Why Facebook?

You may have asked yourself this in the past... if not ask yourself now... why is Facebook so big, so successful, and so addicting? There are probably many different answers and different opinions to this question. I know most would probably answer... "well because everyone's using it". Well, with over 250 million current active users, that statement is a slight exaggeration from the truth. So what are some logical answers??? Here are mine:

I became a Facebook user in September 2005... so for the last four years I have been an active Facebook user. I have also actively used different social media such as Myspace, Twitter, Blogs, etc... and they do not compare to my preference to Facebook because of these reasons...

1. Since the beginning, Facebook has remained simple. You are not allowed to change your page with HTML like Myspace; therefore, Facebook has almost completely avoided clutter.

2. Facebook has made the website readily available to everyone worldwide. Not only that, they have established Facebook applications for many different brands of phones, for example iPhones & Blackberry's to list a couple. Facebook has also created a couple mobile websites for mobile phones like x.facebook.com and m.facebook.com. Finally, Facebook has created a way for their users to update their pages frequently on SMS text messages with 52 different carriers. How much easier does it get?

3. Facebook created networks for people to easily search friends and family. Networks also allow people to connect with different people via different interests, jobs, locations, etc...

4. Facebook allows users to post pictures and "tag" their friends in them. This is another form of networking because it will post links to those friends' pages who are tagged in the pictures.

5. Facebook has also created a way for not only people to create profiles, but company's and celebrities as well.

There are five of the many different answers to a question we must ask ourselves. Why is this site so addicting? Well there it is. We all love Facebook.

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