I love Facebook! The social network site has everything such web site needs... but what do others think? Why is facebook so popular and how come it is still expanding like crazy? Below I gathered some pieces of mind of others to get my answer. I guess I caught some interesting thoughts!It plays to people's vanity. People like to talk about themselves, especially when they think they have an audience. Many people post many updates every day on how their day is going. If they have 100 or more friends they may feel that all of their friends are keeping up to date with them, when in fact chances are they've all hidden that person from their News Feed.
Everyone's on it. Facebook reached a critical tipping point where it became wildly popular. It reached that point when it the number of people with a Facebook account, outnumbered the number of people without one. Nowadays, if you don't have a Facebook account you are pretty much a social pariah. The ability of Facebook to merge businesses and entrepreneurs in with individuals is something that other social networks like MySpace didn't do well. On Facebook there's tons of commercial potential, and users don't seem to mind it.
Upload photo’s unlimited. Facebook enables people to upload all of their pictures. You can show your creativity, beauty, strange things you did, beautiful journeys you made and whatever more you want. It could enhance your status and you can tell people through image what keeps you busy.
Instant feedback. The structure of the social network site provides the possibility to give instant feedback on posts and photo’s. You can pick someone’s brain on some topic and share your views.
Instant feedback. The structure of the social network site provides the possibility to give instant feedback on posts and photo’s. You can pick someone’s brain on some topic and share your views.
Those are some thoughts of random Facebook users and analytics, but this blog wouldn’t be complete without your opinion. If you’re willing, I’d be more than interested to know why you think Facebook is so popular. Personally I like Facebook for it being so complete. Sure thing that Facebook provides every means (pictures, text, video etc.) to express yourself. The option to get and give feedback on your thoughts, to connect with friends at any time, and to see what they are doing are key factors of success if you’d ask me!
I think it's so popular because of its low access level - I mean, even my mom has an account which she checks and updates regularly! And she didn't exactly grew up with computers, if you know what I mean.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI personally love it because it is a very easy way to maintain contact with friends whom I met abroad (or friends who went abroad). I also have a lot of relatives living abroad, and FB makes it easy for me to check on how they are doing and take a look at their photos. FB really lowers the threshold for getting in touch with people you normally wouldn't call so easily.
However, I do worry about FB's security, and I wonder whether or not FB saves everything people ever posted on it. What about the protection of people's privacy? Will embarrassing photos or information influence your chances of getting 'that' great job? What if information falls into the wrong hands?
So bottomline: it's an easy tool to get in touch with relatives/friends who live far away. But at the same time, ppl shouldn't get carried away and stop meeting friends in real-life. They also shouldn't put too much personal information on it, and one should be aware of the privacy settings that you can change.
Its all due the like button!
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