The last few chapters of the book focus mainly on some of the financial and social aspects of Facebook. They discuss in detail how Facebook was on its way to become a billion dollar company and how the site was starting to integrate itself into the everyday lives of people across the world. For this blog post I would like to focus more on the social aspects of Facebook, especially that which has only come to light in the past year or so.
There was one quote in the last section of the book that really stood out and got me thinking about how much it probably affected a current Facebook trend. The quote was when Mark Zuckerberg asked Larry Page, google's co-founder, if he used Facebook. Page responded saying that the site just was not geared to him. This must have got something rolling in Zuckerberg's head because the next year the influx of adult Facebooker users was astronomical.
Parents and other adult humans seem like the final frontier for new Facebookers and it is certainly taking its toll on how younger users perceive the social network. Speaking from personal experience, in previous years (circa 2003-2004, when I was a young teenager) it wasn't too difficult to keep attitude towards your friends separate from your attitude towards your parents. I looked at it more so as a respect thing. I was still going to be a kid and do really stupid stuff, but I was good enough to do right by my parents and never really get into serious trouble. Facebook is now eliminating that distance that kids try to put between their parents, which is not really a thing, unless you are impervious to embarrassment and invulnerable to groundings. The more I use the Internet, the more I agree that it is a pretty decent tool for emotional outputting, but could get real weird, real fast.
I'm sure most people have seen this site, but it puts into perspective the idea of what I am talking about, here it is. My Parents Joined Facebook
The front page has a flowchart, and while it is meant to be humorous, it has an amount of truth to it.
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