Sarah McCullah
Owen Horten
Wrd 110
September 10, 2012
Facebook
You have to
start somewhere. Facebook, among many
other things, started out small. A
college student named Mark Zuckerburg decided to design a website for Harvard
students to be connected with and meet other Harvard students. This website was known as TheFacebook.
The first profile design for
facebook.
(http://web.appstorm.net/general/app-news/the-evolution-of-the-facebook-profile/)
TheFacebook went
online February 4, 2004. By March 31,
2004 TheFacebook expanded to other colleges around the Boston area. The first office for TheFacebook was located
in Palo Alto, California. They moved
there June 1, 2004. Not long after,
TheFacebook dropped the “the”, simplifying it to just facebook. In September of 2004 facebook and Mark
Zuckerburg got sued by ConnectU for the idea of facebook. Also around the same time, the biggest change
so far was made; the wall was added to facebook. Now people could write messages to their
friends others to see. Over the next two
years, facebook expanded to high schools and then to everyone over the age of
thirteen. According to the current
report, facebook now has over 955 million active users and it employs over
3,000 people.
I honestly
can’t remember what made me sign up for facebook. It is probably because my friends talked me
into it. So with that, on January 10,
2010 I officially become a facebook member.
Some of my friends were really shocked I had gotten one. My sister and one of my best friends posted
on my wall that day. My sister said,
“You’re stupid! Why did you make one of these things you don’t even get on
MySpace!” My friend Megan’s post said,
“ya gotta facebook! Yay… maybe, that’s if you get on it.” I had a MySpace because my friend had decided
to sign me up for it and I probably logged on less than ten times. She figured I would be the same way with
facebook, but I actually got on facebook and I started to like it. I loved being able to have such easy access
to my friends. It is a fun and
interesting way to keep up with what is going on in other people’s lives.
My favorite profile picture of my two
friends and I at a birthday party.
At the moment I am
using facebook to find out information about my grandparent’s house. A few days ago their house burnt completely
to the ground. The only thing that was
left standing was the chimney. My dad
had told me over the phone, but I have been keeping up on all the new
information from my family’s facebook posts.
From this…..
To this.
Facebook has
all those little games you can play and one of my best friends told me about
frontierville. I began to play it and I
really enjoyed it. I was practically
addicted to it. It was very
entertaining, you could have animals that you had to feed and you had to build
buildings. You had your own little town
and you could visit your friends’ little towns and “help” them. Although, for some reason I quit playing the
game and I have not really touched it since.
http://blog.games.com/2010/06/09/frontierville-everything-you-need-to-know-guide-facebook/
Now the only
thing I really use facebook for is to catch up with friends or to check on
family. I will be honest; sometimes I
will “stalk” people’s facebook pages or in other words just look at it to see
what they are up to. I usually only do
that if I have not talked to the person for quite a while. I like to know how they are doing. I actually reconnected my dad and a few of
his childhood friends through facebook.
My dad does not have a facebook, but one of his friends contacted me and
asked about him.
When it
comes down to it, I do not know how to do much with facebook. I have never uploaded a single picture on to
my profile. Either my friend did it for
me or I was tagged in someone else’s photo.
I tend to not update my status or post things on facebook. Most of the time I like to keep my thoughts
or actions to myself. I like to share my
feelings with my close friends and not my entire facebook friend list.
Technology
and I do not get along very well. We had
a terrible relationship. It is almost
like a love-hate relationship. I love it
because it helps me and makes life easier but it also can make me really
angry. I have trouble operating certain
things. I can do some stuff, but when it
comes to fixing things or trying to figure out a problem, I am no good. Most of the time I do not know how to do
something I ask someone else because I am afraid that if I attempt to do it,
something will go wrong and I will mess something up. For some reason I am not able to search
things on the internet very well. When I
have to write a research paper, it is so hard for me to find the information
that I need. I can spend an hour
searching for a piece of information that someone else can find in about five
minutes.
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