Wednesday, January 24, 2007

First Social Networking Article

http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/09/07/85-of-college-students-use-facebook/


This website is a basic overview of the functions and popularity of facebook via 2004. The author of this article was given a demo of the site and checked out all of facebook's features. He also talks about the people that are not students and therefore cannot log in to this site, as well as the very large numbers that have facebook and log in monthly, weekly, and 60% daily! These numbers are impressive, but since this article is from 2004 I might want to check out more recent statistics on the matter. Finally, he explains the way this company produces money, such as advertisements and sponsors.

Another part of this website as information for social networks is the list of about 200 comments. Hearing views from all different users and nonusers of facebook doesn't lend any factual information but is interesting nonetheless.

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