Social Networking

After reading a special report from The Economist on social networking it was brought to my attention just how popular and how technologically advanced our generation has become. According to the article A world of connections, there are 350 million people who are currently using the social networking site known as Facebook. That number is growing everyday. I found it unbelievable that that many people could be connected by a single website and be able to contact each other if they so desired through this site. I always thought of Facebook, MySpace, and even just recently Twitter as the younger generations type of sites. I found them to just be places where friends could keep in touch with friends and post pictures and just keep in touch and communicate with one another online. Although, I'm coming to find that all different types of people are using these sites for all different kinds of reasons. Businesses and business people are using these sites for networking purposes, advertising purposes, and even adults are logging into these sites in order to explore what they have to offer. Every day we are gaining more and more knowledge and becoming more of a technologically advanced world, that I am very curious as to what device, website or service is going to come out next in order to further our advancement.