The Irresistable Facebook
I should have heeded my first Facebook friend’s warning – stop now before it’s too late. I couldn’t, I was hooked already. Which is really ridiculous considering how often I get tagged, invited, myspaced, linked in etc and manage to resist all of them all these years. “I have my whole own blogazine dudes, why would I need Facebook?” Wrong. Facebook is the new Google. (or old some wisened types would mock.)
Over the years there have been loads of social networking sites that I have joined: the school one, to find out where those mates live who were never really your mates, the business one – where you have the chance to network with like-minded business contacts and the only person you hear from works in agriculture in Laos, the travel one – that only let’s you know about a travel special when you cant go, the photo-album sharing one that does work, the video sharing that is awesome etc.
But somehow Facebook seems to have the right formula – maybe because it combines all of the different ‘genres’ of social networking into one – so you can find school mates, business mates and mates of mates.
I think that the voyeuristic side to Facebook is also appealing – sneaking a look at your friend’s mates and finding your ex-boyfriends photo and name – nothing like being able to check him out and see how well he’s aged 🙂
Then the interface is simple, minimalist, user-friendly and easy to use… We have to recommend it. I know I am gushing and it’s old news, but waiting a long time for something often makes it much more big a deal when it eventually happens 😉
So we’re in. Are you? Get onto Facebook if you aren’t already.
Wikipedia tells us:
Facebook is a social networking website. It was originally developed for college and university students but has since been made available to anyone with an email address. People can select to join one or more participating networks, such as a high school, place of employment, or geographic region.
As of February 2007, the website had the largest number of registered users among college-focused sites with over 25 million members worldwide (also from non-collegiate networks).[1]
Facebook is the number one site for photos in the United States, ahead of public sites such as Flickr, with over 6 million photos uploaded daily.[2] It is also the sixth most visited site in the United States.
