AndrewHeywoodApril152010

== =FACEBOOK: Who Isn't Using It?=

By: Andrew Heywood heywooda@students.nescom.edu

“Facebook; it is my life and soul,” claims [|Husson University] student John Armstrong. Armstrong claims to use the social networking site every down moment he can admitting, “Facebook is a major deterrent, I can sit on it for hours and not do anything. Though it does help enable my poker fiend.”
 * Bangor, ME** - The only constant is change, and that is what social networking is doing now to everyone, changing them. Days of face - to - face conversations may be over, along with flyers from people on the streets. And who is to blame? Could it be the social networking giant- [|Facebook] ?

For many like Armstrong, it is not hard to find allure behind the site that offers chatting, messaging, and even Farmville. According to [|Facebook’s own statistics] there are over 400 million others like Armstrong and have Facebook accounts. Of those users 50 % of them are signing on daily. Not bad for a website that was started out of dorm rooms. The Facebook page lists four [|co-founders] with the top name being Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg is the CEO of the company located in Palo Alto, California. Zuckerberg came up with the idea while attending [|Harvard University], and along with Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin, built the idea up to the level where it is at now. It seems that everyone is on Facebook. “We use Facebook to post everything that is going on,” said Anne Schmidt. Schmidt is the head of the [|Student Activities department]at Husson University. According to Schmidt the use of Facebook works well, with only one downfall. She wishes for Facebook to make the notifications more aware on mobile devices. “That way students could find out easier what is going on,” said Schmidt.

Like anything there are things people disagree on, but with Facebook it seems like 400 million think it is worth their time. According to Facebook’s stats page the average user spends almost 55 minutes a day on Facebook.

“It connects people, I just found a kid I knew in second grade on Facebook; and I moved in the third grade,” tells Armstrong. “That is why it is great, and has gotten as big as it is. I can’t even think of what would be next.”

With people like Armstrong not needing to be face to face to talk anymore, and universities not needing to use flyers to promote activities on campus, there is only one question left to pose. If change is a constant, and Facebook has changed so much, what next (if anything) will change social media?