Facebook having reached one million users is impressive milestone. That’s about one twelfth of the world population. A somewhat smaller number of these people (about 400 million euros) on its own measure, active Facebook. If true, this is an alarming statistic. A recent study revealed an active member of Twitter for only 21 percent of its 75 million users. Statistics, such as Facebook are certainly attractive to advertisers and other partners Faceboook, but also an antiseptic. To truly understand the phenomenon of Facebook, and now we must agree, is a phenomenon, it is preferable to analyze real-world experiences. I turned to mine, to see how Facebook is used at home and how often the service appears in the talks.

In my daily life, it is rare that people are asking: “Should I let my children go on Facebook? There is no easy answer for that. Children under 12 years may not be on the site, although I know some people have created Facebook pages for their children (also created for their dogs, go figure). For tweens and young teens (up to, say, 16), tell me when the parents reach an agreement with their children that they can be in a position where you accept the father as a friend .

Again, the answer to the question above is less important than the fact that it is a question I ask myself many things. This is an important decision in people’s lives. How Facebook has become a rite of passage. It is quite similar to another ritual of modern life get their first cellphone. Tips for buying a phone is actually similar to the discussion on Facebook, but for reasons of brevity, I will not repeat here.

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Let’s see how Facebook has become ubiquitous in our lives. It is controversial, a joke, and will soon be a movie. It is the control is discussed endlessly in the news and blogs. In the service, is a well of endless water and meeting space, full of people carrying on the spirit of long conversations about everything and whatever happens in their lives. They often have in common and share some too. The fact that the quota is exceeded or not always understand the extent to which they share with the outside world, or how Facebook uses its information is a topic for another post. For what it’s worth, I think it is time for everyone to assume that the information shared in a social network friends and family to find a way out of the network. consider yourself lucky if you do not.

To better understand the power of Facebook, we’ll see how the service has infiltrated my life. My wife lives there. When I can not find my house, I know that probably set off the computer to update your Facebook status. When he got a new phone, his first question was whether I could download a Facebook application to update your status on the road. Just today, I learned she was heading for the beach, just because she posted on Facebook. She is not someone who is interested or concerned about the technology, but his Facebook page has become the story of our lives.

And this is true for most people on Facebook. When future historians will look at the time, they will find a treasure of a short journal entries, such as Facebook archived pages (one is the archiving of these things, right?). They will also have the richness of the response message, something that has never existed in the traditional media. This will give comments in context and a much more complete and colorful portrait of our everyday life. Clearly, images and videos are also there. Even the Facebook Markup capability will allow future generations the ability to identify the “unknown” face in a photo, even after we are all far.

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Clearly, several billion people are not yet on Facebook, as pointed out this recent article by CNN, the social network is a second or third level in many international markets. However, I am sure that Facebook will continue to grow in the U.S. and elsewhere. Why? I think the service valves in the need to rebuild something that we lost as families and friends between neighborhoods in close-knit neighborhoods and more isolated houses and even other countries. The need to connect remains paramount, and the ability to connect across all physical, cultural and linguistic diversity is high. Having a single platform where we can realize the ideal of a world community is attractive to people in the world. Facebook does not necessarily mean, but I bet you want to connect with people in the social network. If you live in Brazil and are on Orkut, but you want to connect to distant relatives in the United States is not at least try Facebook?

On the other hand, when I posted this article on CNN on Twitter for “Who is not on Facebook? Title, I have an ambitious set of answers. It was said he was” proud “of not use the service. I had no idea this was a badge of honor. “Others told me they had gone after the online video star and podcaster Leo Laporte left the service. Some of these people left after the recent tribulations of privacy on Facebook. I was, like most people I know. In fact, I do not know people outside my sector or are not active on Twitter, who left the service. Without doubt, these people exist, but I suspect that the number of deserters Facebook is very, very small.

Besides, I’m kind of trap Facebook. My favorite is the social network Twitter, and I feed my tweets to Facebook. However, I am increasingly aware that Twitter, which is great, but not rich enough depth, conversational interaction. There was no discussion and the pictures and video are distributed over a number of third party services. Twitter is a bigger problem, while Facebook is the conversation. To participate in these conversations, and connect with people who need more of an avatar in the stream of Twitter, who tend to spend more time on Facebook.

In other news from Facebook:

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has denied this week that he has signed over 84 per cent of the social networking site for a man of $ 1,000.

“If he says we were not sure, probably out of context because I think they were very confident that we have not signed a contract that says they are entitled to the property Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview on ABC, Diane Sawyer.

Last month, Paul continued over Ceglie Ceglie Zuckerberg Zuckerberg said it has signed a contract to deliver 50 percent of Facebook for $ 1,000. The contract includes a clause that would add 1 percent of property for each day past January 1, 2004, which was not live TheFacebook.com.

Facebook initially said the case was “frivolous”, but a lawyer of Facebook later told a judge he was “sure” if signed in the contract belonged to Zuckerberg. The CEO of 26 years, is now apparently satisfied that he did not sign the document.

Zuckerberg sat down with Sawyer to commemorate the fact that Facebook reached 500 million users, but also raised issues of privacy on the site, the variety of legal battles, and – especially – Site plans for a “disappointment button .

“We made mistakes for sure,” said Zuckerberg the privacy policies of the company. “I think they are much better.”

When asked why the information is not private by default, Zuckerberg reiterated its view that Facebook is “set in a way that helps people to share.” He said that “the right thing is to make sure the information is always private.”

A film about the origins of Facebook – and the legal battles continued with the co-founders of Zuckerberg – come to the theater later this year. When asked if he had done something different, Zuckerberg said yes, but also stressed he was only 19 years old at the time, so they were errors that occur.

“I think that rather than make the mistakes I’ve made mistakes I have made different,” he said.

Why Facebook reject an offer of $ 1 billion for Yahoo in 2006? “We do believe that and go in this direction would not help us to build what would be Facebook,” he said.

Finally, Zuckerberg said that the most requested “aversion” button is “certainly something that you think, but do not undertake to add to the site.