Six years ago, a social networking site called Facebook was born. A social networking site that was designed to connect people all over the world, so that they could keep in touch and meet new people, through friends, friends of friends or just entirely new people. Facebook has managed to transform into something that can have an outcome on real situations.
Its main attraction over its competitors such as Myspace and Bebo, is an easier way to share photos with the use of 'tagging', this is what was identified as what the users would value most. Since then though it has come a long way and perhaps not planned to be so influencing and popular at first by inventors, comes groups that people can create and join and pages such as fan pages which users can become a fan of.
Facebook had a massive effect on the world last Christmas when a group was created in protest of X factor being the Christmas number 1. This particular group advertised a band called Rage Against the Machines and managed to get a massive 954,443 members and influenced them to boycott X factor being number 1 at Christmas for the 5th consecutive year. After winning the battle and sabotaging the Christmas number one, one retailer said it was a "truly remarkable outcome - possibly the greatest chart upset ever".
This is just an example of what sites like these are becoming capable of, especially when Facebook boasts over 350 million users, of which a vast majority spend hours a day on and some claim to be addicted, it is frightening to think what other effects social networking sites may be able to have.
"Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner in charts"(2009). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8423340.stm. accessed 25/3/10.
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