Facebook

Facebook has become a hot commodity with people of all ages over the past couple years. So much in fact that it has over five hundred million active users. The face book press room establishes that fifty percent of the five hundred million of active users log on to face book everyday. The average user of face book has 130 friends. What I found most ridiculous while reading the statistics of face book was, people spend over 700 billion minutes on face book each month! With all this time spent on face book, I’m afraid that people are spending to much time within a building, especially my generation. My generation seems to be addicted to every new technological advance there is. I feel that face book keeps people from actually going out and meeting new people, working, and keeps people from thinking outside the box. Once a person is addicted to face book, they tend to get on every waking moment they can, merely posting every activity or thought throughout there day. But if were spending so much time on Facebook, how can you actually live your life? But with over 900 million objects that people can interact with why wouldn’t you want to be on here? The average user is connected to over 80 community pages, groups, and events. On top of that the average users creates 90 pieces of content each month with more than 30 billion pieces of content shared each month! Being able to access all of this information/applications from your mobile device, added convenience to the users hand, which may have in fact been a great factor when it comes to the expansion of the site. However there are several good things that came from face book. First of all face book opened up a world wide communication network for meeting new people. In fact, there are more than 70 translations available on the site, and about 70% of Facebook users are outside of the United States. It takes over 300,000 users to help translate the site through certain applications on Facebook. Users being able to access this information while on the move, through mobile devices, allows people to be out and about, but it definitely keeps people from noticing there surroundings. Especially if they are texting and driving, which is a big down fall. Yet there are more than 150 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices, and the crazy thing is that people who access Facebook via mobile devices, are twice as active as non-mobile users. However, Facebook has opened up new opportunities for a profit margin in advertisement simply because of its popularity. The best part of advertisement is that it generally creates more demand in turn creating more jobs. With the United States in tough economic times, especially Michigan, these jobs will be greatly appreciated. In fact there are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products. Think about it, that’s 200 more people employed, and all though that’s throughout 60 countries it is also just for its mobile products. There is advertisement for nearly every industry around the world on Facebook. I guess what it all boils down to, is that it’s the users choice to decide when exactly is to much time spent on Facebook.