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Facebook is the biggest social networking phenomenon in the world. This means that it affects millions of people and the way they communicate with and interact with their friends and families. It gives a whole new medium for people to share information, talk, and upload photos to their friends. This allows a whole different kind of communication and information sharing than what was available before. Facebook is an entire new medium from which many people share almost every aspect of their lives with their friends and peers. (Facebook, 2010)
Before Facebook, most communication and information sharing happened either face to face or through cell phone communication. However, this limited the scope and the amount of people information could be shared to at a single time. Facebook changed this. Now, you can share information to your whole social network of friends and family all at once.
Facebook makes communication:
The ease of this communication causes people to share more information about what they are doing and what they are feeling than ever before. Someone can easily sign into Facebook and share with all their friends that they are currently writing a research paper, for example, whereas before, usually this sort of information would not be shared with all the people they knew. It has increased sociability between people. (Keenan and Shiri, 2009) Facebook can be accessed from almost anywhere. Any computer with internet access and most cell phones can log into Facebook. (Facebook, 2010) This gives users an almost ever-present link to their social network no matter where they are. Users can share news about their trip to Europe in real time, or post pictures of a concert they are attending as they take them. This ever-connected feeling keep people informed of each others’ lives keep people linked together even if they are thousands of miles apart. (Keenan and Shiri, 2009)