Facebook observation, by Michelle 96540451

As we all know, facebook is one of the giants in the social network arena, it helps people keep in touch all the time. With the click of a mouse, BING! You are there, and if you are lucky enough you can facebook your friend online, like a chat room, which is very convenient because you are not only keeping track of people’s life, but you are also following their latest updates on their walls. I think it was a few American guys who set up this social network at the very first, of course they didn’t know it could cause such a huge influence to most people’s everyday life. So was I, I’ve heard about facebook about two years ago, but it wasn't as popular as it is right now.
Before facebook, I think most people in the States used Friendster, and then MySpace. Catching up with this popularity, I did join the network years ago searching for a way to kill time. Now I switch to FB when I have time, I play games there, and I upload pictures too, it works more like a personal blog so that your friends can keep track of what’s happening to your life and so on, but you have to be willing to SHARE at first. I’d have to admit that its popularity indeed is swelling. I remember seeing a chart somewhere rating all the social networking websites out there, and Facebook broke into the top 20 most popular websites among millions of other websites in the market, which is amazing. However, what exactly drives this popularity around the globe anyway? I assume there wouldn’t be just one right answer, because people see things differently, but if we are speaking from a socializing aspect, then it is rational why this is so popular, other reasons might have to do with the services it provides, the user-friendliness, the content, the quality of design, you name it.
And as far as I know, Facebook is not only invented for the youths but is also attracting adults, I see moms and dads, even grandpas are updating their own pages, which is very cute, you know, it is just hard to believe that even the SENIORS are catching up with the trend!!