Written by Gary Griffin
In February 2004, a social networking site called Facebook was launched. It didn’t take long for Facebook to become extremely popular among college students and people of many ages. Facebook revolutionized social networking, and as of July 2010 there are more than 500 million active users. I, of course, joined Facebook in 2005 and was hooked from the start. It was a fantastic way of keeping up with long-lost friends and a way to meet new ones. Today, it is hard to find someone who is not a member of Facebook. The movie “The Social Network” was released Oct. 1 and quickly became the No. 1 movie in theaters right now. I was interested in seeing this movie because I wanted to know the story behind how Facebook was created. I was shocked to find out the drama behind the creation of Facebook. The movie was based around Mark Zuckerberg, who created Facebook. The movie showed how Mark came up with idea of Facebook and the struggles he faced during Facebook’s beginning stages. This movie was very entertaining and definitely shed some light for me on how Facebook got started.Facebook has revolutionized social networking and has become one of the biggest websites of our time. Facebook was initially started for college students but has grown to be popular among many different age groups, and I believe it will continue to grow for many years to come.
