I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You: Reflection Social Media began affecting our communication and relationships as early as 1969 when the first internet service provider become available to U.S. universities. In 2002, Friendster, the first social media website available to the U.S. was created and gained over 3 million members in just over 3 months. One year later, MySpace launched. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, a 24-year-old Harvard student, created Facebook, an online social networking service. This service was originally a way for students to interact. Today it is the world’s largest social networking service and allows over a billion users to connect though posting photos, sharing links, and comments which all appear on a “News …show more content…
Are we spreading ourselves too thin among our “weak ties,” leaving us with fewer close relationships? There are both positives and negatives to social networking. After reading his article, I began to reflect on my own experiences and looked further into the information he presented. I found Thomas’s piece to be extremely accurate and I agree with the majority of his claims. Thomas goes deeply into the limited privacy these websites provide, the ambient awareness that brings a whole new meaning to knowing someone, and how your “weak ties” may be stronger, but also impacting your real life relationships. The article made me realize how much this social media craze is affecting our population and myself. Are you concerned people are watching you? If not, let me point out some of your peers that check up on your online presence. Your page on Facebook is viewed nearly 200 times a day. If you are under the age of 18 your profile is somewhat private by default, but after you reach that age it becomes public, unless you manually change it. If your profile is public- family, friends, acquaintances, and people you don’t know are viewing all your information. As Clive mentions, “Browsing Facebook was like constantly poking your head into someone’s room to see how she was doing.” Are you comfortable with your online privacy settings? Are you aware that when accepting the ever changing Terms and Conditions for Facebook, you agree to let outside sources access your
In the last ten to fifteen years accompanying the dawn of social media, means of communication among friends and strangers have been easier than ever. Since its creation in 2004, Facebook has grown into the largest social media site on the Internet with 30 million users and counting. The ability to catch up with former high school friends who are now across the country or see how an aunt in Pittsburgh has been doing since the birth of her son are now as simple as the click of a mouse. However, the amount of “friends” acquired on social media may not be an accurate reflection of how many close relationships one truly shares. In an article from Bigthink.com titled “Do You Have Too Many Facebook Friends?”, Steven Mazie gathers research from Pew Research Center about statistics surrounding Facebook
Social media has been around for a long time and has continued to evolve throughout the years. Facebook is one of the oldest social media platforms and continues to be the “social media behemoth, with nearly two thirds of U.S. adults using this social networking site” (Ruggless 1), even with the creation of newer social media platforms such as, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. While, Facebook is popular among adults, “83% of people who use Instagram and Snapchat are teens” and “22% of Americans both young and old use Twitter today” (“Social Media’s Shifting Sands 64). As the number of new social media platforms continue to increase the use of these platforms will continue to increase as well.
Facebook is currently largest social networking site in the world based on monthly unique visitors – attracting 130 million unique visitors every day (Alexa Inc. 2012). The site’s popularity exploded in 2007 and it bypassed its social networking rival, MySpace, in April 2008 (Phillips 2007). Over the last few years Facebook has impacted people’s social lives in various ways. With its availability on modern smart phones, Facebook enables users to continuously stay in touch with friends, relatives and peers wherever they are in the world as long as they have internet access. It can also group people together who share beliefs and interests and has been known to even reunite lost family members and friends through its enormous social reach
Facebook, a social networking website, has changed the way people communicate with each other. A social networking website is an online platform that allows users to create a public profile and interact with other users on the website. Facebook has even changed our most personal and private conversations and how they are conducted around the world. Since the internet’s birth in 1983, this trend of online communication has been growing. Created in 2004, now registered with more than one billion participants, Facebook’s user numbers surpass even the top four social networking websites combined. According to Wikipedia statistics, Instagram has 300 million registered users, LinkedIn has 200 million users, Classmates.com has 50 million users, and Flickr has 32 million registered users. To be further convinced of the claim that Facebook indeed changes the way we communicate, you would only need to create your own Facebook account and start participating in their social networking experience. Technology and internet usage is fused into every aspect of our society including the style of communication. The launch of Facebook in 2006 also enabled other devices such as touch phones, interactive tablets, and even advanced cars with their own networking capabilities starting in 2007. Facebook is a multibillion-dollar company and is highly recognized for connecting more people than other networks. Facebook’s long-term success can be attributed to providing entertainment, world news, and
In this day and age, social media has become an integral part of our lives. It has created a platform for people to share information instantly and communicate with people all around the world. Facebook is the most outstanding example of successful social media network. According to the first quarter 2015 earnings announcement by Facebook, the site has achieved 1.44 billion active users per month, and 65% of which are daily active users. Other social networking sites such as Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn are also a powerful means of communication. With such a large audience, social networking sites provide ample opportunities to acquire information, network, and connect with friends.
Social networking sites continue to gain in users and popularity. The first social networking sites were created in the 1990’s (Edosomwan et al. 3). These sites included Six Degrees, BlackPlanet, and MoveOn (Edosomwan et al. 3). Some of these sites are still in existence. The most popular social networking site, Facebook, was launched in February 2004 (Edosomwan et al. 4). After 6 years Facebook was noted to have over 500 million active users (Edosomwan et al. 4). As of March 2015, Facebook had 1.4 billion active users (Statista). Social networking sites have changed the way we connect to each
Social networking has been around for years whether it’s facebook, twitter, youtube, myspace, etc. It has been studied since the beginning of the 20th century. A social network service is a web site that allows people to create a public profile for everyone to see. There are both positive and negative effects of social networking. Facebook is the most used and populated website on the web. Facebook was launched seven years ago and has already attracted over a half a billion people around the world and it still continues to grow. Three years ago facebook wasn’t as a popular as it is now with only 8 % of the U.S. population signed on to facebook. Today, more than
The social networking service, Facebook, was created by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate, who both attended Harvard University, and launched Facebook in February 2004 (Phillips, 2007). Once the social networking sight went viral, the website's membership was no longer limited to Harvard students- college students from the rest of the United States and Canada soon started to use the social media service (History of Facebook, 2014). Facebook has become so popular and globally spread, that it is now being used by individuals and businesses worldwide.
According to Forbes, there are about 1 billion social media accounts all over the world, these accounts makes almost all of the countries of the world connected with each other.Social media is a very common in today’s modern world, social media is considered to be one of humanity’s greatest achievements and accomplishments. Never before humans were connected to each other as in today’s world. and almost everybody has a Facebook account, there are about 500 million Facebook accounts. Facebook allow its users to chat with each other, to see each other’s pictures, and to comment on any post. Which is very useful in the business and marketing world.
Social media is one of the many benefits we can count as the most helpful technological advance, we acquire through the year and Facebook is the leading innovation from all social media sites. Facebook is an online social media and social networking service based in California, USA. The website was launched on February 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard college student and roommate, Eduardo Saverin, Anderw McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes (Wikipedia, 2017). Since the launch people are using it for different purposes including education,
The newest social networking site, Facebook has opened up an exciting online world that has enabled millions of people around the world to connect with each other. Facebook provides its members a way to make new friends, keep in touch with current friends, and find old friends and family anywhere in the world without ever having to leave their home. Since its introduction to the public in 2005 Facebook has experienced phenomenal growth and has become the world’s most popular social networking site, far surpassing that of the previous favorites MySpace and Twitter.
Facebook is one of the most common social website that connects people with their friends and family. Facebook has a unique way of sharing information, including news feeds, photos, and many more which makes it very popular. In the book The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is connecting the World, Kirkpatrick mentioned that, “Social networking has now extended across the entire planet. Facebook is the world’s largest such network. It is the rare high school and college student who does not routinely use Facebook or MySpace” (85). Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and it has been part of the popular culture. This social network has many cool features like “liking” someone status or photos, and private
Facebook Inc. was founded on July 29, 2004 as a social networking company by Mark Zuckerberg. Before Facebook, Zuckerberg attended Harvard University as a psychology major. Facebook was originally called The Facebook and was created for the purpose of social networking for students that attended Harvard, it didn’t take long for Facebook to gain popularity (Reuters, 2015). Now, almost 11 years later Facebook is a $234 billion company with 1.19 billion active users. Facebook’s market cap is just under that of Walmart; which is the world’s largest retailer (Lange, 2015). Facebook incorporated has gained popularity for the ease of use for users to network all over the world. Even though many people only know of Facebook’s social networking aspects, Facebook owns a few applications and products, and has a huge project in the works called Internet.org; in which they have collaborated with big name companies to complete. Facebook’s success is thriving from the ability to make great investment that will benefit them later, along with engaging users in different aspects of social networking and always “Biggering and Bettering” their brand. The company’s goals, user interactions, the satisfaction of its users and overall business practices are what makes them so great,
When Facebook was originally created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. It was made specify for students at Harvard University (Best 21). A few years later Facebook became a means of communication to over 1 billion users. Facebook gave users the ability to connect with anyone in the world at the click of a mouse. Users were able to post their day-to-day activities on their timeline and were also able to talk to my family member’s co-workers, and anybody else in between. On Facebook users can be friends with anyone share photos, and meet new people. With a Facebook account; users felt comfortable with themselves. They were able to join Facebook groups that include people that had similar interests as them. User were able to communicate with
From this year the most important social networks were created. Firstly, MySpace was launched and attracted millions of users. In 2004 Facebook is created by Mark Zuckerberg which will generate a new generation of social media. All features are gathered to seduce the growing audience (340 Millions Facebook users in 2009).