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What do Hillary Clinton, Tony the Tiger, and
millions of college students have in common? They
all have profi les on the contemporary social network
known as Facebook.
As a college student, and avid Facebooker,
I intend to share my knowledge and experiences
with the site in order to uncover the reasons behind
Facebook’s widespread success.
As Facebook.com explains, the purpose of
this “social utility” is to keep friends connected and
help people network in a safe online environment.
Mark Zuckerberg, an extremely intelligent
student of Harvard University, created Facebook
three years ago. At the age of 19, Mark and his
college friends launched the site, which began as a
place to connect Harvard students.
Today, Facebook has connections to universi-
ties across the globe, with over 25 million registered
users. If you have a high school or college age child,
chances are they’re very familiar with this popular
site.
Once a fi xation only among college students, Face-
book is quickly expanding in the hope of connecting
a diversity of users. Anyone with a valid e-mail
address can register and create a free Facebook
profi le.
The site is successful because it is changing
the ways in which the world can communicate.
Through Facebook, users create a profi le
where they can express their interests, activities,
favorite movies, shows, books, quotes, and basic
contact information. They can search for their
friends and co-workers, and then click to add them
as their ‘Facebook friend’.
There are countless ways to participate on
Facebook, such as uploading pictures, ‘tagging’ or
identifying ‘facebook friends’ that appear in your
pics, sending messages, writing on friends’ walls,
customizing your profi le, writing notes to publish
on Facebook, and updating your status to allow your
friends to know exactly what you’re up to at any
given time.
With all of these opportunities to connect, it’s
no wonder people (especially students) are spending
hours on this site, and visiting it repeatedly in order
to stay updated with what’s happening in the lives
of their Facebook friends.
Through Facebook, I am connected with 73
different networks, and hundreds of people, from
the U.S to Australia. I can see what my friends who
are currently studying abroad are up to, and view
pictures of their adventures.
Some of my favorite professors are now
Facebook users. The site is an excellent tool for
professors to get to know their students on a more
The Phenomenon of Facebook-
Redefi ning Social Networking
by
Courtney Jewett,
Member of the Alamo PC Organization, Texas
www.alamopc.org/
Courtney_Jewett(at)baylor.edu
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