Recently, we've been reading a lot about the upcoming and yet booming social networking site- The Facebook.
Well, when i was introduced to Facebook, I didnt really like it and find it very very complicating, but as time goes by and some of my friends who keep pestering me to get the hang of it so that i will love it. And yea im loving it.
The reason I'm writing about this post is, 2 days ago, my sister told me that she was unable to get into the another social networking site- Friendster and according to her they are running some maintenance job. When i heard that, i thought for once they are gonna have some good thing to beat the rival networking site, facebook, but my never-work- right instinct never work right again.
This time, friendster turn out to be a disaster whereby most of us lost most of our friends from the contact list after the so called maintenance. I was just wondering why is that so, isnt it suppose to be upgrade then a downgrade?
I learned my lesson that any sites that are given with free services never last long. So i thought facebook would be closing down as well. But after i done a small research online, i found that facebook is not going down but its gonna bring down Google-the search engine mafia.
A lil bit of history of facebook
On February 4th, 2004 Mark Zuckerberg
launched The Facebook, a social network that was at the time exclusively for
Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the student body at
Harvard had signed up. Other schools in the Boston area began demanding a
Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskowitz
and Chris Hughes to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added
30 more college networks.
The original idea for the term Facebook came from
Zuckerberg’s high school (Phillips Exeter Academy). The Exeter Face Book was
passed around to every student as a way for students to get to know their
classmates for the following year. It was a physical paper book until Zuckerberg
brought it to the internet. more
Well, facebook is also ike other social networks, the site allows its users to create a profile page and forge online links with friends and acquaintances. It has distinguished itself from rivals like the larger MySpace, owned by the News Corporation, partly by imposing a spartan design ethos and limiting how users can change the appearance of their profile pages. That has cut down on visual clutter and threats like spam, which plague rival social networks.
So, wait no more, bid good bye to friendster and welcome to facebook, the world 2nd largest social networking site after MySpace.
2 comments:
woowww, great site and great ppl born on the same day...hehe, its my birthday!!!yooohooooo
These networks are great, but at the same time; should we question the interest in such a network??? where does the money churn in to run and mainatain such a network???
To the naked eye, it is amazing to see such an exploding technology; but one needs to consider the technology behind it. For example, it was great when Google made its baby steps into the web universe. They were faced with dilemma when they were asked by the US government to share their data. In such situation what comes of the privacy of the indivudual. I have no clue of the use of facebook back there; but there are any accounts where people have been stalked through these networks. I am not disagreeing that it does also create frienship bonds (we did become frens through facebook)but we should always learn to look beyond the box. I am not favoring paranoya but certain questions needs to be asked. India knows its deal of mischaps through Orkut yet another network just as facebook and friendster yet popular amongst Desis...
Hope to hear back from you soon...
Shathies
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