You Have No Friends by Farhad Manjoo

The author illustrates in her blog the power and impact Facebook had on the population by convincing to be “a place of human connectivity,” but

Facebook is an online social networking website that makes it easy for a person to connect and share with family and friends online. The program was first designed and created by college students in 2004, and by the year of 2006 it became very huge with many especially with those of age 13. The reason why many love Facebook and why is it so unique it has the ability to connect and share with the people that a persons cares about at the same time. Or with others they would like to be friends with, without ever meeting because the network lets you connect with many around the world, almost like a pen pal sort of way. Facebook has become so

In this modern era, social media has become an inseparable part of our daily life. It has become a modem of communication. People from distance places get connected with each other which has made has the world smaller virtually. Today it has been possible for me to know about family and friends being abroad. With over 1 billion user, Facebook has become the most popular sites among all the social media sites. Facebook is a site where people get to share their feelings. People of different age group and use Facebook for different purpose reflecting different personalities.

It’s quite fascinating that in the early 2000’s social media wasn’t even invented; yet statistics show that Facebook has accumulated users surpassing the entire population of the United States. The

Facebook is estimated to have over 845 million users, mostly college-aged young adults. Its explosive growth and reputation in social networking have made it not only a market leader, but also a household brand name. The audience is global (excluding China) and the site has now been translated into 70 different languages.

One social networking service has taken the Internet by storm. The world's most popular and well-known social networking web site, Facebook enables users to connect with friends, colleagues, and family by sharing updates about their status, personal photos and videos, and other items of interest . The site also allows sending personal messages or chats with other users, make public an event and invite guests, promote various public pages, and interaction with members with common interests (Rouse). Mark Zuckerberg, a student at Harvard University, launched “The facebook,” as it was initially know, in February 2004. It extended to various United States High Schools and other universities in the United States such as the Ivy League, and eventually began to spread worldwide. As of September 2006, Facebook can be used outside of educational institutions, as the site can be used by anyone (Phillips). As of June 2017, web site has two billion monthly active users, making it the most popular and used social networking web site (Welch). Facebook has changed the world in numerous ways, such as faster assimilation of information, how we keep in touch with others, express yourselves and our sentiments, and share moments of our lives in a click of a button, how we interact each with each other, and how it displays the current events of the world (Wagner). Facebook also has a fair share of its positive and negative effects. Some of the positive effects are it allows people to keep in

It 's clear that social media has grown dramatically over the last few years and that with more than 800 million active users, the number of Facebook users is easily more than twice the size of the entire population of the United States!

Facebook is the utmost popular social interacting site of all time. Within six years, Facebook has experienced affected growth—it has about touched more than a billion users and is still growing quickly.

In recent years, Facebook has been growing constantly in almost every country of the world. It became one of the most successful companies with “more than two billion users (Mozur et al, 2017)” .

As discussed before, Facebook holds a strong position in the market. With 51% active users in 2013, the company also reached roughly double the amount of virtual operators compared to its competitors. As a comparison, Google+ with 25%, Youtube with 21% and Twitter with 21% are relatively far from the market leader’s 51% (Marketline, 2013, pp. 4-5). These numbers make clear the extraordinary scope as well as the influence Facebook enjoys on the social web. Having such a dominant global position, the network offers businesses the chance to connect with customers all over the globe. Primarily used on an American campus back in 2004, the platform is currently available in almost any nation and has been translated into 70 languages (Marketline, 2013, p. 4).

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 is a relatively new and has certainly made an impact on our lives. Facebook as changed the way young people today communicate. With over 800 million users and available in 70 languages Facebook is one of the fastest growing companies. Could Facebook be indeed taking over our lives? The answer for this question will try to be explored in the first part of this essay. It is certainly clear that Facebook has made an

Since this version of the text is about seven years old, it is slightly outdated when talking about the topic of online communication. The text mentions of Facebook having 30 million users, it now has over 1.5 billion users (“Global Social Networks”, November, 2015). Also, the manner in which the site and company is ran differs from the description in the book of it simply being a combination of individual social networks. The reason I point out these differences is to show how quickly online communication is growing.

When Hartshorne, Ajjan, and Cao (2016) conducted their study, they observed that there has been a significant increase in the number of social networking websites today. Indeed, Jacobsen and Forste (2011) argue that social networking websites have become an international phenomenon in recent years, with many individuals, especially teens and young adults becoming obsessed and addicted to this

Facebook has grown to be the number one social network site utilized in the world. The