I completely agree with Maritza. Facebook is here to stay. Facebook has helped people communicate with family, friends and even strangers in a more efficient way. Since Facebook is very user friendly and its interface is clean and less chaotic than other social-network websites, anyone can sign up and interact with their loved ones in a safe environment. Facebook allows you to place different privacy settings on most of the information that you share through the website. On February of this year, Facebook reached over 400 million active users. Facebook is not only being used as a way to stay in contact with friends but also for advertisement, job search, to support a cause, to store pictures, entertainment, and endless reasons. Facebook became more popular when the Developer Platform was integrated and when the application for mobile devices was launched. And although Facebook receives a lot of criticism due to “internet predators” and teen bullying, Facebook is growing in popularity. These are just some interesting Statistics:

•400 Million active Users
•50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day

•More than 35 million users update their status each day

•More than 60 million status updates posted each day

•More than 3 billion photos are uploaded to the site each month

•More than 1.5 local businesses have active Pages on Facebook

•Average user
Has 130 friends on the site
Sends 8 friend requests per month
More than 55 minutes per day on facebook
Writes 25 comments on Facebook content each
month
•Facebook has more than 70 translations available on the site
•70% of FB users are outside the US
•Top 10 Countries
US, UK, Indonesia, Turkey, France, Italy, Canada, Philippines, Spain, Mexico

•More than 100 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile phones

Nevertheless, we should be cautious and not let it replace our real life interactions to the point where it becomes addictive.


Adriana.Gil

Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect friends, family, and business associates. Its the fifth most visited networking site, with the runner up being Myspace. It started off as college networking site only available to Harvard students and other ivy league universities. Now Facebook is Worldwide! To date, Facebook has over 62 million active subscribers worldwide- not including those subscribers who signed up this year. I believe Facebook has become popular for three reasons: uploading pictures, "being in the know", and games. Instead of emailing back and fourth pictures to friends you can easy upload them to your profile page in a album. Facebook saves a lot of time trying to communicate with former friends or relatives. Instead of having to instant message someone what they are doing you can easily see it through a status update. Games have also impacted Facebook's popularity! There are tons to pick from and they are very addictive since you can play against friends. Overall, I believe Facebook was a great idea and in my opinion its here to stay!