The Facebook Effect

The Facebook Effect

Over the past week or so, I've tried to gather some research of my own by going out and about with a friend of mine asking people what were their thoughts about social networking, and let me tell you now you'd be surprised at how fast people can run when they see someone with a clipboard!


 Although, I probably shouldn't of then ran after them :/

The people who didn't want to answer
my questionnaire and a red
dude.

Anyway, although I couldn't get any results, I took the time to read the book The Facebook Effect. The book talked about the growth and impact of Facebook and how it has made an irreversible impact on society, marketing and politics -- even facilitating political protests around the world in countries such as Colombia and Iran. I hadn't been able to read the entire book, but I was able to get an overall sense of Facebook and be able to get to know the social network better, and look forward to reading the rest.

Of course I cant copy the entire book onto this blog. Because I'm just lazy like that and there would probably be a copyright issue. But I did find this video on youtube for you related to it...

In this video Mark Zukerberg says ''Facebook is just a platform and the content is created by its members.''

This quote made me think up that maybe social networking has no negative or positives, maybe the negatives and positives are created by the people that utilise this media, but that then brings up the question of does this still make social networks responsible? As it is giving the people the tools, in some cases the murder weapon, to make something either really great or really disastrous. Although I'm mostly likely wrong and thinking too deeply about it :/

''I think that there is something to be pointed out here. These things may be true but they aren't in anyway facebook's fault. Thats the way that people chose to use the service thats provided to them. Nothing more.'' -Youtube user (0 likes)

''Facebook Is The place where people add you as a friend & walk past you in the street. Where relationships are perfect, affairs are started, & liars believe they are telling the truth. Your enemies visit your profile the most, yet your friends & family block you, &… even though you write what you are really thinking, someone always takes it the wrong way, & people think your status is about them...repost if you agree..... AHH sheeit ' thats SOOOOO true .''

- Youtube user (34 likes)

The Facebook effect. If you've read all of my very dull posts on this blog in order to understand social networking better (Lol good luck) well then I suggest you look at this video. This little bloke explains it all...

And whilst he was at it, Twitter too...

'Now FB has 800 million users, 300 million more than when this was posted. This FB nonsense has got to stop somewhere. It may be that one day, you can ONLY get hired if you're on FB, and what's on there pleases somebody. That's way to demonic for me to handle.'

                   -Youtube User (25 likes) 2 months ago

The Faceook effect.
A good book you could read.

Whilst researching Youtube for videos to learn from about social networking as only a good and dedicated media student does, I came across the above comment and it got me thinking about the new reality about being a person that society has now come across thanks to the social networking revolution. 'I am on Facebook, therefore I am.' Whether this is actually the new reality or not doesn't matter, what does matter is that many people believe this is the new reality, and many employers do now-a-days check an employee's social networks profiles and in some cases can lead to employee's being fired because of posts or pictures put up by that person. Hopefully, the power of social networking will never get so far as to someone ONLY getting hired because of how many friends they have on their facebook page, but in this video above 'The facebook effect' Mark Zukerberg couldn't say what Facebook would be like in 40 years. I thought it quite funny that Mark Zukerberg, the creator of Facebook, couldn't say what his social network would be like in 40 years but neither can any of us. I had a very hard time even defining social networking in my previous post let only even comprehend the power of social networking in the future and knowing that the overnight success Facebook creator couldn't either didn't exactly give me much hope or optimism. But you never know whether people will only get hired because of how many Facebook friends they have or whether they will only get hired because of how good there Farmville on Facebook is (which I must admit, mine is very impressive) as we just can't predict what the impact that social networking will have on us in even 5 years. But social networking has already played a part in political movements in such countries as Iran, Egypt and Columbia. Such a big impact that Egyptian citizens are now calling there children 'Facebook' to commemorate the role it played in the revolution.(And I thought my name was weird). I think this naming children after social networking just demonstrates how powerful they really are, although I think they shouldn't let the naming get out of hand though, I’d hate for little “Facebook” to have to share a classroom with a little “AOL,” or even worse a little “Yahoo.”


I mean who would've thought a Egyptian president for 40+ years would resign over a 2-week protest using the Internet? The internet, social networks in particular, are a pretty powerful tool if you ask me.

-This is quoted from myself.