Facebook Culture - Understanding Social Networking in 2010

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Social networking has been with us for a very long time. The caveman sitting with his fellow hunters in front of the fire and cooking and eating their latest kill was social networking.

Going to the pub for a drink after work with your workmates is social networking. Just about activity that you do with your friends and colleagues is social networking. So how is Facebook different?

Social networking is now online. All you need is a computer and an Internet connection. There are several sites that cater for just about every taste and requirement. Facebook is one of them. It is a free site open to anyone to join. You do this by setting up your account and creating a profile which contains as much or as little as you desire. You can put your picture up there, so that your new friends can see you and match your picture with your words.

Once you are signed in, you can begin looking for your friends and asking them to connect with you. From there, you can contact their friends and make more connections that way. As you can see, the snowball effect causes as your name to spread in all directions. If someone sees your name and picture, they can contact you and ask to be your "friend." You do not have to respond, you can accept or ignore the request as it suits you. It is entirely up to you.

Once you have agreed to be friends, you can read each other's pages. You can then post your latest news and photos for your friends' responses and read and comment on their latest postings. In this way, a social interaction quickly spreads among you and your friends wherever you may be, anywhere on the Internet. No charge. It is a wonderful way to make and keep friends all over the world.

You like playing games? You can play various games including scrabble with your friends any where, anytime. There is also an email account and instant messaging available if you want to converse privately with one particular friend only.

You can readily understand why Facebook is growing at an extraordinary fast rate. Facebook has over 500 million active users and increasing all the time.

So, if you are a social person, or would just like to be one, here is a wonderful way of meeting, albeit digitally, friends in the comfort and safety of your own home, at a time of your own choosing. It does not get any better than that. Try it, you might like it.

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Source by Brian M Ripley