Its taking over!

I log onto facebook and view my homepage to see whose said what, who’s posted what on facebook. The latest post from a friend on my list reads “Facebook ruins lives”, is this sentence familiar to any of you? It is to me. How about “People I will be deactivating my facebook account tonight at midnight never to return”. It never happens because we are just too addicted to facebook. I’ve tried deactivating my account and have so for several months, only to find myself somehow sucked back in again. Despite the fact people acknowledging their opinions about facebook, it’s still popular.

Facebook has become one of the most popular sites and will continue to be for a long time. I don’t know what it is that makes it so popular but people just can’t seem to stay away from it. According to facebook statistics there is more than 400 million active users, 50 per cent of active users log on to their account in any given day; 35 million users update their status each day, 5 billion pieces of content shared each week with 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month. Wow 3 billion photos, that is a lot.

The popularity of the site continues to grow; the growth of users from 2005 December was 5.5 million now to over 400 million active users in 2010. Facebook is not only set out to dominate the internet in the future but it is dominating it right now. It will continue to grow with members especially as technological advances will develop on the site making it more popular. It is a useful site as it has many things you can do. You can meet new people, chat, message, play games, post videos and pictures, make your own video and post it for your friends to see, comment on others posted content or their status, invite people to events, take quizzes and in general just see what people are up to. But it doesn’t end there even large corporations are using facebook to grow their businesses so they can reach out to a large audience.

Now thanks to the mobile phone it makes it easier for you to access facebook on the move. Whether you’re working, at school or just out and about if you have access to a mobile with internet I know you just won’t be able to resist but logon to you facebook account.