Facevalue of Mark Zukerburg of Facebook

Assignment #2- Response to "Book Value"

So who is this "this cartographer of social connections" that bloggers speak of? Mr.Zuckerburg , a twentysomething Harvard graudate, has already been compared to Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple. Is Facebook really the next best thing since sliced....Google?

In my opinion, these bloggers are completely correct. I remember when Facebook first took off- I was only in high school at the time, and snubbed the idea of a website for "social connections", I didn't need the internet to connect me to my friends....did I?

However, as soon as I was ordering books and packing away photo albums for college, I was checking my friend's "status updates" on facebook. I had bit the bait- I was a facebook junkie. And it didn't take much- unlike Myspace, Facebook seemed to me to be so much more user friendly. Within a week, I had about 300 friends (I was even reconnected with some friends who lived abroad and had lost their contact info).

As embarassing as this is to admit, I think I check my facebook more than I check my email. Its so much more convient, and as a very visual person, more stimulating. Since I became a member in 2005, Facebook has now expanded to have more than 31 million members. Is this a trend that is doomed to fade out with my generation? Only time will tell....but until then, I'm going to keep "poking".