Mark Zuckenburg founder of Facebook
"Look what this bitch wrote on my friend Amy's wall!" said my very offended friend. "Her boyfriend is totally gong to flip out!" At first I was offended too, but then I thought ‘Wait, I don't even know these people, why should I even care.'
What is it about facebook that causes so much social drama? When one terminates their facebook, they must take a survey. One of the questions asks why you are terminating your facebook page. One of the options is "facebook causes me too much social drama." Even with all this social drama, over 60 million people use facebook everyday! Just judging from the drama I hear about in my sorority revolving around facebook, I'm guessing hundreds of relationships are ruined everyday through the social network. Drama on the site is not the only controversy; there is also controversy over who actually founded the web site.
Facebook was founded by a Harvard Sophomore Mark Zuckerburg in 2004. It was first opened just to Harvard Students but has since broadened to other college students and now everyone.
Two or three other Harvard students claim that Facebook was their idea first and Zuckerburg was hired by them to do the web coding. While hired to encode Zuckerburg allegedly stole the idea and has since made billions. Zuckerburg denies these allegations. Facebook has been sued by these three students and the case is currently pending in a federal district court in Boston.
Many college students believe that facebook and hit it's peak and is on the down ward slope. The new features offered, like the applications and availability to everyone has only made it less appealing to the original college users. What will the drama thriving college students do when facebook is gone???
Don't worry when facebook is gone I'm sure the "next big thing" will cause an equal amount of social drama. ;) I remember in high school, before Facebook became so popular everyone was using xanga. Xanga caused plenty of drama. If Facebook really has hit it's peak there will be something new soon to take its place.
I don't really see Facebook as "old news" quite yet. Have you walked into the any of the libraries on campus and glanced at people's computers? I bet over half of them are on Facebook. Yeah, there are people that are getting tired of it or that never had it in the first place. And, yes, the applications are SO annoying, especially when you're getting several invites to join them every time you get on. But I think Facebook still has quite a bit of life left in it.
Also, have you heard of Skype? I'm not exactly sure what it is, I think kind of like a phone connection through the internet, but I've heard a lot of people are getting Skype accounts. Maybe this could be the new thing?
"Re-connect," "power your career," "get answers," are the promises LinkedIn gives users who are looking for an alternate, more professional social network. Facebook is not ruined because millions of people still have profiles, but you might want to check this out if you want positive PR for your cyberworld name.