself describes in detail the “social graph” and what the importance of this is. The social graph is defined as a mathematical construct that goes on to map the real-life connections between every individual. It is common for people to communicate through a social graph as they always have. People all over the world continue to sign onto Facebook regularly, with over one million people on a weekly basis. As many can tell just by logging on, Facebook may lack grammar on this site. This is why we may view Facebook as a student based web page. This text shows that each individual uses Facebook for what they want out of it. Each values this social networking site in their own terms. Overall, Facebook is a way to stay connected with other users whether it is family, friends, co-workers, employers, classmates, teachers, etc. It is interesting to see the opinions and thoughts of the creator himself, and also the Senior Editor. Each defines the importance of Facebook in their own terms for their own enjoyment. This text can be useful in viewing opinions of the web and it addresses the effects it can bring. It also goes to show how far the web has come along since the start in 2004. It continues to grow in social aspect, allowing new ideas and tools to be added to enhance it.

[|Facebook is taking over our lives] Callie McMurry- In this article Jessi Hempel discuses the world wide growth not only of the popularity stand point of the social media network Facebook but the financial growth of this popular website as well. Since it's start in 2004 the website has a total of 175 million users to this day, with an average of 5 million more joining every week. The orginal intentions of Facebook was to target the millions of college students and alunms to come together and connect using pictures, comments and the continuous updates of "what are you doings". Though now it has has become a networking tool for adults aging anywhere from twenty five up to seventy five to brand themselves, help them find jobs and even to find love. Now anyone can sighn on to this virtual site and find any friend, long lost relative and their favorite celebrity in the time it takes to simply click a button. Facebook Creator Mark Zuckerberg stated that "Your Facebook ID quite simply will be your gateway to the digital world, We think that if you can build one worldwide platform where you can just type in anyone's name, find the person you're looking for, and communicate with them,that's a really valuable system to be building". The net value of Facebook is continuously growing everyday from the popularity it is receiving world wide. In 2007 Microsoft invested $240 million for a 1.6% stake in the company bringing the net worth of Facebook to an outstanding 15 million dollars. So not only is facebook taking over our wallets but our lives as well, an average individual reads the google news for 13 minuets a month, compared to the average facebook user who spends an average of 169 minutes a month lurking every square inch this site has to offer. In the end Facebook is not just a simple website designed to bring the youth of the world together in one cyber land, but to connect people of all ages, races and finical standings to help better themselves and the other facebook addicts all over.

[|Facebook: All Your Stuff is Ours, Even if You Quit] Allie Boone-This controversial article explores the newly implemented Facebook conditions of agreement. As of February 2009, Facebook changed its terms of service to say that all content ever posted on a Facebook page will essentially belong to them. After posting anything to Facebook, even if your account is deleted later down the road, Facebook still has the right to your content. “Sure, most users don’t really care (or think they don’t care) about all this, but the idea that you now cannot stop Facebook from using your content should you ever want to is frightening to say the least.” The author points out that although people may not care what they are posting on their Facebook pages at the time, they need to think of the repercussions of their actions on this social media site. These new terms of service are extremely alarming when it comes to privacy on the web. The author also points out that all people on Facebook are giving up their rights to use or modify their information to a private corporation. He also points out that even if you aren’t on Facebook, your personal privacy can be violated if you are mentioned or in a photo, even if you are not tagged. The idea of never being able to take yourself completely off the Internet and protect your identity is alarming to think about. Giving up the rights to your personal self just to connect with friends on Facebook may not be worth it anymore. This article raises the question for me exactly what I want to post on Facebook. I want to keep my account to keep connected with friends and family, and considering the fact that they already “own” everything I have on there, it would be pointless to delete my account. I find it interesting that Facebook has been around for so long, yet they just decided to change their terms of service. And knowing this face, I have to wonder why new members continue to join the network. Anyone who is interested in privacy on the web and social networking could use this article in their research. This also helps promote the fact that people should be more cautious about what they put on the Internet because you may never be able to take back what you have posted.

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/05/24/iran-bans-facebook-for-the-second-time-before-presidential-elections/ Kevin Kirberg- In this article it states that back in 2006, Iran had banned Facebook and even YouTube saying these social network sites are illegal. Facebook was since unblocked and has now that Iranians can use Facebook, it has made it the 10th most viewed website in Iran. There has been no explanations on why Iran in the first placed banned facebook and now randomly opened it to the public. But now again right before Irans Presidential election, Facebook was banned for the second time.But apparently, that hasn’t been the government’s strategy this election season. On Saturday morning, Facebook users in Iran logged in to Facebook to find that the site was no longer available. The timing of this Facebook ban comes less than 20 days before presidential elections on June 12, when President Mahmoud Ahmadirejad is running for re-election against reformist candidate and former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi. The ban appears to try to stop Mousavi’s growing political campaign which he now has over 6,000 supporters on Facebook. I found this quit interesting because in a sense it seems like the elections are almost rigged. Stopping someone from campaigning to try to win. From a person who lives in Iran, it would seen like you have no say in the election. Banning you to advertise the presidential candidate you want to win. We can use this research to show that Facebook not only is for people to connect and stay in touch with each other but how it can be used to spread news about something, or in this case help some campaign for an election.

 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article763859.ece Facebook Changing Communcation

Katlyn Brock- This article states that Facebook is the main source of communication on the web and it helps with communication in real life. Many teenagers aren't social with their parents because they don't want them to know what they are really doing with their time. Teens manage to keep conversations short with their parents but Facebook is a way for a parent to find out what is going on in a child's life. Like stated in the article Ms. Van Der Spank would check the updates of her mutual friends with her daughter and would try and bring up conversation about her friends so that they would have something to talk about and her daughter wouldn't just give her one word answers and shut her out. But also Facebook helps people get connected with family that doesn't live around you or its a way for a family to learn more about you. Ms. Van Der Spank's mother added her on myspace and the first thing she wanted to do was just get rid of it because she didn't want her mother to really know what she does but then she thought she is doing the same thing to her daughter and it is actually helping their relationship and maybe it would do the same for them. In my own experience my mother added me on Facebook ad I thought there was no way in the world that I was going to add her and let het know my secrets but after a while I decided what the heck I will just add her and it really did help with our communication, she knew what was happening in my life and she definitely liked talking to me about it. From this article I wonder if there was no such thing as Facebook would parent and child communication just not even happen, would children just shut out there parents during their teenage years. Up until I had Facebook thats how it was for me, I never wanted to talk to my parents about anything unless I had to. It just seems really odd how one communication internet site changes everyone communication, because they used to have chat rooms and blogging spots before Facebook and parents never checked up on those, so why Facebook?

Torrey Francois http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/06/24/five-things-that-could-kill-facebook/ This article briefly explains five reasons that would potentally end Facebook. The Author tells about how businesses are taking advantage of the millions of page views per day and using advertising to get their product out. This will eventually cause a trend that will make Facebook not useable, due to the over crowding of advertisments. The author also explains how user's "inboxes" will become cluttered with random "friend requests" and this will add to the reasons for leaving Facebook. Since Facebook is going world wide, this raises more "noise" which users may find annoying becasue the site will become to busy and hectic. A major thing that will cause Facebook's demise, would be if Facebook becomes a business that is focused on meeting expectations for Wall Street. Once this happens Facebook will become know as a "sell out" which users will not find appealing, thus leaving it. The last thing that will happen to Facebook is Fatigue. Fatigue happens to everything, nothing lasts forever. Once people stop logging into the site, maybe only once a week or month is when the decline of Facebook will begin. It will simply stop being popular and it will be out used. I want to know if there are more than just these five reasons that will end Facebook. Someone could use this in thier research by using it as a source or prediction of how facebook will become obsolete or replaced. When will Facebook truely end? What will be the next thing to come out and replace it? Until that day we won't really know, we will just have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Torrey Francois Facebook: Profits and scandals? In the this article by the New York Times, talks about how companies have invested in Facebook to make a profit from advertisements. It states that componies outside of America are involving themselfs. A Russian company by the name of Digital Sky Technologies invested $200 million to recieve almost a 2% stake. Microsoft apperently invested $240 million at 1.6% per stake before the $5 billion drop in October 2007. So far Facebook has raised around $600 million since its creation in 2004. The article also includes that Facebook has a lawsuit pending. Three Harvard students claim that they created Facebook and that Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea after the students hired him to write code for the site. Facebook, however, has denied all allegations. This article has raised a few questions for me. What if Facebook was stolen? How much profit are companies making off of Facebook? How long will Facebook continue to make a profit? I belive Facebook will continue to stick around for many years and will become a massivley profitable company. http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/business/companies/facebook_inc/index.html

Ankara Nguyen [|Facebook is bringing Web 2.0 mainstream] In this article the author brings up how there are technological vocabulary people have no clue what they are. If you would take a survey and ask random people what RSS, widgets, API and etc are you will mostly be returned with blank faces. Now if you were to ask a facebooker what RSS is they will say they don't know what it is and don't use it. However, the RSS is the news feed on facebook. Facebook is teaching people all Web 2.0 features without them knowing. Facebook is rewording all the terms for people so they remember what it is and know what it is. Facebook is bringing Web 2.0 mainstream. Web 2.0 isn't mainstream yet but will with facebook. Web 2.0 needs to be humanized before it will be mainstream. Meaning teaching society what all these words mean and what does each feature do relating to Web 2.0. Myspace, hi5, and friendster have helped reinforcing the features however Facebook is teaching people. This relates to Web 2.0 because this article talks about Web 2.0 and the what Web 2.0 has. Also my research will deal with Facebook so this links Facebook and Web 2.0. When I saw these terms I was wondering what they were but they are used in facebook, so I must know what they are just in simpler terms. The world wide web is one mysterious open-ended place where everything can be found; not everyone can know about internet terms, platforms, etc. You can learn just enough knowledge however you won't be able to learn everything. This article brings to light how people will know how to do certain things however won't know the right terms for them. Meaning they are clueless when people say the actual scientific terms. This article even defines the terms of RSS, Wiki, and others. Introducing the real definition of Web 2.0 and components.

Sarah Machado http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/16/technology/hempel_facebook.fortune/index.htm In this article Jessi Hempel explains how it was Mark Zucherberg’s plan to create an online reality when he first founded facebook. Like in real life, facebook can take up a lot of your time if you end up talking to someone or start looking at pictures on someone’s page. Since 2004, facebook has become more popular among not just college students, but also adults It now has 175 million users and is growing 5 million every week not just in the U.S. but all around the world. Zucherberg’s ultimate goal is “to turn facebook into the planet's standardized communication (and marketing) platform.” Zucherberg predicts that someday we will be able to type in anybody’s name and be able to find and communicate with them on facebook. Some questions that this article raises for me is that if facebook becomes so big, will it eventually start cutting off human interaction? Can relationships on facebook sustitube for interacting with others socially? I found this article interesting because I get on facebook all of the time and it was interesting to find out how it all began and what Zucherberg plans are for facebook’s future. This text was very useful about the founding and goal for facebook. Facebook is a digital world just waiting to be explored.

Mercedes Jimenez [] The article “Facebook Broke My Heart” published by The Boston Globe discusses how Facebook, one of the biggest social networking sites in cyberspace, affects relationships in the physical world. Many of the individuals interviewed for the article point out how Facebook allows them to connect with old flames and crushes. Not only can they connect with them, but Facebook can be used as a spying tool on their more personal life. A person can find out who is dating who and what that person does on a daily basis just by looking at their page. The article explores how some relationships are destroyed because of the invasion of privacy. A person is alerted at their significant other’s activity and may cause unnecessary jealousy which may lead to arguments and strains on relationships. Also, the content on a person’s Facebook page may be misinterpreted and cause issues for that person’s social life. This article highlights the fact that Facebook is just a social networking site and should not be taken too seriously. The repercussions of taking the content of this website seriously include tension, arguments and ultimately the end of relationships. This article enlightens any Facebook user and reminds them that the website is solely for socializing and should not be used as a person’s only source for maintaining relationships.

Tega Okoro [] The article "The Benefits of Facebook "Friends" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Socail Network Sites"published by the Department of Telecomunications, Information Studies,and Media Michigan State University discusses how facebook has been a huge success as a media mainstream phenomenon. Facebook is a popular online social network site, and has become the formation and maintence of social capital that connects people together. Facebook allows users to present themselves in an online profile in which they can join groups or meet people with similar interests,hobbies, musical tastes, or romantic relationships through profiles. A contribution that facebook is doing is that its social capital is said to have been linked to a variety of positive social outcomes, such as better public health,lower crime rates, and more efficient financial markets. Facebook is generally very productive to the society and social capital. Although their may be some negatvies involved just like all theings in life, perhaps in this case the postive outweights the bad. Facebook helps keep the connection between people even when they move away from eachother. Facebook is very beneficial whether buisness, neighborhood, family, or friends, its all positively strenghtend by the help of facebook.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Jason Conrad The future of facebook

This was an interview between time magazine and the CEO of facebook Mark Zuckerbreg. Mr. Zuckerberg created face book in his Harvard dorm room. They go back and forth talking about the future of facebook and what is going to become of it. The main point Mr. Zuckerberg was trying to get across to Time magazine was that facebook has a bright future and he doesn’t plan on selling any time soon. He makes this point by talking about all the new things going on in the company and how it is still a growing network. He calls facebook “a social utility rather than a social network.” It was interesting hearing what he has to say about how the company is evolving. I like how this was an interview and not an article. I found it easier to understand when you hear it in questions being asked and answers to those questions being given. Is crazy to see that companies are trying to buy these sites from people for 1billion dollars. What makes something worth that much money? How do you create something like facebook? This interview was interesting because it kind of gave you the whole scoop of facebook. It talked about how it was created. It talked about where it was created. You learned a little bit about the life of the creator and how his workday of this billion-dollar company is just like a lot of other people’s workdays. This would be a good interview to read if you are interested in what the CEO of facebook thinks the future holds for his company. You can find this interview at <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 27px;">[]

Jacob Coday

In this article the author seems to be talking about the benefits of Twitter and how Facebook is trying to make changes to keep up with Twitter. The main thing that Facebook changed was "status updates." They changed it to be more like twitter by asking "What’s on your mind, which is very close to Twitter’s “What are you doing?”. With this change you will have to respond to in 160 characters or less. Some subscribers are not happy, but Facebook is changing some of its sites features to appeal to companies, schools, and new station. Facebook is also trying to catch the attention of the young adults like twitter. In the text it said “that one out of five Internet users between the ages of 18 and 34 had used Twitter.” The article points out that Twitter has become popular because it is more real times. People use Twitter to provide updates on events as they are happening. For example, people had live updates after the plane crash in Buffalo. Facebook wants to be like that. The big question that comes to me after reading this article is why can’t these two platforms both be successful? Facebook is more of a social setting where friends can discuss what is happening in their lives. It provides a place to interact with people. I ask myself; why change something that isn’t broken? There are plenty of people who enjoy Facebook better than Twitter because it is different. This confuses me because Facebook is very popular the way it is. I would be interested to find out if their subscription numbers have changed during these changes. The thing I find interesting is that Twitter is becoming a tool of the corporate world. They are using it for instant feedback on products and services. I believe you could use this text in a couple of different ways. First you could use it in the way that twitter right now is the top social network site and all the other are try to compete with it. Another way you could use it is that even social network site change so that they can feel accepted. This text helps our class by showing how these two different forums can be useful if we understand how each works. http://www.uwire.com/Article.aspx?id=3874404

Mark Smith**Facebook and Information Ownership**In February of 2009, Facebook made a change to their mandatory licensing agreement, deleting a provision that ensured that when a user deleted his or her account, the information relevant to that individual would be deleted and Facebook's license to that information would expire. The change to their licensing agreement gives Facebook the right to retain users’ content and licenses after they have terminated their account.This [|NY Times Article] describes some of the media reaction to this change and the details of the licensing agreement. Basically the bottom line is, if you have an account on facebook and decide to remove any form of information, they have legal rights to retain and distribute that information after you remove it from your page. Kind of makes you think a little bit about the information you choose to put on the internet. The ideas behind this article could be useful in a discussion about the formation of an identity on the internet, or about the value of personal data as a commodity and how Web 2.0 has made it much easier to harvest and distribute that data.

As a note- since this article was published, Facebook has released a statement wherein they describe the elements of their process (an information sharing process) that render this sort of licensing arrangement necessary and also offers their sincere assurances that the folks at Facebook do not intend to abuse anyone's information.

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Ivor Tossell explains the thin line on internet friendships and the competition between Google, MySpace, and facebook today. There are many widgets that push ‘friendship’ today. One facebook widget, “ It's entitled "People you may know," and it contains the names and faces of people that Facebook thinks you might recognize but haven't yet added to your list of "friends"” (Tossell). Also the through different ways when friending facebook pops up with ‘this person is new will you suggest some friends’. Meaning friends will tell their friends to add you. Causing “Facebook is trying to foist upon us people whom we likely want nothing to do with. Are we at the point when the legions of people who have been involuntarily "friended" will start pushing back”(Tossell). Tossell speaks of “**Social networks** are famous for employing the term "**friendship**" loosely, but here we hit a wall. If you need a computer program to remind you who your friends are, they're probably not really your friends” (Tossell). This article is letting us know that most of our “friends” through social networking sites aren’t our actual friends. Also social networking sites won’t work together and will continue to compete for our allegiance to their site.======

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This article relates to my research of Web 2.0 because it talks of internet friendship and how it’s fake for most of it. The web is the major holding area for social networking where my research stands. Friendship online is included in Web 2.0. This article gives clarity the mystery of web friending also the inner workings of social networking sites.======

In the blog post “Changing in Communication by Facebook” <span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Jourdyn Hunsaker, a Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about the pros and cons of Facebook and how it is changing Communication. Some of the pros in his opinion is that it is an easier way of keeping in touch with people rather than just calling people or meeting up with them. He also states that “Facebook is a beneficial and entertaining aspect of life that has changes the way the world communicates”(Hunsaker). Some of the Cons he had discovered was that it has caused users to be PC potatoes and it also is used often as an object to procrastinate from homework. Also, he says that it is ruining the way of making friends in person and now they are making it easier just by adding random people and making friends that way, so then in person communication is getting shut down. People of all ages are now switching to the new way of communication. Hunsaker believes it’s changing the world “Facebook may have started off just for fun and enetertainment, but now it is an essential part of life” (Hunsaker). <span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> Work Cited Hunsaker, Jourdyn. “Changing in Communication by Facebook.” //The Cool Crews Blog.// The Cool Crews Blog. 8 Sept. 2008. Web. 23 Oct. 2009.

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