Kristen - Facebook: Social Utility site

Since the beginning of Facebook, it has become the second largest social utility site on the Internet--Myspace being the first, only in terms of traffic and how many people are entering the site each day. It's very clear to see the reason Facebook became so popular, so quickly: it began as only a social utility for select college campuses, then expanded to all college campuses and onto high school students, geographical locations and now anyone with a functioning email address is capable of having their own Facebook page.

Social networking has become the new big thing to do on the Internet and Facebook is an outlet for people all over the world to do just that. While reading a biography of Facebook, I learned that Facebook was pretty much started on a whim by former Harvard grad, Mark Zuckerberg, and he had a bit of financial help from a close friend. Zuckerberg managed the site out of his dorm room at Harvard while he was still enrolled as a student and the website has since exploded into the must-have in terms of social networking. However, Zuckerberg stresses that Facebook calls itself a social utility because it was made for just that: a way for people to socialize, rather than a social network which is defined as a site in which serves a certain goal. With the ability to post photos, comments ,wall posts and send messages to friends, there is no doubt that soon Facebook will be the most popular social utility site on the Internet.

TIME magazine interview with Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg