Facebook Effect 2nd part pg 107-214

In the 2nd part of the Facebook effect by David Kirkpatrick, how Thefacebook got off the ground is being discussed. As all starting companies, Thefacebook needed investors to jump start the project. An investor named Warren Buffet came to Zuckerberg and Graham's office in Palo Alto, "He said the arrical of Buffet was a transformative moment in the life of the company" (108-109). What the investors like the most about Thefacebook was the audience it targeted and how much the audience interacted with the website on a daily basis. Like the poll on the Class Website now, the question is how often do you sign onto facebook. For the most part people sign on ATLEAST 3-5 times according to the poll but im sure that students check facebook more than that. American society is obsessed with social interaction and facebook, "...what drives them is their extreme interest in their friends - what they are doing, what they are thinking, and where they are going" (107). In Fall 2005, Thefacebook changed its name to Facebook and broadened its targeted audiences, "Facebook was no longer just a college phenomenon" (150). At this point, Facebook continues to grow at a rapid rate and sees no end of success. In 2006, the News Feed Application was added to Facebook. This allowed friends to see top news of what their friends were doing without having to go to their individual page "The News Feed would be a radical change. "It's not a new feature, it's a major a product evolution...It would remake Facebook" (182). At the end of the section we needed to read, Kirkpatrick talks about privacy on Facebook. He said, "The reality is that nothing on Facebook is really confidential. The company's own privacy policy is blunt on this score" (204). I have not read Facebook's privacy policy because i do not really care, but i agree with Kirkpatrick. We have discussed this in class one day, about how users are able to set their privacy options to who is able to see their information and what information they are allowed to access. But there are little ways here and there that your 'Face', info, and you personal matters you post on facebook to leak out to the world wide public. Facebook is not perfect and in terms of privacy i do not think it will ever be perfect. Americans need to learn that when you enter these types of societies where there is a mass number of people invloved, someway, somehow things you do not want strangers to know will get to them eventually. That is unless you do not put anything up in the first place.