Friday, August 6, 2010

Time reflects on Facebook . . .

The May 31st issue of Time chronicled the social networking site Facebook that is redefining privacy according to the authors. A quick quote starts to put this phenomenon in perspective:

"Sometime in the next few weeks, Facebook will officially log its 500 millionth active citizen. If the website were granted terra firma, it would be the world's third largest country by population, two-thirds bigger than the U.S. More than 1 in 4 people who browse the Internet not only have a Facebook account but have returned to the site within the past 30 days."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1990582,00.html#ixzz0vrurlFt5

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