When Mark Zuckerberg was working on improving popularity of his social network website back in 2005, I was just another student living in college dorms enjoying social experience. At that time facebook was mostly available only at selected colleges and was just making its way through to open public. When I first registered myself on it, I had to indicate what school I go to and prove that I was a student. Although there were many skeptical people about it, I was pretty convinced for some reason that facebook was going to be big. And I need to admit that I was more in to myspace in the beginning, facebook totally “stole” my heart with time going by.
In the very beginning it was difficult for me to see any possible advantages coming from being a part of another social network that really did not show benefits at all. Why did I do it though? Maybe out of boredom, maybe I was looking for something that would finally work out for me when it comes to staying in touch all of my friends spread literally all over the world. Yea, there are instant messaging communicators available and yea we talked a lot with each other, but I think all of were looking for something more than just the opportunity of conversation and status updates.
What strikes me the most about it is its functionality and high intelligence (if you can even say that about social network). You probably know that whenever you register somewhere, you have to make strives for finding your friends and it really takes time before you connect with someone. Facebook on the other hand does that for you. It simply facilitates search for your friends and makes it easier not only for you to find them but also for them to know that you are now around. On top of that by joining facebook you can be sure that you are around educated people. The statistics show that a little bit more than a half of registered users already