Facebook: What's So Appealing?

Facebook seems to have taken over the internet world of networking. Like MySpace, Facebook's users were mostly made up of people in their late teens and twenties. Now, Facebook has users ranging from their late teens to late sixties and seventies. The questions is, why has Facebook become so much more popular than MySpace, when they really almost seem to be the same thing. I believe Facebook is less complicated and more easy to use than MySpace, which is why the older generation, who claim they still know nothing about computers, can have a Facebook. It's easy to look up a "friend", write on a friend's "wall" and to share news, pictures, links, video, and music with friends. Facebook isn't as "fancy" as MySpace because it doesn't have the option of choosing backgrounds and different fonts and colors; this simplicity seems to draw users in.

Facebook has become a way for people to re-connect with old friends and stay in touch; it has also been used in schools; my National Honor Society used Facebook to remind it's members when meetings were and for general discussion. Although Facebook has been in the news lately for invasion of privacy, many people say that the privacy settings on Facebook are, for the most part, general and easy to set up; however, the people who don't use the privacy settings the proper way are the ones who usually end up with a "problem". Facebook, when used the right way, is a good social networking site where people all over the world can keep in touch with old and new friends.