What started out as a U.S. college students’ project, has now exploded into a mainstream phenomenon. If you haven’t heard about Facebook, it is a vastly growing site that allows users to create profiles and socialize with one another. When I started using Facebook, I was amazed by the number of friends that I found were already Facebookers or FBs. To add an extra “fun factor” to FB, developers have created Applications such as “Happy Hour,” “Moods,” “Fortune Cookie,” and “Food Fight” to enhance the socialization process. For added privacy, FB also allows users to change security settings. You could change your security settings as tight as Fort Knox or let everyone see your profile.
The biggest concerns about FB is the possibility of profile breaches, predators, viruses through Applications and fake members, and the main fact that FB is so addictive. If you tried to delete or suspend your account, FB asks you why. All in all, FB is worth a try!
Scholarly Articles about Facebook:
A Familiar Face(book): Profile Elements as Signals in an Online Social Network Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Proceedings of the SIGCHI. 2007; p.435-444. (retrieved from www.msu.edu)
Had some thoughts about this a couple of weeks ago, but..as always i tend to forget things like this.