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Why did Facebook become such a huge deal? I use Facebook primary to keep up with people that I don’t live near. Before I came to college I used Facebook less but now that I’m away from home I use it to keep up with my high school friends and fellow classmates that have gone to college somewhere else. I see that Facebook is slowly going away because it became very popular and that was the best thing about it. That you were part of an elite group of people and not a lot of people were on it. Facebook became like an infectious disease it was spreading rapidly throughout the public. Facebook was first created for the elite and the more powerful people, it was meet to be very private, but like in the essay about the “corrupted blood” disease some people wanted to infect the entire world. Well Mark was basically one of these people, he wanted not just the elite to have it but the middle class and the poor. Now Facebook wasn’t killing people in the virtual world but in the real world it was affecting people in an even greater way. “People that got on Facebook tended to stay on Facebook longer than any other website.” And you can just imagine how that affected people in almost every aspect of their lives. Facebook as the best place to figure out personal info about someone you just meet. Let’s say you found them attractive and wanted to know if they were single, well then you would just go onto Facebook and look at their relationship status. Now let’s say you want to know a little but more about them before you confronted this person and told them how you felt. Well you could go onto this certain person’s wall and look through all of their posts. We call this cyber stalking someone but it is a great way to find out a lot about someone. Ju...

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...ont the person he misses of want to get to know, he sends her a friend request. I found this funny because I have done this same thing with a girl I used to like. I thought if I sent her a friend request and she excepted it that it meant that she liked me, but the only reason so excepted it was to be nice and so that things wouldn’t be even more awkward between us, or she just wanted to boost her number if friends. For a while Facebook was the way you contacted anybody, it wasn’t by getting their phone number but by telling them to friend you on Facebook. It was like people weren’t expected to have a cell phone but they were supposed to have a Facebook. Facebook finally lost out to the popular vote at the beginning of 2013 and by now there really isn’t anyone that will ask you to friend them on Facebook, instead they tell you to follow the on Instagram or twitter.

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